Quotes About Philosophy

Futility is the defining characteristic of life.

I live by 'Earnin' and burnin'.' Meaning, I like to make money and spend it before I even have it. That's the way I live my life.

Yes, death, the hourly possibility of it, death is the sublimity of life.

In every age the wisest have passed the identical judgment on life: it is worthless.

That lies should be necessary to life is part and parcel of the terrible and questionable character of existence.

A Dionysian life task needs the hardness of the hammer and one of its first essentials is without doubt the joy to be found even in destruction.

Nothing in life possesses value except the degree of power--assuming that life itself is the will to power.

My mother is probably the wisest person I've ever known. She's not schooled, she's not well read. But she has a philosophy of life that makes well-read people seem like morons.

The early Christian rules of life were not made to last, because the early Christians did not believe that the world itself was going to last.

Plain women he regarded as he did the other severe facts of life, to be faced with philosophy and investigated by science.

I like to walk about among the beautiful things that adorn the world; but private wealth I should decline, or any sort of personal possessions, because they would take away my liberty.

Atheism is a theoretical formulation of the discouraged life.

Everything in life is a metaphor.

Life might just be an absurd, even crude, chain of events and nothing more.

Life's to short for chess.

Aw, where we come from the Anti-Life Equation is one of many others--almost as awesome!! But they merely exist!!

Life if curious when reduced to its essentials

The more absurd life is, the more insupportable death is.

I had dreamed my life for nearly fifty years (I am about to be fifty-nine). But, you see, there are two tones in Les Mats: the echo of this condemnation and a mitigation of that severity.

Life has no plot, why must films or fiction?

The advance of scientific knowledge does not seem to make either our universe or our inner life in it any less mysterious.

The good die young, because they see it's no use living if you have got to be good.

I just see myself as a human being that's concerned about life.

Death is the essential condition of life, not an evil.