Quotes About Philosophy

It is perhaps as difficult to write a good life as to live one.

Consider thyself to be dead, and to have completed thy life up to the present time; and live according to nature the remainder which is allowed thee.

People ask me what book politicians should read. They should read the life of Mahatma Gandhi.

A giving which gives only its gift, but in the giving holds itself back and withdraws, such a giving we call sending.

When I was 21 I wanted to write like Kafka. But, unfortunately for me, I wrote like a script editor for The Simpsons who'd briefly joined a religious cult and then discovered Foucault. Such is life.

...the ten thousand things belong to one storehouse and life and death share the same body.

I wonder if it hurts to live, And if they have to try, And whether, could they choose between, They would not rather die.

So long as human beings stay human, death and life are the same thing.

Where everything is bad it must be good to know the worst.

The cause of my life has been to oppose superstition. It's a battle you can't hope to win - it's a battle that's going to go on forever. It's part of the human condition.

I am confident of my ability to demonstrate that one can sometimes believe in something and yet not believe in it. Nothing is less fathomable than the systems that motivate our actions.

Meaning. If you're going to die, you want to find meaning in life. You want to connect the dots.

The best theology is rather a divine life than a divine knowledge.

I'm just a regular person who believes life is simple, and I like a simple life.

Sufi poetry is, in a sense, self-help poetry about how to live a decent life, how to deal with your mortality.

I always knew, on some level, that I wouldn't live long. It's simply not written in my stars.

Pegging your contentment to the overall state of the world rather than of your own life: the basis of morality, or a sort of madness?

Is a mountain only a huge stone? Is a planet an enormous mountain?

I felt as though I was partly unlearning what i had never learned and yet knew so well: I mean, how to live.

A live body and a dead body contain the same number of particles. Structurally, there's no discernible difference. Life and death are unquantifiable abstracts. Why should I be concerned?

Man…who lives in three places – in the past, in the present, and in the future – can be unhappy if one of these three is worthless. Religion has even added a fourth – eternity.

Atheists are my brothers and sisters of a different faith, and every word they speak speaks of faith. Like me, they go as far as the legs of reason will carry them -- and then they leap.

Socrates said the perfect society would be based on a great lie. People would be told that lie from the cradle, and they would believe it, because human beings need to make order out of chaos.

What is the meaning of life? Life has the meaning that you give it.