Quotes About Philosophy

Throughout his life Newton must have devoted at least as much attention to chemistry and theology as to mathematics.

In the real life-process, willing, feeling, and thinking are only different aspects.

The living is a species of the dead; and not a very attractive one.

I have not come to know atheism as a result of logical reasoning and still less as an event in my life: in me it is a matter of instinct.

Life [had] replaced logic.

Politics is how you think about life itself.

Nothing remains beautiful and interesting except thought, because the thought is the life.

Not even nothingness preceded life. Nothingness owes its very idea to existence.

It is the acme of life to understand life.

If there's a reason for the way that life is I'd like to find it. After all, who's life is it?

Life is cruel. Why should the afterlife be any different!

We do not live by justice, but by grace.

Oh the piercing sadness of life in the midst of its ordinariness!

To think that so much comes to so little, to think that life is really short.

It's all the same - no good without evil, no balance...no maat. If we lose one, we lose the other. It's just life, that's all.

I always have been introspective, since I was a little kid, since I could remember, I was sitting in a closet trying to write out the meaning of the universe. That's been my whole life.

Viewed from the summit of reason, all life looks like a malignant disease and the world like a madhouse.

The outcome of a still veracitless life. Am I livin' it right?

Why does life feel, to us as we experience it, so desperately urgent and so utterly pointless at the same time?

I got incredibly heavy boots about how relatively insignificant life is, and how, compared to the universe and compared to time, it didn't even matter if I existed at all.

A train of thought is never false. The falsehood lies deep in the necessities of existence.

If one cannot get along without a mirror, even in shaving oneself, how can one reconstruct oneself or one's life, without seeing oneself in the "mirror" of literature?

There is no life without death. That is the true meaning of yin and yang

Recommend virtue to your children, that alone - not wealth - can give happiness. It upholds in adversity and the thought of it and my art prevents me from putting an end to my life.