Top 100 Philosophical Life Quotes
#1. What can a philosopher show for himself? His life. If someone writes a book, but it is not accompanied by a philosophical life, it is not worth our time. Wisdom is measured in details: it is found in what one says and doesn't say, what one does and doesn't do, what one thinks and doesn't think.
Michel Onfray
#2. I am not afraid to die because I know heaven is a place of artists, musicians and poets
Rassool Jibraeel Snyman
#3. 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
#5. Change for someone today and tomorrow you will hear them say, "You are not the same.
Akash Lakhotia
#6. At times it is so enjoyable to mire your neighbor into the filth you already got stuck in long ago!
Igor Eliseev
#7. The difference between an achiever and a loser is,
An achiever never gives up, never settles and lastly never forgets.
Akash Lakhotia
#8. 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
#9. 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
#10. 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
#11. If the colour of life turns grey turn the palette the other way
Benny Bellamacina
#13. 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
#14. We might feel we have achieved a lot. just take a pause and look back. We will see only darkness ...
Mahesh Shekhar
#15. 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
#16. Living in the fast lane is great as long as you remember where the slip roads are
Benny Bellamacina
#18. 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
#21. 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
#22. Work on your character, let life fall into place.
Sonia Rumzi
#23. Who knoweth if to die be but to live, and that called life by mortals be but death?
Euripides
#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
#26. Life is fair, truth is faith
NGR
#27. A fool is someone who wants you to apologise for your intelligence
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Rassool Jibraeel Snyman
#29. You won't comprehend the vitality of literacy until you marry an illiterate.
Kshitij Shringi
#30. 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
#31. Expressing doubt is how we begin a journey to discover essential truths.
Kilroy J. Oldster
#32. 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
#33. Whatever life throws at me, I'll take with a smile upon my face and Nirvana's 'Bleach' on the stereo.
Mark R. Faulkner
#34. 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
#35. The only thing standing between you and your dreams is ... reluctance.
Carroll Bryant
#36. What we like to think of ourselves and what we really are rarely have much in common ...
Stephen King
#37. 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
#38. 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
#39. Maybe the consequences of someone's unreason can be remedied only with a new unreason?
Igor Eliseev
#40. The deepest and darkest dungeons that we are ever flung into are the dungeons of the mind
Rassool Jibraeel Snyman
#41. 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
#42. Oppressors specialise in rasing wolves from amonst the sheep then together with the wolves devour the sheep
Rassool Jibraeel Snyman
#43. Why does it seem easier for us to accept reality when it is within the confinement of the animal kingdom yet so hard for us to face it in our?
Aysha Taryam
#44. The older we get, the more we become ourselves.
Alan Andrews
#46. Some people, no matter how easy the path they are given on the walk of life, will find a way to mess it all up. Ray Levine was one of those people.
Harlan Coben
#47. The incarnation is not a soul into a body, it is an illusory world known as a life into consciousness.
One Iam
#48. The partition separating life from death is so tenuous. The unbelievable fragility of our organism suggests a vision on a screen: a kind of mist condenses itself into a human shape, lasts a moment and scatters.
Czeslaw Milosz
#49. I like having options, alternate lives unlived but always possible.
Abigail Padgett
#50. Lifes like a painters palette, just when you've got everything worked out the colours change
Benny Bellamacina
#51. By tracing the careers of the four members of the Philosophical Breakfast Club, Laura Snyder has found a wonderful way not just to tell the great stories of 19th-century science, but to bring them vividly to life.
Tom Standage
#52. A single lie is the father of all lies
Sheeja Jose
#53. Nothing is as it seems, but something is everything it is made out to be.
Carroll Bryant
#54. The philosophic mind inclines always to an elaborate life
the life of Goethe or of Leonardo da Vinci; but the life of the poet isintense
the life of Blake or of Dante
taking into its centre the life that surrounds it and flinging it abroad again amid planetary music.
James Joyce
#57. Personally, I've been hearing all my life about the Serious Philosophical Issues posed by life extension, and my attitude has always been that I'm willing to grapple with those issues for as many centuries as it takes.
Patrick Hayden
#58. Pythagoras, Locke, Socrates - but pages might be filled up, as vainly as before, with the sad usage of all sorts of sages, who in his life-time, each was deemed a bore! The loftiest minds outrun their tardy ages.
Lord Byron
#59. There can be no law of nature, no science,
No aberrant infliction of human will
That unchained the soul cannot conquer,
Simply sweep away, should it chose to.
Scott Hastie
#60. Some of life's moments mark a break in consciousness; others give rise to streams of scintillating, philosophical ideas or astonishing works of art; still others, to important meeting or profound personal upheavals.
