Quotes About Philosophy

Human thought is thought that opens up into the future, and the future is inescapably the domain of the gods.

You think it makes complete sense to have to work for what's free for the taking to every other creature on earth. You alone lock food away from yourselves and then toil to get it back—and imagine that nothing could possibly make better sense.

WE NOW KNOW TWO HIGHLY important things about people," Ishmael said, "at least according to Taker mythology. One, there's something fundamentally wrong with them, and, two, they have no certain knowledge about how they ought to live—and never will have any. It seems as though there should be a connection between these two things.

If there is cheesy packaging around a universal truth, does that make the universal truth inside any less valid?

I was reading the dictionary. I thought it was a poem about everything.

There is no such thing as perpetual tranquility of mind while we live here; because life itself is but motion, and can never be without desire, nor without fear, no more than without sense.

Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art… It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things which give value to survival.

The secret to happiness is to face the fact that the world is horrible.

"Try not to become a man of success. Rather become a man of value."

When you wake up in the morning, tell yourself: the people I deal with today will be meddling, ungrateful, arrogant, dishonest, jealous and surly. They are like this because they can't tell good from evil. But I have seen the beauty of good, and the ugliness of evil and recognized that the wrongdoer has a nature related to my own – not of the same blood or birth, but the same mind, and possessing a share of the divine. And so none of them can hurt me.

The books that help you most are those which make you think the most. The hardest way of learning is that of easy reading; but a great book that comes from a great thinker is a ship of thought, deep freighted with truth and beauty.

"The secret of happiness is this: let your interests be as wide as possible, and let your reactions to things and persons that interest you be as far as possible friendly rather than hostile."

Kurt Vonnegut

Life goes on. What nonsense, I though, of course it doesn't. It's death that goes on.

Life is more than just chess. Though king dies, life goes on.

Life is short, and therefore, one thing being certain, death, let us take up a great ideal, and give up the whole life to it. For what is the value of life, this vegetating little low life of man? Subordinating it to one high ideal is the only value that life has.

My theory on life is that life is beautiful. Life doesn't change. You have a day, and a night, and a month, and a year. We people change – we can be miserable or we can be happy. It's what you make of your life.

Generally speaking, the way of the warrior is resolute acceptance of death.

The way of the warrior does not include other ways…but if you know the way broadly you will see it in everything.

Evil events from evil causes spring.

By all means, marry. If you get a good wife, you'll become happy; if you get a bad one, you'll become a philosopher.

The most certain sign of wisdom is cheerfulness.

Once you label me you negate me.

A little reflection will show us that every belief, even the simplest and most fundamental, goes beyond experience when regarded as a guide to our actions.