Quotes about Philosophy
What a difference! Under the esthetic sky, everything is buoyant, beautiful, transient! when ethics arrives on the scene, everything becomes harsh, angular and infinitely boring
- Soren Kierkegaard
Love life more than the meaning of it?
- Fyodor Dostoevsky
Life can be meaningful enough to justify its suffering
- Jordan Peterson
To be an atheist requires an indefinitely greater measure of faith than to recieve all the great truths which atheism would deny.
- Joseph Addison
Besides, now I was thinking there just might be a God after all—that would explain who was currently fucking with my whole notion of reality.
- Ernest Cline
Another of Halliday's jokes—according to one of his favorite novels, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, the number 42 was the "Ultimate Answer to Life, the Universe, and Everything.
- Ernest Cline
Gabriel Marcel wrote that life is not so much a problem to be solved as a mystery to be explored.
- Eugene Peterson
The good and the wise lead quiet lives.
- Euripides
Events will take their course, it is no good of being angry at them he is happiest who wisely turns them to the best account.
- Euripides
I find the whole idea of religion overwhelming and frightening and not for me.
- Cody Fern
I'm not Buddhist, but I am drawn to it because it seems the most beneficial of organised religions and the most compassionate.
- Toni Collette
The gospel is not a philosophy of repression, as so many regard it. It is a plan of freedom that gives discipline to appetite and direction to behavior.
- Gordon Hinckley