Quotes About Philosophy

Tell me not, in mournful numbers, Life is but an empty dream!

One always dies too soon or too late. And yet, life is there, finished: the line is drawn, and it must all be added up. You are nothing other than your life.

But the present life should never be hated, except insofar as it subjects us to sin, although even that hatred should not properly be applied to life itself.

Knowing this to be a worthless life to live, why do I keep living on? Because this life contains something called beauty7.

If you would behold the spirit of death, open your heart wide unto the body of life. For life and death are one, even as the river and sea are one.

The universe is in change, life is an opinion.

Of chess it has often been said that life is not long enough for it - but that is the fault of life, not chess.

Happy the man, and happy he alone, he who can call today his own; he who, secure within, can say, tomorrow do thy worst, for I have lived today.

If our souls be immortal, this makes amends for the frailties of life and the sufferings of this state.

What is a god? A god is a personification of a motivating power of a value system that functions in human life and in the universe.

We owe much to the fruitful meditation of our sages, but a sane view of life is, after all, elaborated mainly in the kitchen.

Socialism is good when it comes to wages, but it tells me nothing when it comes to other questions in life that are more private and painful, for which I must seek answers elsewhere.

Your ideas come out of the way you conduct your life.

There is no such thing as real happiness in life. The justest definition that was ever given of it was "a tranquil acquiescence under an agreeable delusion"--I forget where.

Martial arts has just made me a better person. It's a way of life.

Life is a crisis - so what!

I harp always on the 'idea' of life as I dwell perpetually on the existence of the moment.

In any event, a truth that disheartens, because it is true, is still of far more value than the most stimulating of falsehoods.

If you don't have solid beliefs, you cannot build a stable life. Beliefs are like the foundation of a building, and they are the foundation to build your life upon.

The guiding motto in the life of every natural philosopher should be, seek simplicity and distrust it.

Empty-brained triflers who have never tried to think, who take their creed as they take their fashions, speak of atheism as the outcome of foul life and vicious desires.

It is easy to be a philosopher in academia, but it is very difficult to be a philosopher in life.

Business or toil is merely utilitarian. It is necessary but does not enrich or ennoble a human life.

I've been feminist for most of my life, it is a constantly evolving idea, not something static.