Quotes About Philosophy

I persist on praising not the life I lead, but that which I ought to lead. I follow it at a mighty distance, crawling

There is no such thing as perpetual tranquillity of mind while we live here; because life itself is but motion, and can never be without desire, nor without fear, no more than without sense.

Most of my life has been one tragedy after another, most of which hasn't happened.

Nature wants us to enjoy life to the full and die without giving it a second thought; Christianity wants the opposite.

Don't use Buddhism to become a Buddhist. Use Buddhism to become better at whatever else in your life you are doing already.

Life! Don't talk to me about life!

Never is a man wholly a saint or a sinner.

If we understood the enigmas of life there would be no need for art.

I once met an economist who believed that everything was fungible for money, so I suggested he enclose himself in a large bell-jar with as much money as he wanted and see how long he lasted.

In every aspect of my life, I tend to look for the deeper side.

The joys of theory are the sweetest intellectual pleasures of life

You are a little soul carrying around a corpse.

Enough is abundance to the wise.

Either things happen for a reason, or they happen for no reason at all. Either one's life is a thread in a glorious tapestry or humanity is just a hopelessly tangled knot.

Science is a way of life which can only flourish when men are free to have faith.

I Used To Believe In Reincarnation, But That Was In a Past Life.

And maddest of all, to see life as it is and not as it should be.

The life which is not examined is not worth living.

We needed to stop asking about the meaning of life.

I've never regretted not having children. My mindset in that regard has been constant. I objected to being born, and I refuse to impose life on someone else.

…the book creates meaning, the meaning creates life.

Without music, life would be an error. The German imagines even God singing songs

The way I see things, the way I see life, I see it as a struggle. And there's a great deal of reward I have gained coming to that understanding - that existence is a struggle.

I don't believe in life after death. But I do believe in some grinding destiny that watches over us on earth. If I didn't, the safety valve would give and the boiler would explode.