Quotes About Philosophy

For, let me tell you that the more the pleasures of the body fade away, the greater to me are the pleasure and charm of conversation.

What was the future? The future was a solid wall, not promising, not threatening - all bunk. No guarantees of anything, not even the guarantee that life isn't one big joke.

Leave off asking what tomorrow will bring, andwhatever days fortune will give, count themas profit.

We need but little learning to live happily.

The hour of departure has arrived, and we go our separate ways, I to die, and you to live. Which of these two is better only God knows.

The chances of finding out what's really going on in the universe are so remote, the only thing to do is hang the sense of it and keep yourself occupied.

He who has a why to live for can bear almost any how.

The world is a tragedy to those who feel, but a comedy to those who think.

People don't like to think, if one thinks, one must reach conclusions. Conclusions are not always pleasant.

You rely too much on brain. The brain is the most overrated organ.

The prosaic fact of the universe's existence alone defeats both the pragmatist and the romantic.

That one must either explain life to oneself so that it does not seem to be an evil mockery by some sort of devil, or one must shoot oneself.

I do not believe in an afterlife although I am bringing a change of underwear.

Most people get a fair amount of fun out of their lives but on balance life is suffering and only the very sound or the very foolish imagine otherwise.

The good life as I conceive it is a happy life. I do not mean that if you are good you will be happy - I mean that if you are happy you will be good.

All rationalism tends to minimalise the value and the importance of life and to decrease the sum total of human happiness.

I don't believe in the after life, although I am bringing a change of underwear.

Even though you can't expect to defeat the absurdity of the world, you must make the attempt. That's morality, that's religion, that's art, that's life.

I'm very happy with my life. I am what I am. I don't worry about anything that I can't control. That's a really good lesson in life.

I think it's really important for your mental health to think about the big questions, to discuss them and open your mind, in order to prepare you for both life and death.

With myself, how to pass time becomes sometimes the question - unavoidably, though it strikes me as a thing unspeakably sad in a life so short as ours.

The universe is change our life is what our thoughts make it.

Dead people are just great. Meet me when you are.

If you were given the chance to be reborn after your death, buy you could only come back as a squirrel, would you complain?