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Quotes About Philosophy

Our beliefs in a rich future life are of little importance unless we coin them into a rich present life.
~ Thomas Dreier
The mystical life is at the centre of all that I do and all that I think and all that I write.
~ William Butler Yeats
Much later, when I was discussing cosmological problems with Einstein, he remarked that the introduction of the cosmological term was the biggest blunder he ever made in his life.
~ George Gamow
Life is whole only when it isn't subordinate to a specific object that exceeds it. In this way, the essence of entirety is freedom.
~ Georges Bataille
There is nothing truly serious in life. All words sound hollow when one listens to them carefully.
~ Alexandra David-Neel
There's no end to the absurd things people will do trying to make life mean something.
~ William Wharton
Plain living and high thinking are no more.
~ William Wordsworth
I think life's an irrational obsession.
~ Sean Penn
The life of which meaning one never ponders is not worth living
~ Socrates
Mama always said, dying was a part of life. I sure wish it wasn't.
~ Tom Hanks
All the great religions contain wise prescriptions relating to the conduct of life, which hold good now as they did when they were promulgated.
~ Nikola Tesla
Happiness is an art that one has to learn. It has nothing to do with your doing or not doing.
~ Rajneesh
The idea of vegetarianism is of immense value; it is based on great reverence for life.
~ Rajneesh
Any foolish boy can stamp on a beetle, but all the professors in the world cannot make a beetle.
~ Arthur Schopenhauer
In the past, I always used to be looking for answers. Today, I know there are only questions. So I just live.
~ Sarah Brightman
You ask me what life is. That's like asking what a carrot is. A carrot is a carrot, and there's nothing more to know.
~ Anton Chekhov
life's not a paragraph And death i think is no parenthesis
~ e. e. cummings
Life is a miserable thing. I have decided to spend my life thinking about it.
~ Irvin D. Yalom
Life is like a simile.
~ Terry Carr
The art of life is the art of avoiding pain.
~ Thomas Jefferson
Neither Christ nor Buddha nor Socrates wrote a book, for to do so is to exchange life for a logical process.
~ William Butler Yeats
There was more to life than the things you could hold in your hands or see with your eyes.
~ Michael Jackson
I know that plans and reality may be two different things, but I think my demands on life are minimal.
~ Moshe Dayan
Death's stamp gives value to the coin of life; making it possible to buy with life what is truly precious.
~ Rabindranath Tagore