Quotes About Philosophy

Death is more important than life. Life is just the trivial, just the superficial; death is deeper. Through death you grow to the real life, and through life you only reach death and nothing else.

I can't imagine a life without humor. Especially if you have an existential understanding of life, you must acknowledge the absurdity of it all.

High thinking is inconsistent with a complicated material life based on high speed and imposed on us by mammon worship.

Life is too short to live with any but the greatest books.

Accept life, take it as it is? Stupid. The means of doing otherwise? Far from our having to take it, it is life that possesses us and on occasion shuts our mouths.

When I was still a rather precocious young man, I already realized most vividly the futility of the hopes and aspirations that most men pursue throughout their lives.

Horses and life, it's all the same to me.

The least of things with a meaning is worth more in life than the greatest of things without it.

Human affairs are like a chess-game: only those who do not take it seriously can be called good players. Life is like an earthen pot: only when it is shattered, does it manifest its emptiness.

It is not that we have so little time but that we lose so much. ... The life we receive is not short but we make it so; we are not ill provided but use what we have wastefully.

Hedonism can be a rational response to a difficult life.

Life has to be given a meaning because of the obvious fact that it has no meaning.

The meaning of life is to live a meaningful life.

You do not understand even life. How can you understand death?

I think suicide is the most perfect thing you can do in life.

My understanding of life is very existential. I think that we are our bodies. There's nothing else, and when we die, that's it. No afterlife.

I had enough brain to live a stupid life.

The Greek word for sinning means to 'miss the point;' The point is eternal life which is here and now.

Art is the way to the absolute and to the essence of human life.

The greatest and most important problems of life are all fundamentally insoluble. They can never be solved but only outgrown.

Strong hope is a much greater stimulant of life than any single realised joy could be.

Christianity was from the beginning, essentially and fundamentally, life's nausea and disgust with life, merely concealed behind, masked by, dressed up as, faith in "another" or "better" life.

Look, my philosophy in life is expect nothing and everything is a bonus.

If you do not believe in a personal God, the question: 'What is the purpose of life?' is unaskable and unanswerable.