Quotes About Philosophy

If one was to think constantly of death, the business of life would stand still

Thus it seemed to Haeckel that such simple life could easily be produced from inanimate material.

Have you been able to think out and manage your own life? You have done the greatest task of all.... All other things, ruling, hoarding, building, are only little appendages and props, at most.

Were I to live my life over again, I should live it just as I have done. I neither complain of the past, nor do I fear the future.

I do not believe that the Good Lord plays dice.

Throw a theory into the fire; it only spoils life.

For the classics philosophical insight was the product of a life of leisure; for me a life of leisure is the product of philosophical insight.

Art has no need of philosophical arguments, it does not follow the signposts of philosophical systems; Art like life, dictates systems to philosophy.

I think...that I would rather recollect a life mis-spent on fragile things than spent avoiding moral debt.

There's never any closure in an awe-inspired life, only constant acceptance of the mysteries of life.

No one is entirely good or evil; that is what the Warrior thinks when he has a new opponent.

Well, to find, not the meaning of life because I believe in mysteries, I believe that there is a mystery that goes far beyond our understanding.

I have no evidence that libertarianism leads to a better life. I just think it is morally right.

You'll catch your death of cold. Clouseau: Yes, yes I probably will but . . . its all part of life's rich pageantry, you kneau.

A short death is the sovereign good hap of human life.

A live unexamined isn't worth living. I will add, "A life unlived isn't worth examining.

It is not wise to find symbols in everything that one sees. It makes life too full of terrors.

Convert life into truth.

The bitterest tragic element in life to be derived from an intellectual source is the belief in a brute Fate or Destiny.

We are so curiously made that one atom put in the wrong place in our original structure will often make us unhappy for life.

'Pure experience' is the name I gave to the immediate flux of life which furnishes the material to our later reflection with its conceptual categories.

It is silliness to live when to live is torment, and then have we a prescription to die when death is our physician.

When confronted with two alternatives, life and death, one is to choose death without hesitation.

For clearly it is impossible to touch eternity with one hand and life with the other.