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Quotes About Philosophy

The meaning of life, Nikodemos, is to live life with meaning. The purpose of life is merely to live it, perhaps to give it.
~ Janet Morris
The question is not to know what is the meaning of life, but what meaning I can give to my life.
~ Dalai Lama
Socrates said the unexamined life is not worth living. But the over-examined life makes you wish you were dead. Given the alternative, I'd rather be living.
~ Saul Bellow
The unexamined life is not worth living. But if all you're doing is examining, then you're not living!
~ Adam Leipzig
It was no human life that was involved in the matter, for that only is a human life which is a humane life.
~ Anna Kingsford
Is death that which gives meaning to life?
~ Donald Barthelme
It is notoriously difficult to define the word living.
~ Francis Crick
What is life? A continuous praise and blame.
~ Friedrich Nietzsche
The consciousness of life is higher than life.
~ Fyodor Dostoevsky
The greatest thing in life is to die young - but delay it as long as possible.
~ George Bernard Shaw
I'm not afraid of life and I'm not afraid of death: Dying's the bore.
~ Katherine Anne Porter
Life is the application of noble and profound ideas to life.
~ Matthew Arnold
Life is a dream and autumn is a dream within dream!
~ Mehmet Murat Ildan
Life is short, he thought. Art, or something not life, is long, stretching out endless, like [a] concrete worm. Flat, white, unsmoothed by any passage over or across it.
~ Philip K. Dick
You never know what life means till you die; even throughout life, tis death that makes life live.
~ Robert Browning
Belief in a future life is the appetite of reason.
~ Walter Savage Landor
The only remedy against the malady of life is life itself. The bane is its own antidote.
~ William John Locke
I really don't mind dying because I figure I haven't wasted this life.
~ Robert M. Pirsig
If you can find meaning in the type of running you need todo to stay on this team, chances are you can find meaning in another absurd pastime: Life.
~ Robert Towne
To me - the choice of life is become less important; I hope hereafter to think only on the choice of eternity.
~ Samuel Johnson
He who does not want to die should not want to live. For life is tendered to us with the proviso of death. Life is the way to this destination.
~ Seneca the Younger
We are wrong in looking forward to death: in great measure it's past already.
~ Seneca the Younger
Backwards understood be only can but, forwards lived be must life.
~ Soren Kierkegaard
We're making it up. The world, the universe, life, reality. Especially reality.
~ Tom Robbins