Quotes about Philosophy
A free life cannot acquire many possessions, because this is not easy to do without servility to mobs or monarchs.
- Epicurus
Is there any one maxim which ought to be acted upon throughout one's whole life? Surely the maxim of loving kindness is such: Do not unto others what you would not they should do unto you.
- Confucius
I opened myself to the gentle indifference of the world.
- Albert Camus
I think people who believe that life emerged naturalistically need to have a great deal more faith than people who reasonably infer that there's an Intelligent Designer.
- Lee Strobel
When you have solved all the mysteries of life you long for death, for it is but another mystery of life.
- Khalil Gibran
For in me there have always been two fools, among others, one asking nothing better than to stay where he is and the other imagining that life might be slightly less horrible a little further on.
- Samuel Beckett
Do you always believe in the life to come? Mine was always that.
- Samuel Beckett
The meaning of life is that it is to be lived, and it is not to be traded and conceptualized and squeezed into a patter of systems.
- Bruce Lee
Life is a battle between faith and reason in which each feeds upon the other, drawing sustenance from it and destroying it.
- Reinhold Niebuhr
We needed to stop asking about the meaning of life.
- Viktor E. Frankl
You do not understand even life. How can you understand death?
- Confucius
If you do not believe in a personal God, the question: 'What is the purpose of life?' is unaskable and unanswerable.
- JRR Tolkien