Quotes About Philosophy

For the most part, quantum theory has been of little practical value in my life.

If asked my philosophy, it would be simply this: Savor life, don't press too hard, don't worry too much.

[on the secret to a happy, content life] Do you want to know what my secret is? I don't mind what happens.

Was there ever in anyone's life span a point free in time, devoid of memory, a night when choice was any more than the sum of all the choices gone before?

Superstition is the poesy of practical life; hence, a poet is none the worse for being superstitious.

How do I know that loving life is not a delusion? How do I know that in hating death I am not like a man who, having left home in his youth, has forgotten the way back?

One must live in the middle of contradiction, because if all contradiction were eliminated at once life would collapse.

Where once the student was taught that the unexamined life was not worth living, he is now taught that the profitably lived life is not worth examining.

It may be true that the unexamined life is not worth living-but neither is the unlived life worth examining.

Always like to look on the optimistic side of life, but I am realistic enough to know that life is a complex matter. Walt Disney Every decision you make is a mistake.

Human life is beyond comprehension.

Life is a dead-end street.

For boredom speaks the language of time, and it is to teach you the most valuable lesson of your life - the lesson of your utter insignificance.

The values of life are most important.

For life in the present there is no death. Death is not an event in life. It is not a fact in the world.

It is not a matter of life and death. It is not that important. But it is a reflection of life, and so the game is an enigma wrapped in a mystery impaled on a conundrum.

My philosophy of life can be summed up in four words: It can't be helped.

I've learned to control everything. I don't get angry at anything. Somebody can do me wrong. That's life. What good is it to get angry?

Beauty is assailed from two directions - by the cult of ugliness in the arts, and by the cult of utility in everyday life.

Faith enables many of us to endure life's difficulties with an equanimity that would be scarcely conceivable in a world lit only by reason.

We [people] may enjoy this fleeting beauty [of life] for such a brief instance. And then we are compost. G - , the creator-destroyer, certainly has a strange sense of humor!

If life must not be taken too seriously, then so neither must death.

Alexander the Great valued learning so highly, that he used to say he was more indebted to Aristotle for giving him knowledge than to his father Philip for life.

Throughout the whole of life one must continue to learn to live and what will amaze you even more, throughout life you must learn to die. Seneca (Roman philosopher)