Quotes About Philosophy

Intellectuals should never marry; they won't enjoy it; and besides, they should not reproduce themselves.

Ha, but my life is a box of wormgears.

Progress, then, is a property of the evolution of life as a whole by almost any conceivable intuitive standard.... let us not pretend to deny in our philosophy what we know in our hearts to be true.

The tragic sense of life: our heroic acceptance of the suffering of others.

Life is cruel? Compared to what?

Mad? Is one who has solved the secret of life to be considered mad?

Life is really fascinated only by death. It vibrates only when it comes in contact with death.

All my life I have said, "Whatever happens there will always be tables and chairs"--and what a mistake.

Theories have nothing to do with life.

Maybe Life is random. No fate. No God. Just Time.

Might as Well Laugh ...remember ...when ...Life ...made ...sense

All talk of method and style seemed suddenly trivial; I became interested in meaning. I wanted to say something musically about life and living.

If just once you were depressed for no reason, you have been so all your life without knowing.

Life is not like Gloomy Sunday, with a second ending when the people are disturbed.

To a longer and worse life, a shorter and better is by all means to be preferred.

Let's first ask, what is life? And immediately we are stumped.

To lose one's life is but to lose the present; and, clearly, to lose a defiled, worthless present is not to lose much.

Everything seemed meaningless to me. All of a sudden. My own life, the lives of others, of animals of plants, the whole world. It no longer fitted together.

Early in my life I had made a pact with myself. I would never eat anything that moved when I cooked it, excited the dog, or inflated upon impact with my teeth.

One can no more look steadily at death than at the sun.

Who claims that the heathen's view of the world is incorrect? Life gives you nothing! It is ruled by false gods! Nothing remains true to you but your own self; provided you remain true to it.

Schiller is an important philosopher because he shows just how integral the idea of beauty is in normal life.

I don't think people should be primarily concerned with money or material success. They should be concerned with doing that which is right and being in harmony with the way of life.

Many aspects of life cannot be explained through logic or reason. The reasoning part of the mind simply doesn't have the capacity to understand the many whys and how's of being and non-being.