Quotes About Philosophy

I don't believe the fertilised egg can be equated with the sort of human life that you and I represent, or our children represent.

My dear fellow, my whole life is moved by the principle that the one thing which is more important than peace is music. It is because I believe that I am poor.

I prefer simple things - monotone melodies repeating the same things all the time. Because I think life is like that.

She believed, of course ... because without something to believe in, life would be intolerable.

Anything that has to deal with our mortality is always going to be interesting to us. Life and death is always going to be something that draws our attention.

The Killing Fields, my character's teachings frame the movie and the argument of his lectures is the challenge of dealing with the painfulness of life in the absence of faith.

To live the practical aspect of life as part of our schooling is formidable, but to adopt living it as our ultimate goal is absurd.

A book should teach us to enjoy life, or to endure it.

Philosophers there are who try to make themselves believe that this life is happy; but they believe it only while they are saying it, and never yet produced conviction in a single mind.

Reflect that life, like every other blessing, Derives its value from its use alone.

We all know by theory that there is no permanent happiness in this life: But the weight of the precept is not felt in the same manner as when it is confirmed to us by a heavy calamity.

I am one to believe that life starts at the moment of conception.

My novels are high concept. I guess big ideas interest me more than, say, the minutiae of domestic life.

It takes the whole of life to learn how to live, and - even more surprising - it takes the whole of life to learn how to die.

Not a soul takes thought how well he may live- only how long: yet a good life might be everybody's, a long one can be nobody's.

Before old age I took care to live well; in old age I take care to die well; but to die well is to die willingly.

Precepts or maxims are of great weight; and a few useful ones at hand do more toward a happy life than whole volumes that we know not where to find.

The point is, not how long you live, but how nobly you live.

He is greedy of life who is not willing to die when the world is perishing around him.

We learn not for life but for the debating-room.

Life without literary studies is death.

Leisure without literature is death, or rather the burial of a living man -Otium sine litteris mors est et hominis vivi sepultura

It should be our care not so much to live a long life as a satisfactory one.

The wise man lives as long as he should, not just as long as he likes.