Quotes About Philosophy

We choose to believe that the granite is alive. If life is movement, then rock - with its atoms flying around like stars in cosmos - is alive.

It is true that I have known Straussians almost all my life. And the one thing I was taught about them from the earliest age is that they are wrong.

I think the pursuit of trying to understand things is really a critical issue. I see the issue of life and death in everything I do. I'm trying to find answers. It can be quite frustrating.

The Buddha takes no position on gods, he suggests they may exist or they may not, but either way you can live a moral life.

I don't have a distaste for ambiguity, in fact, ambiguity is what I think life is all about.

The uncertainty of death is, in effect, the great support of the whole system of life.

Surely a long life must be somewhat tedious, since we are forced to call in so many trifling things to help rid us of our time, which will never return.

Virtue is that perfect good, which is the complement of a happy life; the only immortal thing that belongs to mortality.

Our care should not be to have lived long as to have lived enough.

No one can have a peaceful life who thinks too much about lengthening it.

Our life is but a grain of sand in the indifferent ocean of infinity.

The only answer to the question of the meaning of life has to begin from the fact of our human finitude, of our vulnerability and our fallibility.

Marry a good woman, and be happy the rest of your life. Or, marry a bad, and become a good philosopher

I saw something even more beautiful than a sense of humor: an appreciation for life's essential absurdity.

If you're studying Geology, which is all facts, as soon as you get out of school you forget it all, but Philosophy you remember just enough to screw you up for the rest of your life.

Taking life seriously requires taking death seriously.

If death is the absence of life, then death's death is life.

Alchemy is really the secret tradition of the redemption of spirit from matter.

Death is always, under all circumstances, a tragedy, for if it is not then it means that life has become one.

We term sleep a death, and yet it is waking that kills us, and destroys those spirits that are the house of life.

I believe in one God, and no more; and I hope for happiness beyond this life.

In the secular view, suffering is never seen as a meaningful part of life but only as an interruption.

I believe, whatever God does, he does it for the good. I always try to look at life like that.

The last book I read was the book I've been rereading most of my life, The Fountainhead.