Quotes About Philosophy

There has to be evil so that good can prove its purity above it. To live a pure unselfish life, one must count nothing as one's own in the midst of abundance.

Everyone dies whether one is good in their lifetime or evil in their lifetime. So virtue has no payback. Life is meaningless. When you die, you die!

Accept life, and you must accept regret.

I am going to pretend that all life is just a game which I must play as skilfully and fairly as I can. If I lose, I am going to shrug my shoulders and laugh—also if I win.

Death is a gift. Without it we wouldn't value life.

You know those things that you throw the twigs into and it spits them out? That's what I do. The branches are like life, and I throw them into my head and some of it comes out as humor.

People were always getting ready for tomorrow. I didn't believe in that. Tomorrow wasn't getting ready for them. It didn't even know they were there.

The continuous narrative of existence is a lie. There is no continuous narrative, there are lit-up moments, and the rest is dark.

To regard the imagination as metaphysics is to think of it as part of life, and to think of it as part of life is to realize the extent of artifice. We live in the mind.

What good is it to live a life that brings pains?

Even if I have hundreds of things to do, the disconnected feeling is still there because it is very hard to find a real purpose of life.

Judging whether life is or is not worth living amounts to answering the fundamental question of philosophy.

The content of scientific theory itself offers no moral foundation for the personal conduct of life.

The actuality of thought is life.

It's the augmented fourth, or diminished fifth, depending on your outlook on life.

To be content with life or to live merrily, rather all that is required is that we bestow on all things only a fleeting, superficial glance; the more thoughtful we become the more earnest we grow.

God bless the homicidal maniacs. They make life worthwhile.

If you find life absurd, shouldn't you find death precisely meaningful?

Dreams are real as long as they last. Can we say more of life?

So our human life but dies down to its root, and still puts forth its green blade to eternity.

Upon the demon-ridden pilgrimage of human life, what next I wonder.

A person who can really be called an unselfish person, has no place in life.

Being is. Being is in-itself. Being is what it is.

I am neither virgin nor priest enough to play with the inner life.