Quotes About Philosophy

Dying is a very dull, dreary affair. And my advice to you is to have nothing whatever to do with it.

He alone is free who lives with free consent under the entire guidance of reason.

The chief value of money lies in the fact that one lives in a world in which it is overestimated.

If I can't get people to commit themselves on whether or not there is a square root of two, then I won't touch on God or anything here

I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the sea shore, and diverting myself in now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me. —SIR ISAAC NEWTON

Life is a windowless room in the Hotel Bellevue.

Secular folks have no opinion about God's existence; they're busy with other matters. But a secular mystic would say, "The question is not 'Does God exist?' It's rather, 'What do we mean by 'God?

As Hegel said, tragedy was not the conflict between right and wrong but right and right , a dilemma none of us who wanted participate in history could escape.

Death would hurt only for a moment, which was not so bad when one considered how much, and for how long, life hurt.

The typical American preferred the canned version of philosophy found in how-to manuals, but even average Frenchmen and Vietnamese cherished a love of knowledge.

How could I forget that every truth meant at least two things, that slogans were empty suits draped on the corpse of an idea?

Death would only hurt for a moment, which was not so bad when one considered how much, and for how long, life hurt.

The father of one of the dead children cried, My God, why are You doing this to us? And it struck us all then, the answer to humanity's eternal question of Why? It was, and is, simply this: Why not?

Why should I worry about deviating from the masses when I am also me and myself? Am I not a mass? Am I not already a collective? Do I not contain multitudes? Am I not a universe unto myself? Am I not always infinitely dialectical as I synthesize the thesis of me and the antithesis of myself?

being of the firm belief that money did not live until it was spent, particularly in the company of friends.

And there you have the absurdity.

The Communists are evil. They don't believe in God and they don't believe in money.

We all experience many freakish and unexpected events - you have to be open to suffering a little. The philosopher Schopenhauer talked about how out of the randomness, there is an apparent intention in the fate of an individual that can be glimpsed later on. When you are an old guy, you can look back, and maybe this rambling life has some through-line. Others can see it better sometimes. But when you glimpse it yourself, you see it more clearly than anyone.

The future is simple. The future is simple, I can hold it i the palm of my hand; and the present is just a matter of endurance, detachment, and a sense of humor.

My philosophy is : there is no use of trying to be kind to those who are always rude to you.

Nobody in this world can explain you the meaning of life, but I can explain it only in four words and these are – I also don't know.

Philosophy makes the shy people strong and the strong people stronger.

The study of great quotations is worth more than a college education.

There are a lot of books showing on how to live longer, but none on why.