Quotes About Philosophy

It's better to bet on this life than on the next.

Human life is driven forward by its dim apprehension of notions too general for its existing language.

I have the feeling that in a balanced life one should die penniless. The trick is dismantling.

It is only in the microscope that our life looks so big.

There's a certain pleasure of the life of the mind that cannot be denied. There's a certain pleasure about being around people who enact a playfulness when it comes to the world of ideas.

In the last analysis, it is our conception of death which decides our answers to all the questions that life puts to us.

Karate is for life, not points.

The more determinedly I exist, as myself, within the conditions of the time, the more clearly I shall hear the language of the past, the nearer I shall feel the glow of its life.

The sooner you learn that life is not fair, the better off you'll be.

This concern which interests us more than anything else: the blurring of the distinction between art and life.

What was Aristotle's life?' Well, the answer lay in a single sentence: 'He was born, he thought, he died.' And all the rest is pure anecdote.

Reality: What a concept!

On the one hand you take life too seriously, and on the other, you do not take playful existence seriously enough.

The meaning in life is not out there but inbetween our ears. In many ways this makes us the lords of creation.

We've created life in our own image.

It was Christianity, with its heartfelt resentment against life, that first made something unclean of sexuality: it threw filth on the origin, on the essential fact of our life.

Naturalism teaches one of the most important things in this world. There is only this life, so live wonderfully and meaningfully.

We cannot withdraw our cards from the game. Were we as silent and mute as stones, our very passivity would be an act.

Mathematicians are a bit like the laconic Vermonter who, when asked if he's lived in the state his whole life, replies, "Not yet."

The isness of things is well worth studying; but it is their whyness that makes life worth living.

Oh sorry, I was taking life seriously.

The universe is transformation: life is opinion.

Although human life is priceless, we always act as if something had an even greater price than life... but what is that something?

An unexamined life is not worth living, and an unexamined faith is not worth holding.