Quotes About Philosophy

And the true order of going, or being led by another, to the things of love, is to begin from the beauties of earth.

If love wasn't the law of life, life would not have persisted in the midst of death.

Look, there's no metaphysics on earth but chocolates.

Now I beg of you to tell me whether I must love a human being simply because he exists or resembles me and whether for those reasons alone I must suddenly prefer him to myself?

I also think that life itself is both indifferent to us and the source of all of our joys and everything that we love. And it's necessary to accept the one in order to love the other.

It answers the question that was tormenting you: my love, you are not 'one thing in my life' - not even the most important - because my life no longer belongs to me because...you are always me.

I feel some part of me can wake up and be very existential and the next day wake up and be sort of in love with the universe.

...for the object of education is to teach us to love beauty.

We are funny creatures. We don't see the stars as they are, so why do we love them? They are not small gold objects, but endless fire.

Drop the idea that attachment and love are one thing. They are enemies. It is attachment that destroys all love.

Beware of solipsism Funny word. Sounds like it means "love of melons" or something. I looked it up. It means believing that "the self is the only reality." Am I solipsist?

If you don't know how to live, why wonder about death?

Love is a grave mental illness.

Had there been no Plato, the Christians would have had a harder time selling the idea that all God really wanted from us was fraternal love.

I believe in the mystery, and I don't want to take it any further than that. Maybe what I mean by that is love.

It is a curious fact that with every great revolutionary movement the question of 'free love' comes into the foreground.

If you are a taker of happiness you get misery, if you are a giver of happiness you get joy and love.

Self-interest, or rather self-love, or egoism, has been more plausibly substituted as the basis of morality.

... For such as truly love the world, a thousand years would fade like the dream of one night.

If love eats the donut, does time eat the hole?

Once you learn how to die you learn how to live.

Some thoughts always find us young, and keep us so. Such a thought is the love of the universal and eternal beauty.

Self-love . . . is the sole antagonist of virtue, leading us constantly by our propensities to self-gratification in violation of our moral duties to others.

The Communists have no need to introduce free love; it has existed almost from time immemorial.