Quotes About Philosophy

Thus Christian humanism is as indispensable to the Christian way of life as Christian ethics and a Christian sociology.

Anyone who can look me in the eye and say they prefer the story of Moses or Jesus or Mohammed to the life of Socrates is intellectually defective.

For benefits return benefits; for injuries return justice without any admixture of revenge.

Why should physical processing give rise to a rich inner life at all? It seems objectively unreasonable that it should, and yet it does.

Living a good life leads to enduring happiness. Goodness in and of itself is the practice AND the reward.

In the Far East, we look at life in terms of circles. In the West, they look at life more in terms of squares and rectangles.

I'm more and more convinced that life is a dream. What has happened to me is surely a dream.

The fool's life is empty of gratitude and full of fears; its course lies wholly toward the future.

Life is a disease.

If we carry this line of argument to its logical conclusion, the meaning of life consists of the flaws in one's conceptions and what one does about them. Life can be seen as a fertile fallacy.

Life itself is neither a good nor an evil: life is where good or evil find a place, depending on how you make it for them.

It is the greatest good for an individual to discuss virtue (aka areté) every day...for the unexamined life is not worth living.

Philosophy is an odd thing... There is no particular Socratic or Dimechian or Kantian way to live your life. They don't offer ethical codes and standards by which to live your life.

Maybe the greatest madness is to see life as it is rather than what it could be.

I'm trying to figure things out in the world. No one knows what this life thing is all about - there's no manual. Just trying to figure it out.

Impermanence is very important, crucial for life. That is why instead of complaining about impermanence you have to say "Long live impermanence!"

I to die, and you to live. Which is better God only knows.

There is no answer. It's okay. But even if it wasn't okay, what am I supposed to do?

Vain, weak-built isthmus, which dost proudly rise Up between two eternities!

But what does it mean, the plague? It's life, that's all.

I am satisfied with the mystery of the eternity of life.

My life is slowed up by thought and the need to understand what I am living.

I'm a realist all the way. I'm too cynical to be an optimist. But I've lived too much of a charmed life so far to ever be a pessimist.

The shortness of life, so often lamented, may be the best thing about it.