Quotes About Philosophy

Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art, like the universe itself (for God did not need to create). It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things which give value to survival.

Our philosophy precedes from the belief that sport is an inalienable part of the educational process and a factor for promoting peace, friendship, cooperation and understanding among peoples.

To want friendship is a great fault. Friendship ought to be a gratuitous joy, like the joys afforded by art or life.

Of all things which wisdom provides to make life entirely happy, much the greatest is the possession of friendship.

Moral science is better occupied when treating of friendship than of justice.

Women are quite capable of entering into a friendship with a man, but to keep it going that takes a little physical antipathy as well.

A woman may very well form a friendship with a man, but for this to endure, it must be assisted by a little physical antipathy.

Discussing how old you are is the temple of boredom.

Do not trouble yourself much to get new things, whether clothes or friends... Sell your clothes and keep your thoughts.

Your believing or not believing in karma has no effect on its existence, nor on its consequences to you. Just as a refusal to believe in the ocean would not prevent you from drowning.

Man - a creature made at the end of the week's work when God was tired.

Two possibilities exist: either we are alone in the Universe or we are not. Both are equally terrifying.

Notre nature est dans le mouvement; le repos entier est la mort. Our nature consists in movement; absolute rest is death.

Death! It is rest to the aged, it is oblivion to the atheist, it is immortality to the poet!

And as to you Death, and you bitter hug of mortality, it is idle to try to alarm me.

I definitely think about death. And every day your relationship with death changes. And every day I sort of feel like I know it more. I've always thought about it.

Death is unbearable unless you can get beyond the I.

What do we care, if the world is a joke? We'll give it a big kiss, we'll give it a poke. Death wears a big hat cause he's a big bloke.

Against other things it is possible to obtain security, but when it comes to death we human beings all live in an unwalled city.

Where I am death is not, where death is I am not.

I venture that those of us who are most serene when faced with the possibility of nothingness are the ones who've reached furthest to the downward and upward of their beings.

Death is a friend of ours; and he that is not ready to entertain him is not at home.

I have often thought upon death, and I find it the least of all evils.

Who dares to be intellectual in the presence of death?