Quotes About Philosophy

One is still what one is going to cease to be and already what one is going to become. One lives one's death, one dies one's life.

The meaning of life is that it is to be lived, and it is not to be traded and conceptualized and squeezed into a patter of systems.

While I gave up God a long time ago, I never shook the habit of wanting to believe in something. So I replaced my creed of everlasting life with life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.

Is not life in itself a thing of goodness, irrespective of whether the course it takes for us can be called a 'happy' one?

True virtue is life under the direction of reason.

He who fears death has already lost the life he covets.

The true opponent in a debate on emptiness is your own ego.

I'm not one of those complicated, mixed-up cats. I'm not looking for the secret to life... I just go on from day to day, taking what comes.

I was not given to looking at life in a rosy light.

Just when I discovered the meaning of life, they changed it.

All that I know about my life, it seems, I have learned in books.

We possess art lest we perish of the truth.

In my solitude I have pondered much on the incomprehensible subjects of space, eternity, life and death.

I was not, I was, I am not, I care not. (Non fui, fui, non sum, non curo)

It's natural to die. The fact that we make such a big hullabaloo over it is all because we don't see ourselves as part of nature. We think because we're human we're something above nature.

Life is a battle between faith and reason in which each feeds upon the other, drawing sustenance from it and destroying it.

If our 'message' is anything, it's a positive approach to life. That life is basically good. People are basically good.

Breathe life into the weapon, don't take life away from it. Keep walking, because walking is life.

Life consists of burning up questions.

Unless you assume a God, the question of life's purpose is meaningless.

I believe that everything in life happens for a reason.

Plato described ordinary life as unthinking, lived in a dim cave of shadowy reflections, but said that it is possible to leave the cave and see things in sunlit clarity as they actually are.

Although according to certain philosophers it is quite difficult to distinguish the jester from the melancholic, life itself being a comic drama or a dramatic comedy.

Handing over a bank note is enough to make a bicycle belong to me, but my entire life is needed to realize this possession.