Quotes About Philosophy

The fundamental fact about him was that he viewed the world through Marxism.

Life is a waste of time, and time is a waste of life,' he said. 'So let's get wasted all of the time, and have the time of our life.

You wonder about that sometimes, you wonder what happens when you die in your sleep. Do you carry on dreaming, does the moment of death expand to fill the void so that the dream goes on forever, or does it just fade to black? And if it goes on forever, does it matter whether the dream was a pleasant one or a nightmare? Would one be heaven and the other hell?

Their rule is 'Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the law.

The happy life is regarded as a life in conformity with virtue. It is a life which involves effort and is not spent in amusement." —Aristotle, from The Nicomachean Ethics

One man asked another on the death of a mutual friend, "How much did he leave?" His friend responded, "He left it all.

Basing our happiness on our ability to control everything is futile. While we do control our choice of action, we cannot control the consequences of our choices.

Principles are the simplicity on the far side of complexity.

Management, remember, is clearly different from leadership. Leadership is primarily a high-powered, right brain activity. It's more of an art; it's based on a philosophy. You have to ask the ultimate questions of life when you're dealing with personal leadership issues.

Quality literature, such as the Great Books, the Harvard Classics

Discipline derives from disciple—disciple to a philosophy, disciple to a set of principles, disciple to a set of values, disciple to an overriding purpose, to a superordinate goal or a person who represents that goal.

Stephen R. Covey

Nietzsche: "He who has a 'why' can live with any 'what.'" Dr. Frankl hypothesized that we have three parts to our nature: our body, our mind, and our spirit. But his deepest conviction is that most—not all—diseases originate in the spirit. That is, in a sense of meaninglessness, a sense of hollowness, a sense of purposelessness. No mission. No vision.

Covey believed that timeless principles do indeed exist, and that the search for them is not folly, but wisdom

Mortal lives are not stones. They are not seas. For impermanence to judge itself by the standards of permanence is folly. Or it is arrogance. Life merely is what it is, neither more nor less. To deem it less because it is not more is to heed the counsels of the Despiser.

That beauty and truth should pass utterly

Are you alive?" "Perhaps. While I have purpose, I move and speak. My eyes behold. Is this life?

Futility is the defining characteristic of life. Pain is the proof of existence.

What I have done is to show that it is possible for the way the universe began to be determined by the laws of science. In that case, it would not be necessary to appeal to God to decide how the universe began. This doesn't prove that there is no God, only that God is not necessary.

Sólo hay una manera de evitar la crítica: no hacer nada, no decir nada, y no ser nada. ARISTÓTELES, FILÓSOFO

Lo que realmente da forma a nuestra vida es el significado que damos a las cosas. ANTHONY ROBBINS, ORADOR MOTIVACIONAL

Nadie en el mundo está completamente equivocado. Incluso un reloj parado está en lo correcto dos veces al día. PAULO COELHO, ESCRITOR

A wise person once said that the past cannot be changed. Only the future is in our power." "I prefer what Napoleon said. If we open a quarrel between past and present, we shall find that we have lost the future.

Faith was the death of reason. Faith relied on blind allegiance, without thought, only an unquestioned belief.