Quotes About Philosophy

The death of dogma is the birth of morality.

Dust into Dust, and under Dust to lie, Sans Wine, sans Song, sans Singer, and-sans End!

Whether or not we believe in survival of consciousness after death, reincarnation, and karma, it has very serious implications for our behavior.

The way of the Samurai is found in death.

Uncertainty is wondrous, and.. certainty, were it to be real, would be moral death.

Death must be an evil and the gods agree; for why else would they live for ever?

The art of living well and the art of dying well are one.

Either the soul survives death or it does not, and there is no scientific evidence that it does.

The only reason we die, is because we accept death as an inevitability.

I will be dead in a few months. But it hasn't given me the slightest anxiety or worry. I always knew I was going to die.

I have lived eighty years of life and know nothing for it, but to be resigned and tell myself that flies are born to be eaten by spiders and man to be devoured by sorrow.

It is impossible that anything so natural, so necessary, and so universal as death, should ever have been designed by providence as an evil to mankind.

Death is something we shouldn't fear because, while we are, death isn't, and when death is, we aren't.

We do not die because we have to die; we die because one day, and not so long ago, our consciousness was forced to deem it necessary.

Death doesn't frighten me.

The worst thing that can happen is death, and that's not the worst thing in the world either.

All I know is that I must soon die, but what I know least is this very death which I cannot escape.

Hamlet and Victor Frankenstein are each obsessed with death. Hamlet's whole story is a philosophical preparation for death; Victor's is an intellectual refusal to accept it.

Death is a release from and an end of all pains.

I'm possibly a very morbid person but I think about death a lot.

You are the true master of death, because the true master does not seek to run away from Death.

There is not a grain of dust, not an atom that can become nothing, yet man believes that death is the annhilation of his being.

I was dead for millions of years before I was born and it never inconvenienced me a bit.

The worst evil of all is to leave the ranks of the living before one dies.