Quotes About Philosophy

I have learned in the great University of Hard Knocks a philosophy that no woman who has had an easy life ever acquires. I have learned to live each day as it comes, and not to borrow trouble by dreading tomorrow. It is the dark menace of the future that makes cowards of us.

There are three modes of bearing the ills of life: by indifference, by philosophy, and by religion.

Every man who has lived his life to the full should, by the time his senior years are reached, have established a reserve inventory of unfinished thinking.

A good life fears not life, nor death.

It is not death we fear, but the thought of it.

Nothing puzzles me more than time and space; yet nothing troubles me less.

All philosophy in two words, - sustain and abstain.

You have to give this much to the Luftwaffe - when it knocked down our buildings it did not replace them with anything more offensive than rubble. We did that.

I am an atheist, thank God!

I don't believe in God because I don't believe in Mother Goose.

Beauty as we feel it is something indescribable; what it is or what it means can never be said.

A man must not swallow more beliefs than he can digest.

Books think for me.

The basic fact about human existence is not that it is a tragedy, but that it is a bore.

Boredom is a vital problem for the moralist, since at least half of the sins of mankind are caused by the fear of it.

I am a Millionaire. That is my religion.

Barbaric accuracy - whimpering humility.

Always! That is the dreadful word ... it is a meaningless word, too.

The one unchangeable certainty is that nothing is certain or unchangeable.

The absurd man is he who never changes.

Man would be "otherwise." That's the essence of the specifically human.

Dogs often remind us of the human, ail-too human. Cats, never.

The clearest sign of wisdom is continued cheerfulness.

If the life and death of Socrates were those of a sage, the life and death of Jesus were those of a God.