Quotes About Philosophy

A curious thought experiment. . . Nietzsche's message to us was to live life in such a way that we would be willing to repeat the same life eternally

Sometimes I wonder if we live life by reliving life, rather than by living life.

Many of us in Nashville accepted nonviolence as a way of life, a way of living, not simply as a technique or a tactic.

But somethings in life are more important than being happy. Like being free to think for yourself.

Life without the courage for death is slavery.

This can't last. This misery can't last. I must remember that and try to control myself. Nothing lasts really. Neither happiness nor despair. Not even life lasts very long.

Even as a child I felt in my heart two opposite emotions: the horror of life and the ecstasy of life.

Humor is the contemplation of the finite from the point of view of the infinite.

[last words] What is life? It is the flash of a firefly in the night.

Not to be bound by rules, but to be creating one's own rules-this is the kind of life which Zen is trying to have us live.

The noblest people are those despising wealth, learning, pleasure and life; esteeming above them poverty, ignorance, hardship and death.

To possess a high degree of consciousness, to be always aware of yourself in relation to the world, to live in the permanent tension of knowledge, means to be lost for life.

What concerns me is not the way things are, but rather the way people think things are.

When we reflect on the shortness and uncertainty of life, how despicable seem all our pursuits of happiness.

If you think all the time every day of your life, you might as well kill yourself today and be happier tomorrow.

A regret understood by no one: the regret to be a pessimist. It's not easy to be on the wrong foot with life.

I said to Life, I would hear Death speak. And Life raised her voice a little higher and said, You hear him now.

Like Nietzsche, I believe that without music, life would be a mistake. Nothing but silence says it better.

To examine the causes of life, we must first have recourse to death.

The ancient Greeks were the first ones to say an unexamined life is not worth living. They don't tell you of course what we found out, an examined life not that fascinating either.

While we are reasoning concerning life, life is gone.

I've never done anything but dream. This, and this alone, has been the meaning of my life. My only real concern has been my inner life.

Where life is possible at all, a right life is possible; life in a palace is possible; therefore even in a palace a right life is possible.

All life is a dream, and all dreams are dreams.