Quotes About Philosophy

Self discovery doesn't not seek to bring you answers about your personal life or philosophically comfort you about life and death. What it does is bring you into reality as perception itself.

The idea that reincarnation means all beings eventually reach enlightenment is not true. Life does not have a fixed purpose. It just is.

All prejudices may be traced back to the intestines. A sedentary life is the real sin against the Holy Ghost.

But eternal liveliness is what counts: what does "eternal life" matter, or life at all?

I have no wish to take life, not even human life

If you look at your life and compare your life to that of an evil person, you will find that in most regards both lives are the same. You don't live a longer life or live forever by being virtuous.

If you start asking how do we make life meaningful and life never ends, then you get into sort of these terrible sort of metaphysical quandaries and it gets really, really bleak looking.

I do not know how to distinguish between waking life and a dream. Are we not always living the life that we imagine we are?

I live my life by the numbers. Not only am I an American, I am an Americanist.

Life is a gift horse in my opinion.

Death is a part of life, and eventually I assimilated that completely.

My worthy friend, gray are all theories And green alone Life's golden tree.

As Socrates I believe said the unexamined life is not worth living. I believe that's true. I do believe that.

Maybe there isn't a meaning to life. Maybe there's only a meaning to living.

Life is not determined by consciousness, but consciousness by life.

Life is too meaningful to die.

My god-life! who can understand eve one little minute of it? 'don't try' he said 'just pretend you understand.

I'd say that most of life seems to me to be that way, a mixture of the mundane and the mythic, when you're living the life of the mind.

Some old guy once said that the meaning of life is that it ends.

In itself a thought, a slumbering thought is capable of years; and curdles a long life into one hour.

what's life good fer anyhow? The minute you crawl into the world for no good reason of yer own, it's got you licked four ways from the ace.

The Enlightened one has told you in never-to-be-forgotten words that this little span of life is but a passing shadow, a fleeting thing.

Life is short. That's all there is to say. Get what you can from the present - thoughtfully, justly.

In life, we weep at the thought of death. In death, perhaps we weep at the thought of life.