Quotes About Philosophy

I cannot and do not live in the world of discretion, not as a writer, anyway. I would prefer to, I assure you - it would make life easier. But discretion is, unfortunately, not for novelists.

Laughing on the way to your execution is not generally understood by less-advanced life forms, and they call you crazy.

There are only four things in life that matter. The first is happiness and I'll sell you the other three for a dollar.

Beauty is the mystery of life. It is not in the eye, it is in the mind.

Life itself is a strange mixture. We have to take it as it is, try to understand it, and then to better it.

Enjoy the journey of life and not just the endgame. I'm also a great believer in treating others as you would like to be treated.

God will have life to be real; we will be damned, but it shall be theatrical.

Cold Mountain Son Forever not change I live alone Beyond life death

Independence I have long considered as the grand blessing of life, the basis of every virtue; and independence I will ever secure by contracting my wants, though I were to live on a barren heath.

And yet I adore him. I think he's quite crazy, and with no place or occupation in life, and far from happy, and philosophically irresponsible – and there is absolutely nobody like him.

Art should startle the viewer into thinking about the meaning of life.

Nothing quite brings out the zest for life in a person like the thought of their impending death.

A merry life and a short one shall be my motto.

The problem of evil is raised more often by spectators of life than the actual combatants. You will hardly ever find that the great sufferers are the great skeptics.

That I should die next week, I would still be able to sit at my desk all week and study with perfect equanimity, for I know now that life and death make a meaningful whole.

To appreciate nonsense requires a serious interest in life.

The key to a good life: excess in moderation. They'll tell you moderation is the key to life, but that's bullshit.

A lot of us don't want to be quite that serious about world problems. Our life is there to enjoy, not to be an eternal dissident, eternally unhappy with how things are and with the state of mankind.

We mourn the transitory things and fret under the yoke of the immutable ones.

The technical is not just the machinery. The technical is a disposition to life.

If we have been pleased with life, we should not be displeased with death, since it comes from the hand of the same master.

A man lives by believing something: not by debating and arguing about many things.

Life is a state of mind.

Death is close enough at hand so we do not need to be afraid of life.