Quotes About Philosophy

what I think separates me from most philosophers probably is that I'm a bluesman in the life of the mind, I'm a jazzman in the world of ideas.

So long as you don't feel life's paltry and a miserable business, the rest doesn't matter, happiness or unhappiness.

Life can be beautiful when you understand the inconvenience of being born.

I think that G-O-D is like the answer to a formula for creating life.

Therefore the vast majority of the people who affirm leftist beliefs think of their views as the only way to properly think about life.

Life has no meaning but what we give it. I wish a few more of ye would give it a little.

Life in itself Is nothing, An empty cup, a flight of uncarpeted stairs.

Let's absurdify life, from east to west. Let us play hide-and-seek with our consciousness of living.

To choose ways of not acting was ever the concern and scruple of my life.

Art exists because life is not enough.

I do believe in reincarnation, but I do not believe there is life before noon.

Im a believer in getting punched in the face. I know it sounds cliched, but to me, fighting is a metaphor for life.

We physicists know that a beautiful postulate is more likely to be correct than an ugly one. Why not adopt this Postulate of Eternal Life, at least as a working hypothesis?

If you are interested in Taoism, I would suggest that you read the Way of Life by Lao Tsu, the founder of Taoism. I personally prefer the Witter Brynner translation.

Death is utterly acceptable to consciousness and life.

I think my stance and my way of life is my most important art.

To play Trivial Pursuit with a life like mine could be said to be a form of homeopathy.

If there is a soul, it is a mistake to believe that it is given to us fully created. It is created here, throughout a whole life. And living is nothing else but that long and painful bringing forth.

There are actually two approaches to reside your daily life. One is as if absolutely nothing is really a miracle. The other is as if every little thing is a wonder

But it is the province of religion, of philosophy, of pure poetry only, to go beyond life, beyond time, into eternity.

But certainly, for us who understand life, figures are a matter of indifference.

It is the activity of the intellect that constitutes complete human happiness - provided it be granted a complete span of life, for nothing that belongs to happiness can be incomplete.

Why, Robert Singh often wondered, did we give our hearts to friends whose life spans are so much shorter than our own?

The truth can wait, for it lives a long life.