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Quotes About Philosophy

It is not death that kills us, but life. We are done to death by life.
~ Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings
The Simple Life is not a simple life.
~ Mason Cooley
If you have a complex life, make it simple; if you have a simple life, continue it that way!
~ Mehmet Murat Ildan
It would be fair in terms of justice that those who believe in 'Life After Death' live much less than those who do not believe in such a thing!
~ Mehmet Murat Ildan
Only idiots die for an idea! Life is greater and infinitely more valuable than all the ideas!
~ Mehmet Murat Ildan
People or philosophers keep saying that our fundamental objective in life is to be happy! This is wrong! Our fundamental objective in life is to exist, either happy or unhappy!
~ Mehmet Murat Ildan
The sages say that life is illusion, but does that change its poignancy?
~ Ming-Dao Deng
So when I think of, what is the meaning of life, to me, that's not an eternal unanswerable question. To me it is in arms reach of me every day.
~ Neil deGrasse Tyson
Recognizing the absurdity of life is also a way of surviving.
~ Noa Ben Artzi-Pelossof
Life is as serious a thing as death.
~ Philip James Bailey
No theory of life seemed to him to be of any importance compared with life itself
~ Oscar Wilde
The sure way of knowing nothing about life is to try to make oneself useful.
~ Oscar Wilde
Life in itself is so beautiful that to ask the question of the meaning of life is simply nonsense.
~ Rajneesh
We have to find our own purposes in life, which are not derived directly from our scientific history.
~ Richard Dawkins
We animals live life in all its glorious uncertainty. Why do politicians think they can control events?
~ Rita Mae Brown
The world and life's too big to pass for a dream
~ Robert Browning
Life is an empty dream.
~ Robert Browning
Why be in music, why write songs, if you can't use them to explore life or an idealized vision of life?
~ Rufus Wainwright
I have a philosophy, folks, and it's based on my own life. I'm using my own life experiences to philosophize about things in general. It has to do with desire.
~ Rush Limbaugh
It is astonishing that any man can forbear enquiring seriously whether there is a God; whether God is just; whether this life is the only state of existence.
~ Samuel Johnson
He is a benefactor of mankind who contracts the great rules of life into the short sentences, that may be easily impressed on the memory, and so recur habitually to the mind.
~ Samuel Johnson
Tota vita nihil aliud quam ad mortem iter est. The whole of life is nothing but a journey to death.
~ Seneca the Younger
Neither in my private life nor in my writings, have I ever made a secret of being an out-and-out unbeliever.
~ Sigmund Freud
I'm more interested in life than life-style.
~ Stephanie Zimbalist