Quotes About Philosophy

Courage is a mean with regard to fear and confidence.

Religion in its humility restores man to his only dignity, the courage to live by grace.

To put it boldly, it is the attempt at a posterior reconstruction of existence by the process of conceptualization.

You could attach prices to thoughts. Some cost a lot, some a little. And how does one pay for thoughts? The answer, I think, is: with courage.

The shallow is easy to embrace, but the profound is difficult. To discard the shallow and seek the profound is the way of a person of courage.

The great courage is to stare as squarely at the light as at death.

Fatalism is a lazy man's way of accepting the inevitable.

In this unbelievable universe in which we live there are no absolutes. Even parallel lines reaching into infinity meet somewhere yonder.

Dad said I would always be "high minded and low waged" from reading too much Ralph Waldo Emerson. Maybe he was right.

Alas, what wickedness to swallow flesh into our own flesh, to fatten our greedy bodies by cramming in other bodies, to have one living creature fed by the death of another!

Death does not concern us, because as long as we exist, death is not here. And when it does come, we no longer exist.

A physicist friend of mine once said that in facing death, he drew some consolation from the reflection that he would never again have to look up the word "hermeneutics" in the dictionary.

Life defined only as the opposite of death is not life.

No evil is honorable: but death is honorable; therefore death is not evil.

Man is the only animal that contemplates death, and also the only animal that shows any sign of doubt of its finality.

If you want to endure life, prepare yourself for death.

The world is impermanent. One should constantly remember death.

Death is an evil; the gods have so judged; had it been good, they would die.

Birth is not a beginning; death is not an end. There is existence without limitation; there is continuity without a starting point.

Call no man happy till he is dead.

One has to pay dearly for immortality; one has to die several times while one is still alive.

You should think about your own death 3 times per day at the very least.

Death is a sleep that ends our dreaming. Oh, that we may be allowed to wake before death wakes us.

Everybody has got to die, but I have always believed an exception would be made in my case.