Quotes About Philosophy

The most interesting thing in the world is another human being who wonders, suffers and raises the questions that have bothered him to the last day of his life, knowing he will never get the answers.

For those who seek to understand it, death is a highly creative force. The highest spiritual values of life can originate from the thought and study of death.

An answer is always a form of death.

Sleep is good, death is better; but of course, the best thing would to have never been born at all

There's a remedy for everything except death.

When life demands more of people than they demand of life - as is ordinarily the case - what results is a resentment of life almost as deep-seated as the fear of death

I would rather die a meaningful death than to live a meaningless life.

While I thought that I was learning how to live, I have been learning how to die.

If I err in my belief that the souls of men are immortal, I err gladly, and do not wish to lose so delightful an error

Immortal mortals, mortal immortals, one living the others death and dying the others life.

Death is one of the few things that can be done as easily lying down. The difference between sex and death is that with death you can do it alone and no one is going to make fun of you.

Birth and death are not two different states, but they are different aspects of the same state. There is as little reason to deplore the one as there is to be pleased over the other.

The Greeks said grandly in their tragic phrase, 'Let no one be called happy till his death;' to which I would add, 'Let no one, till his death, be called unhappy.'

I cannot conceive such a Being could make such a Species as the human, merely to live and die on this earth

A serious and good philosophical work could be written consisting entirely of jokes.

Suppose the world were only one of God's jokes, would you work any the less to make it a good joke instead of a bad one?

Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.

Philosophy is the science which considers truth

I like to browse in occult bookshops if for no other reason than to refresh my commitment to science.

More important than the curriculum is the question of the methods of teaching and the spirit in which the teaching is given

I decided to teach because I think that any person who studies philosophy has to be involved actively

I do not know how to teach philosophy without becoming a disturber of established religion

History is philosophy teaching by example.

Indians love to reduce the prosaic to the mystic