Quotes About Philosophy

If the existence of human beings leads to nothing, what is all this comedy about?

Creating-that is the great salvation from suffering, and life's alleviation. But for the creator to appear, suffering itself is needed, and much transformation.

If a man have a strong faith he can indulge in the luxury of skepticism.

We do not understand that life is paradise, for it suffices only to wish to understand it, and at once paradise will appear in front of us in its beauty.

But what if Shakespeare? and Hamlet? were asking the wrong question? What if the real question is not whether to be, but how to be?

There is no why. We are. Life is beyond reason.

Music is essentially useless, as is life.

Even when you're making a movie about life, death is a presence, and I guess it's part of my dramatic viewpoint. I'm not sure why exactly.

Everything passes. There is great beauty in this, both in the passing of pain and in the passing of pleasure. When things present themselves to you as permanent, don't believe it.

My philosophy of life is that the meek shall inherit nothing but debasement, frustration, and ignoble deaths.

Maybe the only thing I can definitely say about is this: That's life. Maybe the only thing we can do is accept it, without really knowing what's going on.

The test of all beliefs is their practical effect in life. If it be true that optimism compels the world forward, and pessimism retards it, then it is dangerous to propagate a pessimistic philosophy.

Why should we be startled by death? Life is a constant putting off of the mortal coil - coat, cuticle, flesh and bones, all old clothes.

Expedients are for the hour, but principles are for the ages.

Life has the name of life, but in reality it is death.

Suicide, moreover, was at the time in vogue in Paris: what more suitable key to the mystery of life for a skeptical society?

There are no grounds for supposing that one can live a life without pain and sadness, but is it wrong to believe that somehow, somewhere, this is possible?

The price we pay for the complexity of life is too high.

I still understand a few words in life, but I no longer think they make a sentence.

Gray are all the theories, But green is the tree of life.

The real fighter knows perfectly well that there is no difference between victory and defeat, friend and enemy, day and night, life and death.

If we value so highly the dignity of life, how can we not also value the dignity of death No death may be called futile.

The examined life is the only life worth living.

Larry Grobel senses there are no answers in life, only questions. Good ones.