Quotes About Philosophy

The Buddhist message is a message not of the negation of life, but one of affirmation.

Taoism shows us how to deal with life and death by realizing everything here is transitory but its substance is eternal.

Some people think Taoism means not doing anything, just going on with your life. That has little or nothing to do with Taoism.

Death is not a mystery; it is very simple and clear! It is the life which is the complex and the mystic one!

I have a gold bullion and a 'one additional minute for your life' in my hand; as a gift, if you choose the second one, then I say you are a wise person!

If you want to own the life, you must first own the death! To own the death, you must understand it! To understand it, you must know to think like the death!

In the presence of death, no philosophy of life can feel triumphant!

It is both theoretically and practically very impossible to have a happy ending in life as long as death exists.

There is no life after life. Whoever says there is, ignore him! The untruth must be ignored! Stick to the life and the science!

What about life, Ninotchka? Do Russians never think about life, of the moment in which we are living? It's the only moment we ever really have.

I think there's a God and I know it's not me. I don't have a set of tenets, but I live an ethical life.

If you have known how to compose your life, you have done a great deal more than the person who knows how to compose a book. You have done more than the one who has taken cities and empires.

There is nothing of evil in life for him who rightly comprehends that death is no evil; to know how to die delivers us from all subjection and constraint.

There is no knowledge so hard to acquire as the knowledge of how to live this life well and naturally.

My art and profession is to live.

We must learn to suffer what we cannot evade; our life, like the harmony of the world, is composed of contrary things, and one part is no less necessary than the other.

Now, of all the benefits that virtue confers upon us, the contempt of death is one of the greatest.

The ceaseless labour of your life is to build the house of death.

I see several animals that live so entire and perfect a life, some without sight, others without hearing: who knows whether to us also one, two, or three, or many other senses, may not be wanting?

Life should be taken ironically; otherwise, it becomes a tragedy.

You see everything is about belief, whatever we believe rules our existence, rules our life.

Life is very, very simple and easy to understand, but we complicate it with the beliefs and ideas that we create.

I believe the biggest themes of life are put into the best focus when held up against the very sharp light of mortality.

Human life doesn't seem to have much significance, and I don't know why.