Quotes about Philosophy

Regardless of what the real truth is concerning religion and morality, our lives are greatly affected by it today and perhaps even in eternity.

I would rather be wrong, by God, with Plato than be correct with those men.

Nothing is too absurd for some philosopher to have said it.

The meaning of life is to give life meaning.

Suffering ceases to be suffering at the moment it finds a meaning.

Is it not conceivable that there is still another dimension, a world beyond man's world; a world in which the question of an ultimate meaning of human suffering would find an answer?

A thought transfixed me: for the first time in my life I saw the truth as it is set into song by so many poets, proclaimed as the final wisdom by so many thinkers. The truth—that love is the ultimate and the highest goal to which man can aspire.

Man's search for meaning is the primary motivation in his life and not a secondary rationalization of instinctual drives.

Is it not conceivable that there is still another dimension, a world beyond man's world; a world in which the question of an ultimate meaning of human suffering would find an answer?

The destiny a person suffers therefore has a twofold meaning: to be shaped where possible, and to be endured where necessary.

Logos is deeper than logic.

Life is not primarily a quest for pleasure, as Freud believed, or a quest for power, as Alfred Adler taught, but a quest for meaning. The greatest task for any person is to find meaning in his or her life.