Quotes About Philosophy

What is the greatest thing ye can experience? It is the hour of great contempt. The hour in which even your happiness becometh loathsome unto you, and so also your reason and virtue.

The best philosophy is to do one's duties to take the world as it comes submit respectfully to one's lot and bless the goodness that has given us so much happiness with it whatever it is.

That is why I don't believe much in what Mr. Descartes said: "I think, therefore I am." I think, therefore I'm lost in my thinking. I'm not there.

Remember, happiness doesn't depend upon who you are or what you have, it depends solely upon what you think.

If happiness were the means to measure the evolutionary level of a species, I bet Darwin would've changed his mind and places humans at the very bottom.

Momentary happiness is worse than permanent misery.

What would be the description of happines? Nothing, except what prepares and then what destroys it, can be told.

Life has only three states-Happiness, Grief and Emptiness.The extreme state of life is emptiness.

I shall never be very merry or very sad, for I am more prone to analyse than to feel.

Beyond the curve of his days he glimpsed neither superhuman happiness nor eternity--happiness was human, eternity ordinary.

27. Of all the means which are procured by wisdom to ensure happiness throughout the whole of life, by far the most important is the acquisition of firends.

...Tolstoy said, happiness is an allegory, unhappiness a story - then what does that make us?...

So that the smile was not so much an attitude to be taken to life as the nature of the cruelty of life, a cruelty we cannot even choose to avoid, since it is human existence.

It perplexes me. How can one sad incident compensate ten happy incidents? Why? Happiness is losing.

The rest of the world lives to eat, while I eat to live.

If you have two loaves of bread, keep one to nourish the body, but sell the other to buy hyacinths for the soul.

All healthy men have thought of their own suicide

Some say vegetarianism is an alternative diet, but it is the original diet, the plan designed by God.

How can you eat anything with eyes?

To be or not to be isn't the question. The question is how to prolong being.

Zen and Buddhism have produced martial arts, because of the Buddhist injunction against weapons.

I think the philosophy in our public schools, and many other institutions today, is that a dose of God is more hazardous to your health than a dose of herpes or drugs.

One should treat one's fate as one does one's health; enjoy it when it is good, be patient with it when it is poor, and never attempt any drastic cure save as an ultimate resort.

Health is the requisite after morality