Throughout history, the laurels of philosophy have been dominated by men. But women philosophers, contrary to popular belief have thrived throughout history and given us many theories to think about. Here we have listed 50 quotes from famous female philosophers for you.
1- You cannot find peace by avoiding life.
2- For most of history, Anonymous was a woman.
3- The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.
- Eleanor Roosevelt, Activist
4- If you judge people, you have no time to love them.
- Mother Theresa, Social Worker
5- She had been forced into prudence in her youth, she learned romance as she grew older—the natural sequence of an unnatural beginning.
- Jane Austen, Novelist
6- Sometimes questions are more important than answers.
-Nancy Willard, American Poet
7- “One is not born, but rather becomes, a woman.”
- Simone de Beauvoir, The second sex
8- “When a man gives his opinion, he's a man. When a woman gives her opinion, she's a bitch.”
9- “Reserve your right to think, for even to think wrongly is better than not to think at all.”
- Hypatia
10- I do not wish them [women] to have power over men, but over themselves.
11- 'No man chooses evil because it is evil; he only mistakes it for happiness, the good he seeks.’
12- "Change your life today. Don't gamble on the future, act now, without delay."
13- Man is defined as a human being and a woman as a female - whenever she behaves as a human being she is said to imitate the male.
14- “No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.”
15- Poets are the only people to whom love is not only a crucial but an indispensable experience, which entitles them to mistake it for a universal one.
16- Revolutionaries do not make revolutions. The revolutionaries are those who know when power is lying in the street and then they can pick it up.
17- If all men are born free, how is it that all women are born slaves?
18- “We don't see things as they are, we see them as we are.”
19- “I had rather die in the adventure of noble achievements, than live in obscure and sluggish security.”
- Margaret Cavendish, The Blazing World
20- "Knowledge is no guarantee of good behavior, but ignorance is a virtual guarantee of bad behavior."
21- We live in a fantasy world, a world of illusion. The great task in life is to find reality.
22- Falling out of love is chiefly a matter of forgetting how charming someone is.
23- All sins are attempts to fill voids.
24- The intelligent man who is proud of his intelligence is like the condemned man who is proud of his large cell.
25- The future is made of the same stuff as the present.
26- 'You can avoid reality, but you cannot avoid the consequences of avoiding reality.'
- Ayn Rand
27- 'A creative man is motivated by the desire to achieve, not by the desire to beat others.'
- Ayn Rand
28 - Throughout the centuries there were men who took first steps, down new roads, armed with nothing but their own vision.
- Ayn Rand
29- Learn to value yourself, which means: to fight for your happiness.
- Ayn Rand
30- “To lead a human life, a man must have a notion of himself as having a past and a future.”
- Mary Warnock, Imagination and Time
31- “Do not accept anything as love which lacks truth.”
32- “All those who seek truth, seek God, whether this is clear to them or not.”
33- "In order to go on living one must try to escape the death involved in perfectionism"
34- “To love, to derive joy from life, to learn the wonder of being: these are, I offer, the apotheosis of a good life, one that everyone can achieve—and one that, perhaps, even a philosopher can appreciate.”
- Eva Feder Kittay, Learning from My Daughter: The Value and Care of Disabled Minds
36- The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched - they must be felt with the heart.
37- The past is the anchor that weighs us down.
40- I’m no longer accepting the things I cannot change… I’m changing the things I cannot accept.
41- “Life's under no obligation to give us what we expect. We take what we get and are thankful it's no worse than it is.”
- Margaret Mitchell, Gone with the Wind
43-'If you're silent about your pain, they'll kill you and say you enjoyed it.'
44- Walking with a friend in the dark is better than walking alone in the light.
46- There are more tears shed over answered prayers than over unanswered prayers.
47- I do not fear Satan half so much as I fear those who fear him.
48- For prayer is nothing else than being on terms of friendship with God.
49- “But luxury has never appealed to me, I like simple things, books, being alone, or with somebody who understands.”
50- "Growing up is losing some illusions, in order to acquire others."
Thank you for reading.
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