Quotes About Philosophy

A New Orleans credo: When life gives you lemons--make daiquiris.

The only meaning of life worth caring about is one that can withstand our best efforts to examine it.

By accepting life's limits and inevitabilities and working with them rather than fighting them, we become free.

Let him know how to choose the mean and avoid the extremes on either side, as far as possible. . . . For this is the way of happiness.

The definition of morality: Morality is the idiosyncrasy of decadents having the hidden desire to revenge themselves upon life - and being successful.

You shouldn't do science just to improve wealth - do science for the sake of human culture and knowledge. There must be some purpose in life that is higher than just surviving.

I do not believe in any religion, I will have nothing to do with immortality. We are miserable enough in this life without speculating upon another.

It is emphatically the case that life could not arise spontaneously in a primeval soup from its kind.

I want to go when I want. It is tasteless to prolong life artificially. I have done my share, it is time to go. I will do it elegantly.

For me, it's not about masochism to talk about death. For me, it's about observing life through death, from the last point of it.

If our life has a meaning, an aim, it has nothing to do with our personal happiness, but something wiser and greater.

The whole of life is symbolic because the whole of it has meaning.

Self-knowledge is the basis of jeet kune do because it is effective not only for the individual's martial art but also for his life as a human being.

I have been an Anarchist all my life.

In the latter case life rests upon a thousand presuppositions which the individual can never trace back to their origins, and verify; but which he must accept upon faith and belief.

One's existence should be in two parts: one should live like a bourgeois and think like a demigod.

Ten out of ten people die, so don't take life too seriously.

Wisdom is the oneness of mind that guides and permeated all things.

We do not advocate 'right to life' for animals.

I don't think we are here for anything. We're just products of evolution. You can say, "Gee, your life must be pretty bleak if you don't think there's a purpose." But I'm anticipating a good lunch.

The need to speak, even if one has nothing to say, becomes more pressing when one has nothing to say, just as the will to live becomes more urgent when life has lost its meaning.

One may live tranquilly in a dungeon; but does life consist in living quietly?

The terrible thing about death is that it transforms life into destiny.

Art is the highest task and the proper metaphysical activity of this life.