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Quotes About Philosophy

Belief is a toxic and dangerous attitude toward reality. After all, if it's there it doesn't require your belief- and if it's not there why should you believe in it?
~ Terence McKenna
An idealist is one who, on noticing that roses smell better than a cabbage, concludes that it will also make better soup.
~ H. L. Mencken
Absurdity is what I like most in life.
~ David Lynch
Do not believe yourself healthy. Immortality is health; this life is a long sickness.
~ Saint Augustine
You want to live-but do you know how to live? You are scared of dying-and, tell me, is the kind of life you lead really any different from being dead?
~ Seneca the Younger
Let the stoics say what they please, we do not eat for the good of living, but because the meat is savory and the appetite is keen.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
Evolution is the Law of Life Number is the Law of the Universe Unity is the Law of God
~ Pythagoras
Man spends his life in reasoning on the past, in complaining of the present, in fearing future.
~ Antoine Rivarol
There is no meaning if meaning is not shared, and not because there would be an ultimate or first signification that all beings have in common, but because meaning is itself the sharing of Being.
~ Jean-Luc Nancy
Without knowing what I am and why I am here, life is impossible.
~ Leo Tolstoy
Life is a sexually transmitted disease.
~ R. D. Laing
Death really did not matter to him but life did, and therefore the sensation he felt when they gave their decision was not a feeling of fear but of nostalgia.
~ Gabriel Garcia Marquez
I've come to realize that life is not a musical comedy, it's a Greek tragedy.
~ Billy Joel
What is your greatest ambition in life?' 'To become immortal... and then die.
~ Jean-Luc Godard
The very meaninglessness of life forces man to create his own meaning.
~ Stanley Kubrick
If one considered life as a simple loan, one would perhaps be less exacting. We possess actually nothing; everything goes through us.
~ Eugene Delacroix
Death is nothing to us, since when we are, death has not come, and when death has come, we are not.
~ Epicurus
If there is meaning in life at all, then there must be meaning in suffering.
~ Viktor E. Frankl
I want my games to teach a message about life, by presenting situations where the answer isn't a clear yes or no.
~ Hideo Kojima
In # France we have a saying, 'Joie de Vivre,' which actually doesn't exist in the English language. It means looking at your life as something that is to be taken with great pleasure and enjoy it.
~ Mireille Guiliano
All life long, the same questions, the same answers.
~ Samuel Beckett
I've given up asking questions. l merely float on a tsunami of acceptance of anything life throws at me ... and marvel stupidly.
~ Terry Gilliam
Beware of looking for goals: look for a way of life.
~ Hunter S. Thompson
Belief in God and a future life makes it possible to go through life with less of stoic courage than is needed by skeptics.
~ Bertrand Russell