Quotes About Philosophy

What is death all about? What is life all about?

Every day confirms my opinion on the superiority of a vicious life, and if Virtue is not its own reward, I don't know any other stipend annexed to it.

To this principle of vanity, which philosophers call a mean one, and which I do not, I owe a great part of the figure which I have made in life.

And to imagine a language means to imagine a form of life.

Every sign by itself seems dead. What gives it life?--In use it is alive. Is life breathed into it there?--Or is the use its life?

Here the term 'language-game' is meant to bring into prominence the fact that the speaking of language is part of an activity, of a form of life.

It may be, it just may be, that life as we know it with its humanity is more unique than many have thought.

My life has been full of external tragedies and if they have not left any visible effect on me, I owe it to the teaching of the Bhagavadgita.

One of the stupidest theories of Western life.

We feel in one world, we think and name in another. Between the two we can set up a system of references, but we cannot fill in the gap.

The world is nothing but change, our life is only perception.

A person's life is what their thoughts make it.

The act of dying is one of the acts of life.

Deem not life a thing of consequence. For look at the yawning void of the future, and at that other limitless space, the past.

We should not be so taken up in the search for truth, as to neglect the needful duties of active life; for it is only action that gives a true value and commendation to virtue.

I have never seen what to me seemed an atom of proof that there is a future life. And yet-I am inclined to expect one.

I don't want to escape via intellectual ruses – I want affirmations via passionate embraces & you can't have life unless you live it.

I think retirement beats the heck out of life after death, that's for sure.

I keep saying, Shakespeare, Shakespeare, you are as obscure as life is.

I have a simple principle for the conduct of life- never to resist an adequate temptation.

We decided that it was no good asking what is the meaning of life, because life isn't an answer, life is the question, and you, yourself, are the answer.

The happy life is to an extraordinary extent the same as the good life.

I'm not someone who dwells upon past events, taking the view that life is too short

...that not life, but a good life, is to be chiefly valued.