Quotes About Philosophy

There is no love of life without despair of life.

Why do people have to love people anyway?

What if you love knowledge for its own sake, not necessarily as a blueprint to action? What if you wish there were more, not fewer reflective types in the world?

…we can not love or think except in fragments of time each of which goes along its own trajectory and immediately disappears.

What is the meaning of life? It is too great a phenomenon to fit into any meaning.

We are not especially 'interested in' animals. Neither of us had ever been inordinately fond of dogs, cats, or horses in the way that many people are. We didn't 'love' animals.

He who merely knows right principles is not equal to him who loves them.

The most important principle of divine philosophy is the oneness of the world of humanity, the unity of mankind, the bond conjoining East and West, the tie of love which blends human hearts.

If you must love your neighbor as yourself, it is at least as fair to love yourself as your neighbor.

The problem of reconciling human suffering with the existence of a God who loves, is only insoluble so long as we attach a trivial meaning to the word "love."

Retirement without the love of letters is a living burial.

Being in love, as both Plato and David Bowie have pointed out, is horrible.

The stage is a supplement to the pulpit, where virtue, according to Plato's sublime idea, moves our love and affection when made visible to the eye.

The only way to truly conquer something, as every great philosopher and geneticist will tell you, is to love it.

Heaven begat Virtue in me; what can man do unto me?

Life's meaning has always eluded me and I guess always will. But I love it just the same.

Don't you ever worry about the future?" I asked. Jack shrugged. "This is the future," he said.

if there is an afterlife, then nothing here mattered, and if there isn't an afterlife, nothing here mattered.

Conventions need have no rationale apart from the rationale of having a convention.

The purpose of life, as far as I can tell… is to find a mode of being that's so meaningful that the fact that life is suffering is no longer relevant.

we are increasingly falling prey to the desperation of meaninglessness,

Behavior is imitated, then abstracted into play, formalized into drama and story, crystallized into myth and codified into religion—and only then criticized in philosophy, and provided, post-hoc, with rational underpinnings

The prideful, rational mind, comfortable with its certainty, enamoured of its own brilliance, is easily tempted to ignore error, and to sweep dirt under the rug. Literary, existential philosophers, beginning with Søren Kierkegaard, conceived of this mode of Being as "inauthentic." An inauthentic person continues to perceive and act in ways his own experience has demonstrated false. He does not speak with his own voice.

In a crisis, the inevitable suffering that life entails can rapidly make a mockery of the idea that happiness is the proper pursuit of the individual.