Quotes About Philosophy

Life's perhaps the only riddle That we shrink from giving up.

Death doesn't affect the living because it has not happened yet. Death doesn't concern the dead because they have ceased to exist.

Philosophy is harmonized knowledge making a harmonious life; it is the self-discipline which lifts us to serenity and freedom. Knowledge is power, but only wisdom is liberty.

Martin in particular concluded that man was born to live either in the convulsions of misery, or in the lethargy of boredom.

I believe that life is a game, that life is a cruel joke, and that life is what happens when you're alive and that you might as well lie back and enjoy it.

Life is so impermanent that it's not about somebody else or things around me, it's about knowing you are completely alone in this world and being content inside.

Life's true face is the skull.

If nothing had any meaning, you would be right. But there is something that still has a meaning.

My philosophy in life is, Decide what you want to do. You have to have something to hope for.

Nothing is more dreadful in life than the profound thought that death may only greet you with eternal nothingness.

The stronger the reverence for natural life, the stronger grows also that for spiritual life.

There is philosophy, which is about conceptual analysis - about the meaning of what we say - and there is all of this ... all of life.

Life is just the time between crapping yourself.

Philosophers play with the word, like a child with a doll.... It does not mean that everything in life is relative.

I don't think atheism means one does not believe in a spiritual life. I think it means one does not follow the tenets of the established religions.

There is such a difference between life and theory.

I can no longer face life, so I've decided to go through the rest of it backwards.

Ethics is a code of values which guide our choices and actions and determine the purpose and course of our lives.

It is not death that we wish to avoid, but life that we wish to live.

One of the greatest tragedies of life is the murder of a beautiful theory by a gang of brutal facts.

To Buddha, the second figure in the painting, life on earth was bitter, filled with attachments and desires that led to suffering.

To think I have spent my life on absolute muck.

If it is an extraordinary blindness to live without investigating what we are, it is a terrible one to live an evil life, while believing in God

Well!' said Puddleglum, rubbing his hands. 'This is just what I needed. If these chaps don't teach me to take a serious view of life, I don't know what will.