Quotes about Philosophy
Let the stoics say what they please, we do not eat for the good of living, but because the meat is savory and the appetite is keen.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Death is nothing to us, since when we are, death has not come, and when death has come, we are not.
— Epicurus
The ancient Greek definition of happiness was the full use of your powers along lines of excellence.
— John F. Kennedy
That I should die next week, I would still be able to sit at my desk all week and study with perfect equanimity, for I know now that life and death make a meaningful whole.
— Etty Hillesum
If we have been pleased with life, we should not be displeased with death, since it comes from the hand of the same master.
— Michelangelo
Life swings like a pendulum backward and forward between pain and boredom.
— Arthur Schopenhauer
We can regard our life as a uselessly disturbing episode in the blissful repose of nothingness.
— Arthur Schopenhauer
Is there another Life? Shall I awake and find all this a dream? There must be we cannot be created for this sort of suffering.
— John Keats
To perceive is to suffer.
— Aristotle
Does the universe exist only for me? It's possible. If so, it's sure going well for me, I must admit.
— Bill Gates
How ridiculous and how strange to be surprised at anything which happens in life
— Marcus Aurelius
It is possible to evade a multitude of sorrows by the cultivation of an insignificant life.
— John Henry Jowett