Top Ten Greatest Philosophical Quotes

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1) The Book of Job: Remember: life is a breath; Soon i will vanish from your sight.The eye that looks will not see me; You may search but i will be gone. Like a cloud fading in the sky, Man dissolves into death. And never comes home again.

2) Aristotle: Happiness is something final and complete in itself, As being the aim and end of practical activities whatever... Happiness then we define as the active exercise of the mind In conformity with perfect goodness or virtue

3) Plato: There will be no end to the troubles of states,Or of humanity itself,Till philosophers become kings in this world,Or till those we now call kings and rulers really And truly become philosophers,

4) Albert Camus: It was previously a question Of finding out whether or not life Has to have a meaning to be lived. It now becomes clear, on the contrary That it will be lived all the better if it has no meaning

5) Forrest Gump: Life is like a box of chocolates, you never know what you're gonna get

6) Albert Camus: If there is one thing one can always yearn for And sometimes attain, it is human love

7) Gandhi: Live simply that others may simply live

8) Pascal: It is the heart which perceives God and not the reason. That is what faith is: God perceived by the heart, not the reason

9) Socrate: My advice to you is to get married: Iif you find a good wife you'll be happy; If not, you'll become a philosophe

10) Henry David Thoreau: To be a philosopher is not merely to have subtle thoughts, Nor even to found a school, But so to love wisdom as to live according to its dictates, A life of simplicity, independence, magnanimity, and trust