Quotes About Philosophy

The world you experience, every day and night of your life, is transient. They only last for the blink of an eye, and then they dissolve back into that unknowable and formless eternity.

The purpose of all of this is not to walk around with new vocabulary words, but to cause you to speculate on the marvel of your own being.

On your journey, remember there is no end. That is true knowledge. There is no final knowledge. There is no final enlightenment, that is a very finite, human way of seeing things.

Drop the question of what tomorrow may bring, and count as profit every day that Fate allows you.

Thomas Jefferson spoke of certain truths as self-evident. He did not say that these truths were self-explanatory or that they were self-operating.

I am always thinking 'What am I doing here? Is this the way I am supposed to feel?'

We've only been wealthy in this country for 70 years. Who said we ought to have all this? Is it ordained?

What is important is not the length of life, but the depth of life. What is important is not to make life longer, but to take your soul out of time, as every sublime act does.

The idea came to me that I was, am, and will be, but perhaps will not become. This did not scare me. There was for me in being an intensity I did not feel in becoming.

Life is a question in the form of an answer

The moment you enter into the world of words you start falling away from that which is. The more you enter into language, the farther you are away from existence.

You destroy my life then feed me inspirational philosophy.

Time hath often cured the wound which reason failed to heal.

Clocks indeed must have their sacrifice: what is death but an offering to time and eternity?

What we need in literature today are vast philosophic horizons... we need the most ultimate, the most fearsome, the most fearless "Why?" and "What next?".

To reflect the entire spectrum, the dynamics of the adventure novel must be invested with a philosophic synthesis of one kind or another.

I am for those means which will give the greatest good to the greatest number.

Is this true or only clever?

There are simply no answers to some of the great pressing questions.

If there's good, strong evidence from science that such and such is the case and this is contrary to Buddhism, then we will change.

Despite all philosophical differences, all major world religions have the same potential to create good human beings.

There isa time to liveand a time to diebut never to reject the moment.

I know that I know nothing

Nothing's ever all bad if you think hard enough about it.