Quotes About Philosophy

Algy, you always adopt a strictly immoral attitude towards life. You are not quite old enough to do that.

Coleridge cried; "O God, how glorious it is to live!" Renan asks, "O God, when will it be worth while to live?" In Nature we echo the poet; in the world we echo the thinker.

Jesus was a lover of life, a very affirmative person, but Christianity is life-negative.

There is no God other than life itself.

Life itself is ... a sleep within a sleep.

Yet these uneasy pleasures and fine pains are for curiosity, and not for life.

I just believe that life is more than rehearsing how to die...

Plato's concern is not just an intellectual issue, but it is knitted with emotional life as well.

There is nothing intrinsically more beautiful or poetical about the moon than about a dunghill; if anything, the contrary, for the latter is full of life and warmth and energy.

Knowing that a paradox is required for life as we know it to exist allows me to give up trying constantly to understand it and instead just feel it and enjoy it.

If all of this, all the life of a stream of water, can be nothing but a pile of atoms, how much more is possible?

This was the last thing I expected. You destroy my life and then feed me some inspiratonal philosophy.

You make a joke out of everything. Life's too painful not to.

Is it fair your life burns so short and bright? Death had asked. "No such thing as fair," Frank told himself. "If I'm going to burn, it might as well be bright.

Everybody's got a worldview. Everybody's betting their life on something. ... You just better know why you're betting what you're betting on.

I've been running from, and toward, death all my life, more aware of it than a person should be.

Odd thing about death ... it reaffirms life.

Yes, I believe in guardian angels, because otherwise I must believe that life is a string of death-defying miracles - and I don't believe in miracles.

After a lifetime of deep thought, I've decided that life is a distraction, but probably not from anything important.

... on every important issue life transcends logic and it is folly to depend on reason alone.

Cicero smiled at us. 'The art of life is to deal with problems as they arise, rather than destory one's spirit by worrying about them too far in advance. Especially tonight.

To believe in immortality is one thing, but it is first needful to believe in life.

But that is the object of long living, that man should cease to care about life.

It is better to emit a scream in the shape of a theory than to be entirely insensible to the jars and incongruities of life and take everything as it comes in a forlorn stupidity.