Philosophical quotes

Short lines worth testing against your own assumptions.

“The unexamined life is not worth living.”
Socrates

“One is not born, but rather becomes, a woman.”
Simone de Beauvoir

“In the depth of winter, I finally learned that there was in me an invincible summer.”
Albert Camus

“You have power over your mind, not outside events.”
Marcus Aurelius

“I think, therefore I am.”
Rene Descartes

“Act only according to that maxim by which you can at the same time will that it should become a universal law.”
Immanuel Kant

“The beginning is the most important part of the work.”
Plato

“I do not wish them to have power over men; but over themselves.”
Mary Wollstonecraft

“We are what we repeatedly do.”
Aristotle

“The life of the dead is placed in the memory of the living.”
Cicero

“No man's knowledge here can go beyond his experience.”
John Locke

“Man is condemned to be free.”
Jean-Paul Sartre

“Whereof one cannot speak, thereof one must be silent.”
Ludwig Wittgenstein