Elie Wiesel
#61. I mean really, how could an artistic individual stay grounded in the nitty-gritty of how many minutes per pound meat has to stay in the oven when trying to fathom the creative philosophy behind the greatest artistic minds of the world?
E.A. Bucchianeri
#64. Poetry should make you feel good, life's already full of possibilities that make you feel bad. But, there's always the needed philosophical poem that puts you back into a reality that might not be so pleasant.
K.R. Royal
#65. If only yesterday could be my tomorrow then today wouldn't even matter.
Carroll Bryant
#66. A sin is nothing more than regret. Not for doing it once, but doing it again when you know you're going to regret it.
Carroll Bryant
#67. There's 7 billion 46 million people on the planet and most of us have the audacity to think we matter.
George Watsky
#68. Religion is more than life. Remember that his own religion is the truest to every man even if it stands low in the scales of philosophical comparison.
Mahatma Gandhi
#71. The awful thing is that if i can forget they're people, it will be no different at all
Suzanne Collins
#72. Often times, "shame" is the word that best describes reality.
Carroll Bryant
#73. Of all the things I expected to find in my lunch, a live snake wasn't one of them.
Peter James West
#74. We employ our personality, what we know, think, and believe, in order to interpret the world, making self-understanding a critical act because it establishes the baseline for our philosophical and intellectual approach towards life.
Kilroy J. Oldster
#75. You always look on the dark side of life. I believe in capturing the moment ... Joy is so fleeting. You never know when it might be snatched away.
Susan Wiggs
#76. Tell me what gives a man or woman their greatest pleasure and I'll tell you their philosophy of life.
Dale Carnegie
#77. Plutarch's peers were writing "rhetorics," which were these dry philosophical treatises that made really broad gestures about life and death and fate. Plutarch stepped out of the stream to create an essayistic form that relied on a digressive structure and down to earth anecdotes.
John D'Agata
#78. Destiny is a lie. Destiny is justification for atrocity. It is the means by which murderers armour themselves against reprimand. It is a word intended to stand in place of ethics, denying all moral context.
Steven Erikson
#79. A lot of people see doubt as legitimate philosophical posture. They think of themselves in the middle, whereas of course really, they're nowhere.
John Le Carre
#80. The truth about life is complicated, indefensible and embarrassing.
Alex Weinle
#82. It's not always wise to assume that just because the surface of the world appears undisturbed, life is where you left it.
Jan Ellison
#84. It only takes one person, one voice from somewhere beyond, to save a life.
Kirsten Arcadio
#85. It is all too easy for a society to measure itself against some abstract philosophical principle or political slogan. But in the end, there must remain the question: What kind of life is one society providing to the people that live in it?
Hubert H. Humphrey
#86. Not knowing is not a problem, not wondering is.
Chase Weir
#87. That mortal is a fool who, prospering, thinks his life has any strong foundation; since our fortune's course of action is the reeling way a madman takes, and no one person is ever happy all the time.
Euripides
#88. We're beings towards death, we're featherless two-legged linguistically conscious creatures born between urine and feces whose bodies will one day be the culinary delight of terrestrial worms. That's us.
Cornel West
#89. People! Please. Listen. Our life, our bodies are the most authentic clinical record ever! Why do you have to ask for any other one, alien, fake, distorted by illegible handwriting belonging to someone who has never been us and has never tried to understand us? Do you think that is right?
Igor Eliseev
#90. Having a rather pessimistic outlook on life makes for the best philosophical discussions; distress is the only real reason to question something; comfort often leads to the inability to change.
Moryah DeMott
#91. Precisely at the point when you begin to develop a conscience you must find yourself at war with your society.
James Baldwin
#92. Solitude led to retrospective thinking, and if the past is what you are trying to get away from, then constant distractions in the present are needed.
R.D. Ronald
#93. I was pondering the reason why we are all here in this life, and what did it all mean. It seemed to me that we had all been invited to one big party, but no-one's been told what we're all celebrating.
Beatrice James
#94. I'm not sure that I 'am' a philosopher - but I do engage with questions that are generally recognized as philosophical questions, such as the character of human existence and what makes for a good human life.
George Pattison
#95. We always humble ourselves before bastards - it has already become a tradition.
Igor Eliseev
#96. I blame God for all the good things that happened in my life to spite him I will be good to others
Rassool Jibraeel Snyman
#97. It is hard to take the last step, but the hardest thing is to make a choice between the unwillingness to live and the inability to die.
Igor Eliseev
#98. Take heart. You're not alone. Every broken heart breathes again. That's life. It goes on. In loss, and in gain.
Fakeer Ishavardas
#99. The deepest wounds aren't the ones we get from other people hurting us. They are the wounds we give ourselves when we hurt other people.
Isobelle Carmody
