Quotes About Meaning

When he who hears does not know what he who speaks means, and when he who speaks does not know what he himself means, that is philosophy.

Philosophy - hopeless. Yet it gives me hope.

Genuine philosophical problems are always rooted outside philosophy and they die if these roots decay.

Philosophy, to be relevant, must offer us a wisdom to live by.

There is no God. But it does not matter. Man is enough.

Ironic philosophies produce passionate works.

Once someone asked me, "What do you want to be your epitaph?" So I said, "Paulo Coelho died when he was alive.

How small a thought it takes to fill a life.

But then of course a philosophy is not the same thing as a style.

Philosophy is really homesickness.

I speculate that this is the best of all possible worlds, for philosophy is the best of humanity, and this world is the best philosophically.

Philosophy seems to me on the whole a rather hopeless business.

First of all you must understand that practising martial arts means studying a certain oriental philosophy of life, otherwise it's merely a vacuous sport devoid of any significance.

Everything you have is to give. Thou art a phenomenon of philosophy and an unfortunate man.

Philosophy asks the simple question: What is it all about?

Men accept without questioning that this world is real and important and worthwhile. This is faith. Philosophy is the ongoing questioning of this faith.

Because of the failure of religion to offer satisfying answers to an increasing number of people, it's time for philosophy to address forcefully these questions that everybody is wondering about.

Life is nothing until it is lived; but it is yours to make sense of, and the of it is nothing other than the sense you choose.

To scorn philosophy is truly to philosophize.

Would there be this eternal seeking if the found existed?

I like to think that death gives life meaning. I like that philosophy.

Rightly viewed no meanest object is insignificant; all objects are as windows through which the philosophic eye looks into infinitude itself.

Empirical sciences prosecuted purely for their own sake, and without philosophic tendency are like a face without eyes.

The symbols of the self arise from the depths of the body.