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Quotes About Philosophy

The cradle rocks above an abyss, and common sense tells us that our existence is but a brief crack of light between two eternities of darkness.
~ Vladimir Nabokov
The heart unites whatever the mind separates, pushes on beyond the arena of necessity and transmutes the struggle into love.
~ Nikos Kazantzakis
We are one of many appearances of the thing called Life; we are not its perfect image, for it has no perfect image except Life, and life is multitudinous and emergent in the stream of time.
~ Loren Eiseley
People think life is real complicated. Actually, there's nothing to it. Once you leave out all the bullshit they teach you in school, life gets really simple.
~ George Carlin
Since all life is futility, then the decision to exist must be the most irrational of all.
~ Emile M. Cioran
In tragedy every moment is eternity; in comedy, eternity is a moment.
~ Christopher Fry
The idea of life is to give and receive.
~ Dizzy Gillespie
The point about zero is that we do not need to use it in the operation of daily life. No one goes out to buy zero fish.
~ Alfred North Whitehead
Does the universe exist only for me? It's possible. If so, it's sure going well for me, I must admit.
~ Bill Gates
How ridiculous and how strange to be surprised at anything which happens in life
~ Marcus Aurelius
Life and death are not properly scientific concepts but rather political concepts, which as such acquire a political meaning precisely only through a decision.
~ Giorgio Agamben
Death, that final evil, is one of the paths to eternity. Endless life in the conditions of our existence would be a nightmare.
~ Nikolai Berdyaev
Death does determine life.
~ Pier Paolo Pasolini
The most important questions of life are indeed, for the most part, really only problems of probability.
~ Pierre-Simon Laplace
The one serious conviction that a man should have is that nothing is to be taken too seriously.
~ Nicholas Butler
Death is like a mirror in which the true meaning of life is reflected.
~ Sogyal Rinpoche
Life is too short so we must generalize.
~ Gordon Allport
Life may be not only meaningless but absurd.
~ Thomas Nagel
The world is not a machine. Everything in it is force, life, thought.
~ Gottfried Leibniz
Everything is both simpler than we can imagine and more entangled than we can conceive.
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
It is possible to evade a multitude of sorrows by the cultivation of an insignificant life.
~ John Henry Jowett
A free life cannot acquire many possessions, because this is not easy to do without servility to mobs or monarchs.
~ Epicurus
Life without the courage to die is slavery.
~ Seneca the Younger
Not being able to govern events, I govern myself.
~ Michel de Montaigne