Quotes About Philosophy

I'm just into spirituality. I believe that in a previous life I used to be Shirley MacLaine.

Chronological time does not exist; what indeed exists is esoteric time, because life is an eternal instant.

I had been reading this book about Zen Koan philosophy, and it was talking about the right here and the right now, and how important it is, and I was really trying to get there in my life.

Life is most delightful on the downward slope.

Life, it seems, is not meaningless but, rather, so full of meaning that its meaning must be constantly murdered for the sake of cohesion and comprehension. For the sake of the storyline.

When I'm lying in my bed, I think about life and I think about death. And neither one particularly appeals to me.

This is the line of life, this is the line of growth, and this is the line of well-being in India - to follow the track of religion.

This craving for health, wealth, long life, and the like - the so - called good - is nothing but an illusion.

Life has become the ideology of its own absence.

To emphasize the afterlife is to deny life. To concentrate on heaven is to create hell.

Maybe those nihilist philosophers are right; maybe this is all we can expect of the universe, a relentless crushing of life and spirit, because the equilibrium state of the cosmos is death.

What a pessimist you are!" exclaimed Candide. "That is because I know what life is," said Martin.

What our eyes behold may well be the text of life but one's meditations on the text and the disclosures of these meditations are no less a part of the structure of reality.

The service of philosophy, of speculative culture, towards the human spirit, is to rouse, to startle it to a life of constant and eager observation.

Yes, very sensible... People die of common sense, Dorian, one lost moment at a time. Life is a moment. There is no hereafter. So make it burn always with the hardest flame.

When she was younger, my mother was quite committed to Roman Catholicism. But she got disillusioned with it and moved closer to something like Buddhist beliefs near the end of her life.

What is essential is not the answer but the questions; the answers indeed are the death of the life that is in the questions.

My theory is to enjoy life, but my practice is against it.

The answer is there is no answer.

Life shouldn't be printed on dollar bills.

Do not seek death. Death will find you.

The first ideas of religion arose, not from contemplation of the works of nature, but from a concern with regard to the events of life.

Reason can never reconcile one to life: nothing allays the wants one cannot explain.

We are so lonely in life that we must ask ourselves if the loneliness of dying is not a symbol of our human existence.