Quotes about Philosophy
It begins easily for the sake of poor imbeciles like me; but it goes on, it goes on, more and more fully and subtly and abstrusely and embracingly.
- Aldous Huxley
A philosophy of work is essential if we would be whole men, holy men, healthy men, joyous men. A certain amount of goods is necessary for a man to lead a good life, and we have to make that kind of society where it is easier for men to be good.
- Dorothy Day
Self-knowledge is the basis of jeet kune do because it is effective not only for the individual's martial art but also for his life as a human being.
- Bruce Lee
Where life is possible at all, a right life is possible; life in a palace is possible; therefore even in a palace a right life is possible.
- Marcus Aurelius
Life is sacred, that is to say, it is the supreme value, to which all other values are subordinate.
- Albert Einstein
It's better to bet on this life than on the next.
- Albert Camus
It is only in the microscope that our life looks so big.
- Arthur Schopenhauer
We can't turn life into a pleasure. But we can choose such pleasures as are worthy of us and our immortal souls.
- GK Chesterton
Birth and death are not two different states, but they are different aspects of the same state.
- Mahatma Gandhi
Religion enables us to ignore nothingness and get on with the jobs of life.
- John Updike
I want to die young at a ripe old age.
- Ashley Montagu
To be, or not to be; that is the bare bodkin That makes calamity of so long life.
- Mark Twain