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Quotes About Philosophy

If only people thought a little more about it, they would see that life is not worrying about so much.
~ Mikhail Lermontov
Sometimes I lie awake at night and ask why me? Then a voice answers nothing personal, your name just happened to come up.
~ Charles M. Schulz
Knowing how to die is knowing how to live. What is death anyway? It's the outcome of life.
~ Jeanne Moreau
Feeling lost, crazy and desperate belongs to a good life as much as optimism, certainty and reason.
~ Alain de Botton
To choose doubt as a philosophy of life is akin to choosing immobility as a means of transportation.
~ Yann Martel, Life of Pi
Of course life has no point. If it had, man would not be free.
~ Andrei Tarkovsky
What are we doing here, that is the question.
~ Samuel Beckett
It is more fitting for a man to laugh at life than to lament over it.
~ Seneca the Younger
Love of life is born of the awareness of death, of the dread of it.
~ Ian Fleming
The notion is called wabi-sabi life, like the cherry blossom, it is beautiful because of its impermanence, not in spite of it, more exquisite for the inevitability of loss.
~ Peggy Orenstein
In the fullness of time, educated people will believe there is no soul independent of the body, and hence no life after death.
~ Francis Crick
I have spent my life laboriously doing nothing.
~ Hugo Grotius
'Darkness' is a subjective word; it depends what your viewpoint is and how you live life.
~ Taylor Momsen
It's not the pace of life I mind. It's the sudden stop at the end.
~ Thomas Hobbes
Life, what is it but a dream?
~ Lewis Carroll
Always bear this in mind, that very little indeed is necessary for living a happy life.
~ Marcus Aurelius
Every moment of life is the last, every poem is a death poem.
~ Matsuo Basho
This isn't life in the fast lane, it's life in the oncoming traffic.
~ Terry Pratchett
The final wisdom of life requires not the annulment of incongruity but the achievement of serenity within and above it.
~ Reinhold Niebuhr
I have come to value liberated minds as the supreme good of life on earth.
~ J. Frank Dobie
Socialism is... not only a way of life, but a certain scientific approach to social and economic problems.
~ Jawaharlal Nehru
Life has taught me to think, but thinking has not taught me to live.
~ Alexander Herzen
Not to be born is undoubtedly the best plan of all. Unfortunately, it is within no one's reach.
~ Emile M. Cioran
Life is very, very complicated, and so films should be allowed to be, too.
~ David Lynch