Quotes about Philosophy
Nothing is more futile than looking for meaning in things that have none.
- Marty Rubin
The problem is not that we can't answer the great questions, but that we ask them in the first place.
- Marty Rubin
It's fun to invent systems and meanings and then poke holes in them.
- Marty Rubin
In the Book of Poetry there are three hundred poems, but the meaning of all of them may be put in a single sentence: Have no debasing thoughts.
- Confucius
We ought not to schismatize on either men or measures. Principles alone can justify that.
- Thomas Jefferson
The consistent thinker ... is either a walking mummy or else if he has not succeeded in stifling all his vitality a fanatical monomaniac.
- Aldous Huxley
A man's life is what his thoughts make it.
- Marcus Aurelius
If you are pained by external things, it is not they that disturb you, but your own judgement of them. And it is in your power to wipe out that judgement now.
- Marcus Aurelius
Given the unfairness that strikes so many people in life, I would rather believe in a God of limited power and unlimited love and justice, rather than the other way around.
- Harold S. Kushner
I am by nature an optimist and by intellectual conviction a pessimist.
- William Golding
I believe in the theoretical benevolence, and the practical malignity of man.
- William Hazlitt
The best argument I know for an immortal life is the existence of a man who deserves one.
- William James