Philosophers

"Here is a test to see if your mission on earth is finished. If you are alive, it isn't." ~ Francis Bacon

Philosophy begins in wonder. ~ Plato

If I had a philosophy, it's that I support the beautiful side of anarchy. ~ Bjork

Be content with what you have; rejoice in the way things are. When you realize there is nothing lacking, the whole world belongs to you. ~ Lao Tzu

If you will take my advice you will think little of Socrates, and a great deal more of truth. ~ Socrates

Everything is flux. ~ Heraclitus

One change leaves the way open for the introduction of others. ~ Niccolo Machiavelli  

All men by nature desire to know. ~ Aristotle

I think, therefore I am. (cogito ergo sum). ~ Descartes

All things excellent are as difficult as they are rare. ~ Benedict De Spinoza

For in every ill turn of fortune the most unhappy sort of misfortune is to have been happy. ~ Boethius

I deepen my experience of God through prayer, meditation, and forgiveness. ~ Marianne Williamson

It may be argued that peoples for whom philosophers legislate are always prosperous. ~ Aristotle

"Time heals what reason cannot." ~ Seneca

New opinions are always suspected, and usually opposed, without any other reason but because they are not already common. ~ John Locke

When we face problems with compassion, sincerity, and good motivation, our solutions may take longer, but ultimately they are better. ~ Dalai Lama

The unexamined life is not worth living. ~ Socrates

I have a philosophy that everything you write doesn't have to be good for everybody. There are going to be people that get irritated by some of the things I write--including my parents. And then there are going to be people that you draw in because of the pointedness of certain things. ~ Sheryl Crow

What the first philosopher taught the last will have to repeat. ~ Henry David Thoreau

God, of course, is the greatest philosopher of all. ~ Richard Nixon,

When there is no more separation between 'this' and 'that,' it is called the still-point of the Tao. At the still point in the center of the circle one can see the infinite in all things. ~ Chuang Tzu