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Quotes About Philosophy

It is necessary not to be Christian to appreciate the beauty and significance of the life of Christ.
~ Henry David Thoreau
We make needless ado about capital punishment,--taking lives, when there is no life to take.
~ Henry David Thoreau
There are various tough problems yet to solve, and we must shift to live, betwixt spirit and matter, such a human life as we can.
~ Henry David Thoreau
Having reached the term of his natural life"; Mwould it not be truer to say, Having reached the term of his unnatural life?
~ Henry David Thoreau
The opportunities of living are diminished in proportion as what are called the "means" are increased.
~ Henry David Thoreau
We are the subjects of an experiment which is not a little interesting to me.
~ Henry David Thoreau
This world... ever was, and is, and shall be, ever-living Fire, in measures being kindled and in measures going out.
~ Heraclitus
I say no wealth is worth my life.
~ Homer
Life is a farce, and should not end with a mourning scene.
~ Horace Walpole
The atheist worldview of life is a materialistic culture that frees humanity from superstition.
~ Howard Thompson
We are all the foolishness and all the crimes we did. We're also all the kindnesses we did. I hate to think of life as if we understood time. We don't understand time.
~ Hugh Leonard
That's life and you can't change anything, you know.
~ Irina Slutskaya
The Magistrate suffered from the disability of a free-thinking turn of mind and from a life that was barren and dreary to match.
~ J. G. Farrell
It was a shame, but as Ron said, you couldn't have everything in life.
~ J. K. Rowling
My goal in life is to make decisions that minimize regrets. I don't regret anything I've done.
~ Jake Pavelka
I'm beginning to think that maybe everything that happens makes sense. Like, if it didn't make sense, how could it happen?
~ James A. Baldwin
There is nothing more gray, stultifying, or dreary than life lived inside the confines of a theory.
~ Jaron Lanier
Death and the end of one's life are two very different things indeed.
~ Jasper Fforde
Yes, if the life and death of Socrates are those of a wise man, the life and death of Jesus are those of a god.
~ Jean-Jacques Rousseau
It's just as idiotic to say there is no life after death as it is to say there is one.
~ Jeanne Moreau
My motto is that I enjoy life. I think there's a kind of simplicity to that way of thinking.
~ Jenna Elfman
I spent most of my adult life essentially agnostic or an atheist.
~ Jim Gaffigan
My philosophy in life, where I was trying to get, could have been a little bit different.
~ Joe Namath
The whole art of living consists in giving up existence in order to exist.
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe