Quotes About Philosophy

One of the greatest things in life may not be life itself, but the knowledge of how to live that life.

Life is one big question when your starin at the clock.

Each religion, so dear to those whose life it sanctifies, and fulfilling so necessary a function in the society that has adopted it, necessarily contradicts every other religion, and probably contradicts itself

Life is not a problem to be solved, but a reality to be experienced.

The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts: therefore, guard accordingly, and take care that you entertain no notions unsuitable to virtue and reasonable nature.

The marvel of the Bhagavad-Gita is its truly beautiful revelation of life's wisdom which enables philosophy to blossom into religion.

Do all the work you can; that is the whole philosophy of the good way of life

Our intonations contain our philosophy of life, what each of us is constantly telling himself about things

Pessimism is a very easy way out when you're considering what life really is, because pessimism is a short view of life - If you take a long view, I do not see how you can be pessimistic about the future of man or the future of the world

The eternal mystery of the world is its comprehensibility.

Neither one should hesitate about dedicating oneself to philosophy when young, nor should get tired of doing it when one's old, because no one is ever too young or too old to reach one's soul's healthy.

Life is not an easy matter... You cannot live through it without falling into frustration and cynicism unless you have before you a great idea which raises you above personal misery, above weakness, above all kinds of perfidy and baseness.

This has been my life. I have found it worth living, and would gladly live it again if the chance were offered me.

Every idea is endowed of itself with immortal life, like a human being. All created form, even that which is created by man, is immortal. For form is independent of matter: molecules do not constitute form.

Human life must be some form of mistake

You ask: what is the meaning or purpose of life? I can only answer with another question: do you think we are wise enough to read God's mind?

Life is a gift of the immortal Gods, but living well is the gift of philosophy.

Really, the fundamental, ultimate mystery -- the only thing you need to know to understand the deepest metaphysical secrets -- is this: that for every outside there is an inside and for every inside there is an outside, and although they are different, they go together.

You don't have to be the Dalai Lama to tell people that life's about change.

Your distress about life might mean you have been living for the wrong reason, not that you have no reason for living.

May you live your life as if the maxim of your actions were to become universal law.

Even death is not to be feared by one who has lived wisely.

I have always looked upon decay as being just as wonderful and rich an expression of life as growth.

Man, being reasonable, must get drunk; the best of life is but intoxication.