Quotes About Philosophy

If the past can't be changed, and the future's already written; what's the point in living?

I think, therefore a single fertilized egg cell can replicate itself into trillions of specialized and exquisitely organized cells.

Mi sebi rado postavljamo metafizi?ka pitanja o svijetu, životu i ?ovjeku. A trebali bismo iznova i stalno pitati: zašto s tolikim naporom i mukom živimo, kad znamo da ?emo ovdje biti samo jednom i kad imamo tako kratko i neponovljivo vrijeme u ovom neopisivo lijepom svijetu?

To greed, all nature is insufficient.

That grief is light which can take counsel.

Light griefs are plaintive , but great ones are dumb

Retirement without the love of letters is a living burial.

Life, if well lived, is long enough.

No man was ever wise by chance.

Precepts or maxims are of great weight; and a few useful ones at hand do more toward a happy life than whole volumes that we know not where to find.

Drunkenness is nothing but voluntary madness.

As was his language so was his life.

He will live ill who does not know how to die well.

Life without the courage for death is slavery.

Men do not care how nobly they live, but only how long, although it is within the reach of every man to live nobly, but within no man's power to live long.

One should count each day a separate life.

The arts are the servant; wisdom its master.

This is the reason we cannot complain of life; it keeps no one against his wll.

To be always fortunate, and to pass through life with a soul that has never known sorrow, is to be ignorant of one half of nature.

We should conduct ourselves not as if we ought to live for the body, but as if we could not live without it.

What does reason demand of a man A very easy thing: to live in accord with his nature.

Calamity is virtue's opportunity.

Ugliness is in a way superior to beauty because it lasts.

Mieux vaut pleurer de rien Que de rire de tout.