Quotes About Philosophy

Philosopher: A lover of wisdom, which is to say, Truth.

Well-ordered self-love is right and natural.

The motive power of democracy is love

Sex without love is mating, love without sex is philosophy.

You are done for - a living dead man - not when you stop loving but stop hating. Hatred preserves: in it, in its chemistry, resides the mystery of life.

For you to ask advice on the rules of love is no better than to ask advice on the rules of madness

Love is like pi - natural, irrational, and very important.

Platonic love is love from the neck up.

The spiritualization of sensuality is called love: it is a great triumph over Christianity.

All theory, dear friend, is gray, but the golden tree of life springs ever green.

Great men are they who see that the spiritual is stronger than any material force, that thoughts rule the world.

I'm no syllogism incarnate, but my wife makes me look like Immanuel Kant.

Get married, in any case. If you happen to get a good mate, you will be happy; if a bad one, you will become philosophical, which is a fine thing in itself.

Being asked whether it's better to marry or not, he (Socrates) replied, Whichever you do you will repent it

By all means marry. If you get a good wife, you'll be happy. If you get a bad one, you'll become a philosopher...and that is a good thing for any man.

By all means marry; if you get a good wife, you'll be happy. If you get a bad one, you'll become a philosopher.

If there is a meaning in life at all, then there must be a meaning in suffering. Suffering is an ineradicable part of life, even as fate and death. Without suffering and death human life cannot be complete.

They say life is a question and death is the answer.

We die. That may be the meaning of life. But we do language. That may be the measure of our lives.

Sometimes I wonder if suicides aren't in fact sad guardians of the meaning of life.

If not for music, I would probably be a very frustrated scientist. It's one way to answer the question, 'What is the meaning of life?' I feel music answers it better.

Challenging the meaning of life is the truest expression of the state of being human.

The meaning of life is that it stops.

Each man must look to himself to teach him the meaning of life. It is not something discovered: it is something molded.