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Quotes About Philosophy

Reality is the page. Life is the word.
~ David Mitchell
Infinity is just zero spelled backwards.
~ Derek R. Audette
The examined life has always been pretty well confined to a privileged class.
~ Edgar Friedenberg
Life itself suggests a higher good than life itself can yield.
~ Edwin Hubbel Chapin
Look - I understand that an unexamined life is not worth living, but do you think I could someday have an unexamined lunch?
~ Elizabeth Gilbert
In the Bhagavad-Gita, a dialogue ensues in the middle of a battlefield, symbolizing the battlefield of life which we are fighting through our illusions.
~ Frederick Lenz
I don't see myself as anything. I just wander around getting on with my life.
~ Michael Caine
Even if you don't believe in God, you still have to believe in something that gives meaning to your life, and shapes your sense of the world. Such a belief is religious.
~ Michael Crichton
I wrote on my desk wall when I was writing the film...'Art is socialism, but life is capitalism.' That's the hard thing in all of it if you expect to make a living.
~ Mike Birbiglia
I'm an optimist, so I believe in some sort of life after death; I don't know what kind.
~ Mike Dirnt
I never really understood fashion as a career. For me, it was really a state of mind, more like something that I always had in my life.
~ Nadege Vanhee-Cybulski
I always see the absurdity in most situations. It's my experience of how life works.
~ Natasha Lyonne
Life isn't, and has never been, a 2-0 home victory after a fish and chip lunch.
~ Nick Hornby
How you approach the problem of suffering depends on how you approach life itself. There are only two ways. Either meaning is surrounded by matter, or matter is surrounded by meaning.
~ Peter Kreeft
Why is life so complicated....?' I asked. 'To keep us from being bored,' he said.
~ Phyllis Reynolds Naylor
Life here with the things of the earth is a sinking, a defeat, a failing of the wing.
~ Plotinus
I can't remember ever having a tragic demeanor. Although my life was tragedy.
~ Quentin Crisp
There is a conservation of matter and of energy, there may be a conservation of life; or if not of life, of something which transcends life.
~ Oliver Lodge
I think life too complex a thing to be settled by these hard and fast rules.
~ Oscar Wilde
Life is heavier than the weight of all things.
~ Rainer Maria Rilke
By degrees we may come to know the primitive sense of the permanent objects of nature, so that the world shall be to us an open book, and every form significant of its hidden life and final cause.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
The way you see your life shapes your life.
~ Rick Warren
We're rediscovering Christianity as an Eastern religion, as a way of life.
~ Rob Bell
Our consciousness, our ideas, our frame of reference and our belief system determine whether we go to the river of life with a teaspoon, a cup, a bucket or a barrel.
~ Robert Anthony