Philosophy quotes worth following to the source.

“When something happens, the only thing in your power is your attitude toward it”

“The man who has anticipated the coming of troubles takes away their power when they arrive”

“To make the best of what is in our power, and take the rest as it occurs”

“Do what you will. Even if you tear yourself apart, most people will continue doing the same things”

“Only through suffering can we grasp the essence of life”

“True happiness is to enjoy the present, without anxious dependence upon the future”

“We are mistaken when we look forward to death; the major portion of death has already passed. Whatever years be behind us are in death's hands”

“A man's as miserable as he thinks he is”

“The price of excellence is continuous practice”

“Man's duty is to improve himself; to cultivate his mind; and, when he finds himself going astray, to bring the moral law to bear upon himself”

“Our cognitive faculty feels an infinitely higher satisfaction in the resolution of a problem than in its mere contemplation”

“What cannot be doubted must be true”

“The longer a man’s fame is to last, the later it will begin”

“No one can lose either the past or the future - how could anyone be deprived of what he does not possess?”

“Character is simply habit long continued”

“Perfect numbers like perfect men are very rare”

“Emotion, which is suffering, ceases to be suffering as soon as we form a clear and precise picture of it”

“Learn to distinguish what you can and cannot control”

“Our duties naturally emerge from our relationships”

“The judge of all things should be neutral, and a wise person is a neutral judge”

“Consider that before long you will be nobody and nowhere”

“The object of life is not to be on the side of the majority, but to escape finding oneself in the ranks of the insane”

“Music is a moral law. It gives soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination”

“Self-conquest is the greatest of victories”

“The superior man wishes to be slow in his speech and earnest in his conduct”

“The soul is dyed by the thoughts. Dye it, then, in a succession of thoughts that bring tranquility and joy”

“Be cheerful also, and seek not external help nor the tranquility others give”

“Education in music is most sovereign because more than anything else rhythm and harmony find their way to the inmost soul”

“What is existence for but to be laughed at if men in their twenties have already attained the utmost?”

“A thinker erects an enormous building, a system, embracing the whole of existence, world history, etc., and if his personal life is considered, he himself lives in a shed”

“The more one has suffered, the better one understands”

“To have faith is to lose your mind and win God”

“What we call worldliness simply consists of such people who, if one may so express it, pawn themselves to the world”

“The aim of education is to make the pupil like and dislike what he ought”

“The final cause is both first and last”

“Happiness is a chimera that retreats as we approach”

“He who exercises government by means of his virtue may be compared to the north polar star, which keeps its place and all the stars turn towards it”

“If the superior man lacks gravitas, then he will not inspire respect”

“No man ever threw away life while it was worth keeping”

“Reading and sauntering and lounging and dosing, which I call thinking, is my supreme happiness”

“True philosophy embraces skeptical doubt”

“It is our attitude toward events, not events themselves, which we can control”

“The past is gone, the future is not here, but the present is forever”

“Who can attain to anything great if he does not feel in himself the force and will to inflict great pain?”

“There is no such thing as moral phenomena, but only a moral interpretation of phenomena”

“Care about what other people think and you will always be their prisoner”

“The ruling power within, when it is in its natural state, is so related to outer circumstances”

“Wonder is the feeling of the philosopher, and philosophy begins in wonder”

“In poverty and other misfortunes of life, true friends are a sure refuge”

“Wishing to be friends is quick work, but friendship is a slow ripening fruit”

“It is during our darkest moments that we must focus to see the light”

“Poetry is finer and more philosophical than history; for poetry expresses the universal, and history only the particular”

“The nature of the divine thought is not of possessing but of activity”

“Every man takes the limits of his own field of vision for the limits of the world”

“We are like shipwrecked sailors clinging to a raft of illusion”

“Learning without thought is labor lost; thought without learning is perilous”

“All the perceptions of the human mind resolve themselves into two distinct kinds, impressions and ideas”

“The identity which we ascribe to the mind of man is only a fictitious one”

“The beginning of philosophy is the recognition of the conflict between opinions”

“Every achievement, every step forward in knowledge, follows from courage”

“Man is something that shall be overcome”

“Our highest insights must—and should—sound like follies”

“What does your conscience say? You shall become the person you are”

“Man must develop his tendency towards the good”

“The higher the sun rises, the less shadow it casts”

“The master does nothing yet he leaves nothing undone”

“Begin each day by telling yourself: Today I shall be meeting with interference, ingratitude, insolence, disloyalty, ill-will, and selfishness”

“The just man does not permit the several elements within him to interfere with one another”

“The true pilot must pay attention to the year and seasons and sky and stars and winds”

“A democracy exists whenever those who are free and poor are in sovereign control of the government”

“Matter exists potentially, form actually”

