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Quotes About Philosophy

There is nothing the busy man is less busied with than living; there is nothing harder to learn.
~ Seneca the Younger
The idea of life having a purpose stands and falls with the religious system.
~ Sigmund Freud
The most important part of living is not the living but the pondering upon it.
~ Sinclair Lewis
Life without enquiry is not worth living for a man.
~ Socrates
To the Indian mind there is nothing higher than religious ideals, that this is the keynote of Indian life.
~ Swami Vivekananda
From your first day at school you are cut off from life to make theories.
~ Taisen Deshimaru
You have to adhere to a philosophy that the life unexamined is not worth living, because otherwise you're just living from day to day and you don't have any real sense of yourself or where you are.
~ Tom Hanks
All mystical experience is coincidence; and vice versa, of course.
~ Tom Stoppard
Let life be beautiful like summer flowers and death be like autumn leaves. Rabindranath Tagore What a simple thing death is, just as simple as the falling of an autumn leaf.
~ Vincent Van Gogh
Life is bristling with thorns, and I know no other remedy than to cultivate one's garden.
~ Voltaire
It's making a statement about what life is, really. And I'm going to end the line with it.
~ Wayne Shorter
Let us be moral. Let us contemplate existence.
~ Charles Dickens
As I continued through Cicero's pages, I found much more material celebrating my way of life.
~ Charlie Munger
The origin of the absurd idea of immortal life is easy to discover; it is kept alive by hope and fear, by childish faith, and by cowardice.
~ Clarence Darrow
Zen approaches it from the practical side of life-that is, to work out Enlightenment in life itself.
~ D.T. Suzuki
Probably I am very naive, but I also think I prefer to remain so, at least for the time being and perhaps for the rest of my life.
~ Edsger Dijkstra
It's a kind of philosophy of my own life, to create the energy enough to keep on going.
~ Ernie Banks
The concept of life and perfection is incompatible. BUT so is death and perfection
~ Murray Rothbard
You just become adaptable and try to lead a good life in ways that make sense, regardless. Because I know at the end of it, if I'm going to meet Jesus or Allah or Buddha, I'm going to be all right.
~ Neil Peart
Tragedy has the great moral defect of giving too much importance to life and death.
~ Nicolas Chamfort
A warrior accepts defeat. He does not treat it as a matter of indifference nor does he try to make a victory of it.
~ Paulo Coelho
On the whole, I am on the side of the unregenerate who affirms the worth of life as an end in itself, as against the saints who deny it.
~ Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
Think deeply about life, it's worth it!
~ Jon Foreman
Surrealism is anathema for me. Because the surrealists made a joke of everything. And I consider life a tragedy.
~ Louise Bourgeois