Top 100 Life Philosophical Quotes
#1. People who have cut their teeth on philosophical problems of rationality, knowledge, perception, free will and other minds are well placed to think better about problems of evidence, decision making, responsibility and ethics that life throws up.
Simon Blackburn
#2. Have you ever seen a demonstrable example of equality in your entire life? Can it be glimpsed in any dog show or classroom? In any ping pong game or chess match? Of course not. It is a philosophical abstraction, something nowhere to be found in nature.
Boyd Rice
#3. The fondness or indifference that the philosophers expressed for life was merely a preference inspired by their self-love, and will no more bear reasoning upon than the relish of the palate or the choice of colors.
Francois De La Rochefoucauld
#4. Be not afraid life with all its despair, pain and unhappiness is just a crucible wherein your brighter dreams are conceived, shaped and born
Rassool Jibraeel Snyman
#5. Things have a life of their own," the gypsy proclaimed with a harsh accent. "It's simply a matter of waking up their souls.
Gabriel Garcia Marquez
#6. You won't comprehend the vitality of literacy until you marry an illiterate.
Kshitij Shringi
#7. Truth will screw with you every which way, before it lets you to be anywhere near itself.
Fakeer Ishavardas
#8. I have never since entirely freed myself of the impression that this life is a segment of existence which is enacted in a three-dimensional boxlike universe especially set up for it.
C. G. Jung
#10. Odd how the impossible negation of death - the sudden absence of life where once there was promise - can stimulate an early philosophical bent.
Bruce Duffy
#11. A fool is someone who wants you to apologise for your intelligence
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Rassool Jibraeel Snyman
#12. Life has always been a matter of putting one's feet down carefully
Isobelle Carmody
#14. I suggest in my own discussion of this episode, Mann invites us to set the attempt to philosophize about his predicament in the context of Aschenbach's life. The literary presentation thus adds to the naked philosophical skeleton.
Philip Kitcher
#15. For the classics philosophical insight was the product of a life of leisure; for me a life of leisure is the product of philosophical insight.
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
#16. Iron deficiency can lead to a wardrobe full of crumpled clothes
Benny Bellamacina
#17. Sharpen your life always; even though it will come to an end like a pencil, we have to keep on writing
Munia Khan
#18. Driving a car provides a person with a rush of dopamine in the brain, which hormonal induced salience spurs modalities of creative and critical thinking regarding philosophical concepts such as truth, logical necessity, possibility, impossibility, chance, and contingency.
Kilroy J. Oldster
#19. Life is fair, truth is faith
NGR
#20. For the salvation of his soul the Muslim digs a well. It would be a fine thing if each of us were to leave behind a school, or a well, or something of the sort, so that life would not pass by and retreat into eternity without a trace.
Anton Chekhov
#21. The life of man in this world is like the life of a fly in a room filled with 100 boys, each armed with a fly-swatter.
H.L. Mencken
#23. Is it so hard to offer your help and sympathy to somebody in grief? It takes a little to make one step, but, in an inexplicable manner, it stretches into thousands of kilometers. All of us are full of empathy and consolation but always prefer to express it from a distance.
Igor Eliseev
#24. We are living a life full of first experiences, from a first kiss, to the first time giving blood, to conceptual and philosophical explanations of humanity's firsts.
Kat Lahr
#25. It always turns out this way: at first people idolize you, swear to be your faithful friend forever and then spit in your tea and in your soul, too.
Igor Eliseev
#26. While food makes us live, stories are what make our lives worth living.
Richard Kearney
#27. Whether we are men dreaming we are butterflies or butterflies dreaming we are men, the one truth is that all life is an illusion. We are all wandering shades.
Jenifer Mohammed
#28. At every moment I convinced myself that I was gathering material for the novel of my life - all experienced from the philosophical distance of the author. Even these humiliating occasions when I was robbed could be used as material. Life was a field trip.
Edmund White
#29. The deepest and darkest dungeons that we are ever flung into are the dungeons of the mind
Rassool Jibraeel Snyman
#31. Maybe the consequences of someone's unreason can be remedied only with a new unreason?
Igor Eliseev
#32. In this, the late afternoon of my life, I wonder: am I casting a longer shadow or is my shadow casting a shorter me?
