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Quotes About Life

Philosophy... is the creative perception by the spirit of the meaning of human existence.
~ Nikolai Berdyaev
In scorn of nature, art gave lifeless life.
~ William Shakespeare
Nothing is easier than to simplify life and them make a philosophy about it. The trouble is that the resulting philosophy is true only of that simplified life.
~ Walter Lippmann
Life in the true sense is perceiving or thinking.
~ Aristotle
I think that there is nothing, not even crime, more opposed to poetry, to philosophy, ay, to life itself than this incessant business.
~ Henry David Thoreau
It is our philosophical set of the sail that determines the course of our lives. To change our current Direction, we have to change our philosophy, not our circumstances.
~ Jim Rohn
Gods induction, life's construction, these instruct will save every living thing. Can't you see that life's connected?
~ Stevie Wonder
If you want to find the answers to the Big Questions about your soul, you'd best begin with the Little Answers about your body.
~ George A. Sheehan
What if life is just a cosmic joke, like spiders in your underwear.
~ Jimmy Buffett
A sound philosophy of life, I think, may be the most valuable asset for a psychiatrist to have when he is treating a patient.
~ Viktor E. Frankl
What one decides to do in crisis depends on one's philosophy of life, and that philosophy cannot be changed by an incident. If one hasn't any philosophy in crises, others make the decision.
~ Jeannette Rankin
I do not imply that this philosophy of land was always clear to me. It is rather the end result of a life journey.
~ Aldo Leopold
All Philosophy is Biography
~ Peter J. Carroll
Life is sweet, life is also very short.
~ Natalie Merchant
The greatest mystery the universe offers is not life but Size.
~ Stephen King, The Gunslinger
Whence? wither? why? how? - these questions cover all philosophy.
~ Joseph Joubert
We're beings toward death, we're … two-legged, linguistically-conscious creatures born between urine and feces whose body will one day be the culinary delight of terrestrial worms.
~ Cornel West
It takes billions of years to create a human being. And it takes only a few seconds to die.
~ Jostein Gaarder, Maya
It was a great thing to be a human being. It was something tremendous. Suddenly I'm conscious of a million sensations buzzing in me like bees in a hive. Gentlemen, it was a great thing.
~ Karel Capek
Life is just a bag of pot.
~ Iggy Pop
It is absolutely the central theme in my design philosophy - that life is erotic, period. The female body is one of the most extraordinary designs ever done in this universe.
~ Luigi Colani
Death is nothing to us: for that which is dissolved is without sensation; and that which lacks sensation is nothing to us.
~ Epicurus
Happiness is not the end of life: character is.
~ Henry Ward Beecher
One cannot live through a long stretch of years without forming some philosophy of life.
~ Clarence Darrow