Quotes on Philosophical

Nanny's philosophy of life was to do what seemed like a good idea at the time, and do it as hard as possible. It had never let her down.

Love is an ideal thing, marriage a real thing

You must become an old man in good time if you wish to be an old man long.

Perhaps there are none more lazy, or more truly ignorant, than your everlasting readers.

Death, like birth, is a secret of Nature.

And thou wilt give thyself relief, if thou doest every act of thy life as if it were the last.

Men exist for the sake of one another.

Be content to seem what you really are.

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

Life is neither good or evil, but only a place for good and evil.

Everything that happens happens as it should, and if you observe carefully, you will find this to be so.

Look within. Within is the fountain of good, and it will ever bubble up, if thou wilt ever dig.

To finish the moment, to find the journey's end in every step of the road, to live the greatest number of good hours, is wisdom.

The past has no power over the present moment.

We must no more ask whether the soul and body are one than ask whether the wax and the figure impressed on it are one.

Thou wilt find rest from vain fancies if thou doest every act in life as though it were thy last.

Even when laws have been written down, they ought not always to remain unaltered.

The young are permanently in a state resembling intoxication.

Love is the only sane and satisfactory answer to the problem of human existence.

If one way be better than another, that you may be sure is nature's way.

Bad men are full of repentance.