Robert Breault
#33. True evil needs no reason to exist, it simply is and feeds upon itself.
E.A. Bucchianeri
#34. Cherish the fabulous, the fantastic, the beautiful, the graceful, the moments of abandon, laughter, quirkiness. Cherish the tiny incredible details, the gigantic & varied display, and the infinite depths - of life.
Jay Woodman
#35. What life is this? Living in a world of hatred and lies, breathing the same air the dead breathed once, knowing we will wake up one day and find ourselves gone from time and space, and yet we still breathe the air without trembling from the thought.
Nour Zikra
#36. It may be, too, that the task Heidegger sets for himself in Being and Time is in fact impossible. Heidegger's abandonment of the project one-third of the way through may itself be a formal indication of the impossibility of providing adequate philosophical terms for life as we live it.
S.J. McGrath
#37. What we like to think of ourselves and what we really are rarely have much in common ...
Stephen King
#38. The only thing standing between you and your dreams is ... reluctance.
Carroll Bryant
#39. Who knoweth if to die be but to live, and that called life by mortals be but death?
Euripides
#40. Some topics seem to be nothing but philosophical circles designed to lure the unsuspecting ant to its death.
D.E. Navarro
#41. Whenever a high-profile leader dies, people immediately attempt to summarize that person's life in a sentence. Often, critics and commentators get caught up looking at the leader's style, or which political or philosophical camp they represented.
John C. Maxwell
#42. Whole life is a search for beauty. But, when the beauty is found inside, the search ends and a beautiful journey begins.
Harshit Walia
#44. I clearly saw us from outside, like in a picture: we are not people, we are a road sign warning: "Stop and thank luck because such fate didn't befall you as befell us, and only then keep going your way".
Igor Eliseev
#45. If life has given us no more than a prison cell, let's at least decorate it as best we can-with the shadows of our dreams, their colourful patterns engraving our oblivion on the static surface of the walls.
Fernando Pessoa
#46. My own attitude to the innumerable injustices of life has always been a philosophical one, especially when they have tended to operate in my favour.
Auberon Waugh
#47. If I were to ever have enough material or the philosophical mind to write a book about what a good life ought to be, my thesis would be simply this: A good life is one that has managed to turn anxiety into hope, and fear into success. And that is what I call total virtue.
Mohammed Naseehu Ali
#48. Whatever life throws at me, I'll take with a smile upon my face and Nirvana's 'Bleach' on the stereo.
Mark R. Faulkner
#49. A lifetime had to be crafted, just like anything else, she thought, it had to be moulded and beaten and burnished in order to get the most out of it.
Rohinton Mistry
#50. Expressing doubt is how we begin a journey to discover essential truths.
Kilroy J. Oldster
#51. Science, it is said, no doubt has ameliorated the material conditions of human life, but is powerless to solve those moral and philosophical questions that interest cultured people so deeply.
Elie Metchnikoff
#52. If the colour of life turns grey turn the palette the other way
Benny Bellamacina
#53. The whole thrust of yogic philosophical and scientific inquiry has therefore been to examine the nature of being, with a view to learning to respond to the stresses of life without so many tremors and troubles.
B.K.S. Iyengar
#54. Coffee makes us severe, and grave and philosophical.
Jonathan Swift
#55. It is worthy of note that killing oneself and killing someone is not the same. For the former, one should lose one's faith, for the latter, one should never have any.
Igor Eliseev
#56. If an infant had the capacity to think hard about this world, it would have wanted to go back to its mother's womb again
Munia Khan
#57. When Philosophy with its abstractions paints grey in grey, the freshness and life of youth has gone, the reconciliation is not a reconciliation in the actual, but in the ideal world.
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
#58. The difference between an achiever and a loser is,
An achiever never gives up, never settles and lastly never forgets.
Akash Lakhotia
#59. Every person you meet in your life is your destiny. We alter the course of every life we touch, whether we realize it or not.
Dannika Dark
#60. The individual soul touches upon the world soul like a well reaches for the water table. That which sustains the universe beyond thought and language, and that which is at the core of us and struggles for expression, is the same thing. The finite within the infinite, the infinite within the finite.
Yann Martel
#61. At times it is so enjoyable to mire your neighbor into the filth you already got stuck in long ago!
