Quotes About Philosophy

Whereas a prolonged life is not necessarily better, a prolonged death is necessarily worse.

To live is not a blessing, but to live well.

I was looking for what the meaning of life was.

How much longer will I live? (Urian) You're immortal, barring death. (Acheron) That doesn't make sense. (Urian) Most of life doesn't. (Acheron)

The past isn't real because it's history, and the future isn't because it hasn't happened yet. I like it, it hints at virtual reality, which I think is how we sort of feel about life sometimes.

Here's one more from my limited experience with all 3 fields: A writer creates life; a poet creates magic from life; a philosopher tries to understand life.

Even I would find a book about my life pretty dull.

Anyway I know only too well that all life is nothing but a brief reprieve from death.

Tomorrow or the next life - which comes first, we never know.

It is perfectly true, as philosophers say, that life must be understood backwards. But they forget the other proposition, that it must be lived forwards.

The causes of life's history [cannot] resolve the riddle of life's meaning.

George Oppen wasn't a larger than life personality, but I'm not either. And he lived a long time, so he was happy. Going down in flames is fine, too.

You can't beat life when you consider the alternatives.

College totally changed my life. It changed what I believe and what I think about everything. I majored in philosophy.

Ideas disturb the levelness of life

the appetite for thinking must be regulated, as all sensible people know, for it may stifle one's life.

Only a creature that can think symbolically about life can conceive of its own death. Our knowledge of death is part of our knowledge of life.

These tremendous contradictions in our intellect, in our knowledge, yea, in all the facts of our life face us on all sides.

Those who die, merely suffering the woes of life like cats and dogs, are they men?

The forms have value only so far as they are expressions of the life within. If they have ceased to express life, crush them out without mercy.

If genetic memory or racial memory persists, is it possible that individual memory also exists from previous lives?

Even the most malignant gods would not continue to inflict life upon humanity, time without end.

All the higher life forms scythed away, just like that. [ . . . ] Nothing but dust and fundamentalists.

The Japanese have a word - aware - which, in my understanding is, again, that full range - both the joy and the sorrow of our life. One does not exist without the other. And I really feel that.