Quotes About Philosophy

I think. I am. I will.

Life seems to me essentially passion, conflict, rage. It is only intellect that keeps me sane; perhaps this makes me overvalue intellect against feeling.

This has been my life. I have found it worth living, and would gladly live it again if the second chance were offered me.

I think it makes sense to believe in God, but exactly what decision in your life you make differently because of it, I don't know.

In the midst of life we are in debt.

I don't have a religion, you know. This is what I am. I am a Rastaman; so this is not religion. This is life.

When we are able to receive life's challenges as koans rather than problems, they become interesting and exciting, rather than ponderous and depressing.

I have wondered why is it that some people are less affected and torn by the verities of life and death that others.

I have remained someone who believes that the only things indispensable to human life are air, food, drink and excretion, and the search for truth. The rest is optional.

The perfect human being is uninteresting-the Buddha who leaves the world, you know. It is the imperfections of life that are lovable.

The principal fact of life is the free mind.

I'm seeking to make sense of life, looking for its meaning and how we can have a better humanity.

The worst insult I can inflict on life is that I do not reflect on its meaning.

What you believe in, is the life you decide.

The ethical argument regarding abortion hinges on the question of when life begins. Some believe life begins at forty.

I am a poet who composes what life proses, and who proses what life composes.

There is one other book, that can teach you everything you need to know about life... it's The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoyevsky, but that's not enough anymore.

Philosophers, especially metaphysicians, explore features of reality and of our mental life that are different from those explored by scientists.

Those who have hardened, have a covenant with Death. Those who remain gentle are conjoined with Life.

The reason why the universe is eternal is that it does not live for itself; it gives life to others as it transforms.

Why do the people think so little of death? Because the rulers demand too much of life. Therefore the people take death lightly.

Early Christianity, like Roman-era philosophical traditions, laid emphasis on everyday behavior, about how to live your life.

Is all our Life, then but a dream Seen faintly in the golden gleam Athwart Time's dark resistless stream?

Like the philosopher, the author views his task as one of establishing a clear connection between life and history, and of making the past bear fruit for the present and future.