Igor Eliseev
#62. Love your body, love your sexuality, and realize that you are a bad human being only if you are unkind and cruel and do harm unto others and not because of your sex life.
Roxana Shirazi
#65. Change for someone today and tomorrow you will hear them say, "You are not the same.
Akash Lakhotia
#67. The happy and the suffering probably understand life equally well, but the sufferers may see a little more clearly how little it is that they understand.
James Richardson
#68. Try and avoid people who use the word "cant" regularly associate rather with those who say "can" and do
Rassool Jibraeel Snyman
#69. Your life is a series of moments in "now." The better you make your "now" the better your life.
Karen Salmansohn
#70. Those who are absent, by its means become present: correspondence is the consolation of life. - VOLTAIRE, Philosophical Dictionary
Colin Dexter
#71. Life is like a box of cookies: it's good while it lasts, but before you know it, it's gone.
R.M. ArceJaeger
#72. This isn't lust. Lust wants, does the obvious, and pads back into the forest. Love is greedier. Love wants round-the-clock care; protection; rings, vows, joint accounts; scented candles on birthdays; life insurance. Babies. Love's a dictator.
David Mitchell
#75. I am not afraid to die because I know heaven is a place of artists, musicians and poets
Rassool Jibraeel Snyman
#76. The problem in today's society is that the truth is in short supply and people love soft lies more than hard truths
Rassool Jibraeel Snyman
#78. There's something in life that's a curtain, and I keep trying to raise it.
Maxine Hong Kingston
#79. Work on your character, let life fall into place.
Sonia Rumzi
#80. Perhaps one has to have placed life in the center of one's worldview and valued it as much as I have in order to know that one may not keep it, but must yield it up.
Georg Simmel
#82. You have always understood and accepted my most genuine, most intimate impulses and responded to them with surprising accuracy. I wish all people turned into such mirrors for each other.
Igor Eliseev
#84. Probably, sooner or later every person founds oneself to be needless.
Igor Eliseev
#85. In school one learns to ask stupid questions of life.
Marty Rubin
#86. The best thing about the sciences is their philosophical ingredient, like life for an organic body. If one dephilosophizes the sciences, what remains left? Earth , air , and [[water.
Novalis
#87. Intelligent design is a modest position theologically and philosophically. It attributes the complexity and diversity of life to intelligence, but does not identify that intelligence with the God of any religious faith or philosophical system.
William A. Dembski
#89. Some of us teach ourselves and our children to love the superficial outer; our looks, hair, skin, clothes rather than the greater beauty that resides within whereas it is that inner beauty that really defines you and who you truly are
Rassool Jibraeel Snyman
#90. Many feel that writers are a dime a dozen, so the goal is to break through and make it to the value of a penny.
Wil Zeus
#91. The philosopher's conception of things will, above all, be truer than other men's, and his philosophy will subordinate all the circumstances of life. To live like a philosopher is to live, not foolishly, like other men, but wisely and according to universal laws.
Henry David Thoreau
#92. Living in the fast lane is great as long as you remember where the slip roads are
Benny Bellamacina
#93. Life is one big gym where we need to constantly workout to stay fit for this world. And indeed love here is the treadmill.
Munia Khan
#94. If you're going to buy a castle, make sure you get on the property extension ladder.
Benny Bellamacina
#95. Many people who have progressively lowered their personal standards in an attempt to win social acceptance and life's comforts bitterly resent those of philosophical bent who refuse to compromise their spiritual ideals and who seek to better themselves.
Epictetus
#96. We might feel we have achieved a lot. just take a pause and look back. We will see only darkness ...
Mahesh Shekhar
#97. My objection to Liberalism is this that it is the introduction into the practical business of life of the highest kind namely, politics of philosophical ideas instead of political principles.
Benjamin Disraeli
#98. When you reach the middle of your career ladder, turn it the other way around and slide down to the top
Benny Bellamacina
#99. Most important thing in life is family,
Without them you are nothing.
Whatever you do will be worth nothing,
If there is no one to appreciate it.
Akash Lakhotia
#100. Nothing is Lie until you get to know the truth, as nothing is false in Dream until you get to know that i'm Dreamer.
The Ek
