Quotes About Philosophy

Art is life, life is life, but to lead life artistically is the art of life.

There is an immense, painful longing for a broader, more flexible, fuller, more coherent, more comprehensive account of what we human beings are, who we are and what this life is for.

Is life worth living? It all depends on the liver.

Life involves maintaining oneself between contradictions that can't be solved by analysis.

Life's most precious gift is uncertainty.

There are three modes of bearing the ills of life; by indifference, which is the most common; by philosophy, which is the most ostentatious; and by religion, which is the most effectual.

We can see unmistakeably that there is an inner relationship between Zen and the warrior's life.

The two biggest self-deceptions of all are that life has a 'meaning'and each of us is unique.

Oh, isn't life a terrible thing, thank God?

I take life for what it has to offer me. I don't get aggravated about [getting older]. The wrinkles on my face are a natural process, so why should I get angry?

What is life but playing with time?

Why should I live? Why should I do anything? Is there in life any purpose which the inevitable death that awaits me does not undo and destroy?

We are asleep. Our Life is a dream. But we wake up sometimes, just enough to know that we are dreaming.

One must, in one's life, make a choice between boredom and suffering.

To be, or not to be; that is the bare bodkin That makes calamity of so long life.

We know nothing. And just because you know something to be true at this moment in your life or you feel that it is true, you can never be sure of yourself.

Surely there must be a better gift God could have given us than life?

There is no perfection only life

I don't subscribe to relativism, whether it's in political philosophy, foreign policy or in life.

By dislaiming the idea of a next life, we can take more excitement in this one!

I have never been able to see life as anything but a vast complicated practical joke, and it's better to laugh than cry.

The value of life itself cannot be estimated.

Not he is great who can alter matter, but he who can alter my state of mind.

Whether one showed you and execution or a little finger, you would extract an equally edifying thought from both of them, and would still be content. That's the way to get on in life.