Quotes About Philosophy

Even if there is intelligent life somewhere, which perhaps there is, I'm agnostic about it, I don't know.

I did not want to reject religion as nonsense because life seemed to have no ultimate purpose without it, and most of the good people I knew were Christians.

Like all great fantasists, he has taught me about life, life in eternity rather than chronology, life in that time in which we are real.

Buddha never rejected Hinduism, but he broadened its base. He gave it a new life and a new interpretation.

Let the Gita be to you a mine of diamonds, as it has been to me; let it be your constant guide and friend on life's way.

The wise are unaffected either by death or life. These are but faces of the same coin.

Being dissatisfied and properly dissatisfied with the husk of Hinduism, you are in danger of losing even the kernel, life itself.

Life becomes livable only to the extent that death is treated as a friend, never as an enemy.

Whether people know the evolution of the conversation or not, I don't know, but thematically, as a comedian, I stay in the same ballpark - around my issues and my philosophy of life.

The whole universe is change and life itself is but what you deem it

The whole universe is change and life itself is but what you deem it - either gratefully better than or bitterly worse than something else that you alone choose.

Turn thy thoughts now to the consideration of thy life, thy life as a child, as a youth, thy manhood, thy old age, for in these also every change was a death. Is this anything to fear?

I depart from life as from an inn, and not as from my home. [Lat., Ex vita discedo, tanquam ex hospitio, non tanquam ex domo.]

I know not any season of life that is past more agreeably than virtuous old age.

Nor do I regret that I have lived, since I have so lived that I think I was not born in vain, and I quit life as if it were an inn, not a home.

For drinking Life there are two cups: The No Cup is bitter, the Yes Cup is yummy -- Now, which one would you rather have in your tummy?

I don't see decadence really as what you do, because I don't do much at all that is decadent in my life. But I still am decadent. It's a state of mind, I think.

The mind can ask all the questions on the meaning of life. But it cannot answer one of them, for the answers are beyond the mind.

I thought of myself as kind of an anarchist all my whole adult life, from the days when I was 15 or 16.

Life does not consist mainly - or even largely - of facts and happenings.

One can always lament, you know — but to laugh in the face of life, that's very hard. And for me the great tragedian should also be a great comedian.

He who thinks that the lives of Priam and of Nestor were long is much deceived and mistaken. Life consists not in living, but in enjoying health.

Life is a mystery as deep as ever death can be.

It really takes a hero to live any kind of spiritual life without religious belief.