Quotes About Philosophy

The art of arguing is the art of living. We argue because we must, because life emends it, because, in the end, life itself is but an argument.

We can't turn life into a pleasure. But we can choose such pleasures as are worthy of us and our immortal souls.

Art and psychoanalysis give shape and meaning to life and that is why we adore them, but life as it is lived has no shape and meaning.

Tibetan Buddhism, has inspired me and accelerated my understanding of life.

Of all peoples the Greeks have dreamt the dream of life best.

Much earnest philosphical thought is born of the life which springs from close association with nature.

It is extreme evil to depart from the company of the living before you die.

I don't like the idea that I am going to come back as an ant or a sparrow if I don't get along in the great karma of life.

Things you believe are baggage in your life.

That is a real attitude - to see everything as being meaningful, even the less important things, to prove something, even the greater problems of life.

Our life dreams the Utopia. Our death achieves the Ideal.

Those who have compared our life to a dream were right... we were sleeping wake, and waking sleep.

Religion enables us to ignore nothingness and get on with the jobs of life.

The special virtue of freedom is not that it makes you richer and more powerful but that it gives you more time to understand what it means to be alive.

Not life, but good life, is to be chiefly valued." "It is not living that matters, but living rightly. The unexamined life is not worth living.

The mass of mankind are evidently slavish in their tastes, preferring a life suitable to beasts.

I want to die young at a ripe old age.

The problem of a painting is physical and metaphysical, the same as I think life is physical and metaphysical.

Life's neither a good nor an evil: it's a field for good and evil.

It is not living that matters, but living rightly.

'Rocky' represents the optimistic side of life, and 'Rambo' represents purgatory.

I think ideology is toxic, all ideology. It's not that there are good ones and bad ones. All ideology is toxic, because ideology is a kind of insult to the gift of human free thinking.

Art is life, life is art - the question is what came first?

I reject any path which rejects life, but I can't help loving Sufism because it sounds so beautiful. It gives relief in the midst of battle.