“The wise man seeks contentment, not ecstasy”

“Time is a condition of the will and representation”

“The mind's power is defined by knowledge alone”

“The superior man acts before he speaks, and afterwards speaks according to his actions”

“I cannot believe in a God who wants to be praised all the time”

“The most fundamental form of human stupidity is forgetting what we were trying to do in the first place”

“The ultimate destiny of the human race is moral perfection”

“To think for oneself means to seek the supreme touchstone of truth in oneself”

“A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step”

“A terrace nine stories high begins with a pile of earth”

“If you would have a thing shrink, you must first stretch it”

“Adapt yourself to the things among which your lot has been cast”

“Be not careless in deeds, nor confused in words, nor rambling in thought”

“Nothing happens to any man that he is not formed by nature to bear”

“No man undertakes a trade he has not learned, even the meanest; yet everyone thinks himself sufficiently qualified for the hardest of all trades, that of government”

“The more unintelligent a man is, the less mysterious existence seems to him”

“Freedom is the recognition of necessity”

“The superior man is quiet and serene. The inferior man is always embroiled in some trouble”

“To see what is right and not do it is the worst cowardice”

“Imagination has unbounded liberty in combining ideas”

“What we fear most is not death, but suffering without meaning”

“Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished”

“The wise man views gain and loss the same way”

“The firm, the enduring, the simple, and the modest are near to virtue”

“For peace to reign on Earth, humans must evolve into new beings who have learned to see the whole first”

“The principle of autonomy is the sole principle of morals”

“Mathematics is a more powerful instrument of knowledge than any other that has been bequeathed to us by human agency”

“An emotion which is a passion ceases to be a passion as soon as we form a clear and distinct idea of it”

“Interest is the first mover of the human mind”

“No action can be virtuous unless it proceeds from a virtuous motive”

“The wise man achieves without action and teaches without words”

“When I let go of what I am, I become what I might be”

“I was afraid that by observing objects with my eyes and trying to comprehend them with each of my other senses I might blind my soul altogether”

“Most men are so thoroughly subjective that nothing really interests them but themselves”

“The power of external causes infinitely surpasses human power”

“Things which agree in nothing can neither be understood through one another”

“The superior man does not promote a man simply because of his words”

“Contentment is natural wealth, luxury is artificial poverty”

“The good which a man desires for himself and loves, he will love more constantly if he sees that others love it also”

“They must often change who would be constant in happiness or wisdom”

“The concept of duty contains in it that of a good will”

“The good will shines like a jewel for its own sake”

“Begin at once to live, and count each separate day as a separate life”

“Brave men rejoice in adversity, just as brave soldiers triumph in war”

“Men will find that they can prepare with mutual aid much more easily what they need”

“Things which are accidentally the causes of hope or fear are called good or evil omens”

“No testimony is sufficient to establish a miracle, unless the testimony be of such a kind, that its falsehood would be more miraculous than the fact which it endeavors to establish”

“Is life not a thousand times too short for us to bore ourselves?”

“Rhetoric is the art of enchanting the soul”

“The union of mind and body is best understood by not understanding it”

“The imperative of understanding: that one must not merely understand the true but must also understand the false in the true”

“True insight comes from solitude and contemplation”

“Look closely. The beautiful may be small”

“What we pray for is not so important as the fact that we do pray”

“Life in accordance with reason is best and pleasantest”

“A just knowledge of human nature is the only solid foundation for moral science”

“The study of virtue has become a study of ideas, instead of a way of life”

“We should not, like sheep, follow the herd of creatures in front of us”

“If evil exists, it exists either in gods or in men”

“Life is a mystery to be lived, not a problem to be solved”

“The truth is lived before it is understood”

“The part of life we really live is small”

“People understand me so poorly that they don't even understand my complaint about them not understanding me”

“To know what people really think, pay attention to what they do, rather than what they say”

“Knowledge is true opinion combined with definition or rational explanation”

“Love is born into every human being; it calls back the halves of our original nature together”

“All wars are fought for the sake of getting money”

“He is richest who is content with the least”

“All science is certain, evident knowledge. We reject all knowledge which is merely probable”

“The poets are only the interpreters of the gods”

“Living well and beautifully and justly are all one thing”

“The fewer our wants the more we resemble the gods”

“I desire to live in peace and to continue the life I have begun under the motto 'to live well you must live unseen'”

“The highest good is a mind that scorns the happenings of chance”

“I have striven not to laugh at human actions, not to weep at them, nor to hate them, but to understand them”

“At last I will devote myself sincerely and without reservation to the general demolition of my opinions”

“The spirit ought to be brought up for examination daily”

“The greatest pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do”

“The conveniences of life are not to be secured through anger or impatience”