Your Favorite Philosophical Quote!

[JaneYoung]

I've spent the last couple of days sifting through some of my favorite quotes that I try to live by.

Here's one:
I find hope in the darkest days and focus in the brightest. I do not judge the universe. - Dalai Lama

Here's a second:
Most people are about as happy as they make up their minds to be. - Abraham Lincoln

[Mister_Juggles]

Here's one I came up with to be funny, but it *does* actually have real life applications, hehe.

"Sometimes you have to hit someone in the Metaphorical Face with the Shovel of Reality. Unfortunately for them, the Metaphorical Face is slightly behind the normal one, so you have to hit extra hard."

[Protronie]

It is what it is...so be it - unknown trucker late at night.

[Necrogigas]

"There's no such thing as stupid questions, only stupid people."

[amos229]

One ring to rule them all. Lord of the Rings

[DCA Fan]

In the part of this universe that we know there is great injustice, the good suffer, the wicked prosper, and one hardly knows which of those is the more annoying.
- Bertrand Russell

[Kyle]

" If you Don't live for something then you die for Nothing." -Unknown but it is said by and tattooed on many Fire/EMS, Police and Military people, and soon to be me also.

[EddieMcD]

"Only fools are quoted."

I've been waiting a while to use that one.

[Weepy]

"An inch of time is an inch of gold"
"A witty saying proves nothing"

Philosophy has basically ripped itself apart in this day and age. It's very funny to see professors in philosophy babble on and contradict themselves when faced with the Socratic method.

[Zero-Bee]

These are a few I thought up myself.

"People will never accept your line of thinking unless you destroy theirs. Don't use your own logic first, but use the their own argument against them."

"You have to have an optomistic attitude if you ever want anything good to happen."

"What's the point in arguing about something you can't change or has little to no effect on you? Trust me, you sleep much better at night if you don't think about it."

"Sometimes, it's hard being this awesome."

[CCCP]

[Akash Rastogi]

I was reading up on the history of the Olympic Games, this isn't philosophic or anything but....

The Olympic Creed
Pierre de Coubertin got the idea for this phrase from a speech given by Bishop Ethelbert Talbot at a service for Olympic champions during the 1908 Olympic Games. The Olympic Creed reads:

The Olympic Creed
The most important thing in the Olympic Games is not to win but to take part, just as the most important thing in life is not the triumph but the struggle. The essential thing is not to have conquered but to have fought well.

[lingomaniac88]

"It is common sense to take a method and try it. If it fails, admit it frankly and try another. But above all, try something."
- Franklin Delano Roosevelt

"Why not assume that the best-case scenario is true?"
- Jonathan Coulton

[Jeff K.]

"If everything is under control, you're not going fast enough."
-Mario Andretti

"I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have."
-Benjamin Franklin
I used that as my senior year quote.

[Carlee10]

"Speak softly and carry a big stick..."-Teddy Roosevelt I don't particularly agree with it, but its clever and really simple.
I also love the quote in my signature....it applies to me almost daily, and to other people, too.