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Quotes About Philosophy

Life is crazy and meaningful at once.
~ Carl Jung
I think metaphysics is good if it improves everyday life; otherwise forget it.
~ Robert M. Pirsig
What am I then, my God? What is my nature? A life varied, multifaceted and truly immense.
~ Saint Augustine
Who would not shudder if he were given the choice of eternal death or life again as a child ? Who would not choose to die ?
~ Saint Augustine
I don't think there is a need for an entity like God in my life.
~ Salman Rushdie
I don't find life unbearably grave. I find it almost intolerably frivolous.
~ Sebastian Faulks
My point is that death is more tragic than life, than any life, because every life has hope of some kind.
~ Shalom Auslander
To go on and on about your soul is to miss the whole point of life. I could say that with more certainty if I knew the whole point of life.
~ Sheila Heti
The earthly meaning of eternal life was death, and she refused to die.
~ Simone de Beauvoir
Probably death is the best invention of life.
~ Steve Jobs
Music is our myth of the inner life.
~ Susanne Katherina Langer
You're asking me how not to doubt. Good question.My answer is, you can't. This is life
~ Tariq Ramadan
The soul, which is the first principle of life, is not a body, but the act of a body; just as heat, which is the principle of calefaction, is not a body, but an act of a body.
~ Thomas Aquinas
Who are you, Nature? I live in you; for fifty years I have been seeking you, and I have not found you yet.
~ Voltaire
The morality of the 21st century will depend on how we respond to this simple but profound question: Does every human life have equal moral value simply and merely because it is human?
~ Wesley J. Smith
Is death that which gives meaning to life? And I said, no, life is that which gives meaning to life.
~ Donald Barthelme
I am not resigned: I am not sure life is long enough to learn that lesson.
~ George Eliot
Sometimes I believe that this less material life is our truer life, and that our vain presence on the terraqueous globe is itself the secondary or merely virtual phenomenon.
~ H. P. Lovecraft
There is no true life within a false life.
~ Theodor Adorno
Our main motivation for living is our will to find meaning in life.
~ Viktor E. Frankl
Life gives meaning to life. The answer to the meaning of life is hidden right there inside the question.
~ Wendy Mass
If you have grasped the purpose of life there is no point in trying to make life into something it is not or cannot be.
~ Zhuangzi
The brain is just the physical machine that runs the program called the mind. The brain is the hardware, the mind is the software.
~ Dylan Evans
What fun is life without a little death?
~ Dylan Klebold