Quotes About Philosophy

Teachings that defy reason defy reality; what defies reality defies life. Defying life is embracing death.

Believe in something for another world, but don't be too set on what it is, and then you won't start out that life with a disappontment. Live your life so that whenever you lose you are ahead.

Life is a fragment, a moment between two eternities.

Life is too transcendentally humorous for a man not to take it seriously. Compared with it, Death is but a shallow jest.

But thought's the slave of life, and life time's fool.

The most precious thing in life is its uncertainty

A living man is blind and drinks his drop. What matter if the ditches are impure? What matter if I live it all once more?

...thinking as he had thought before and would think again and as every other man has thought: how false the most profound book turns out to be when applied to life.

Of Belief Human mathematics, so to speak, like the length of life, are subject to the doctrine of chances.

Life's scientific, but we don't know, do we? Not certainly, I mean.

The most rational cure after all for the inordinate fear of death is to set a just value on life.

Perhaps the best cure for the fear of death is to reflect that life has a beginning as well as an end.

The intellectual life of man consists almost wholly in his substitution of conceptual order for the perceptual order in which his experience originally comes.

For death remembered should be like a mirror, Who tells us life's but breath, to trust it error.

Reason thus with life: If I do lose thee, I do lose a thing That none but fools would keep.

Take the sweet poetry of life away, and what remains behind?

You may not believe in life, but I don't believe in death. Move on!

After reaching 50, I began to wonder what the root of life is.

The true man breathes with his heels.

Belief in mysteries, any manner of mysteries, is the only lasting luxury in life.

Life would continue to exist and grow. Cause and effect still exist even where there is no time.

The genius of religions is that they structure the inner life.

So many little lives, amounting to nothing. I ask you: What is infinity multiplied by zero? It is hardly worth our discussion.

As soon as one does not kill oneself, one must keep silent about life.