Top 76 Short Philosophy Quotes
#1. The whole history of modern poetry is a continuous commentary on the short text of philosophy: every art should become science, and every science should become art; poetry and philosophy should be united.
Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
#2. Nero would be long since forgotten without his outbursts of bloody clowning. ~ Emil Cioran, A Short History of Decay
Emil Cioran
#3. Life is so short, no time to spare, so choose carefully, love intensely and live blissfully.
Debasish Mridha
#4. Kindness can be short, sweet, transient, and random, but its effects echo forever.
Debasish Mridha
#5. Everybody is waiting for something whether it is in the short or long term.
Steven Redhead
#6. If I am happy in spite of my deprivations, if my happiness is so deep that it is a faith, so thoughtful that it becomes a philosophy of life. If, in short, I am an optimist, my testimony to the creed of optimism is worth hearing.
Helen Keller
#7. This is no tall story. Nor is it a short story. Indeed, a story cannot be measured, for their realities stretch far beyond a page or one person's life.
Leah Broadby
#8. Consider the whole universe whereof thou art but a very little part, and the whole age of the world together, whereof but a short and very momentary portion is allotted unto thee, and all the fates and destinies together, of which how much is it that comes to thy part and share.
Marcus Aurelius
#9. Don't complain because life is too short; appreciate because you are going through the most amazing journey called life.
Debasish Mridha
#10. Always ask the questions you want to, life is too short to know if you'll get a second chance to ask , and afterlife is probably too long to wonder what the answer may be.
Kaitlin Hollon
#11. Hello again! As you see, this short course in philosophy will come in handy-sized portions.
Jostein Gaarder
#12. I am the keeper of the beast, though all men harbor a beast in the depths of their heart
callous, calamitous creatures, driven by deviant demands and derisive diligence.
From the short story What Rough Beast
Michael Hibbard
#13. Our life is just as long or short as our memory, as vibrant as our feeling, and as profound as our thinking.
Neel Burton
#14. You know," Daddy said, "it's some that can live their whole life out without asking about it and it's others has to know why it is, and this boy is one of the latters. He's going to be into everything!
Flannery O'Connor
#16. Life is a strong drink served up in an extremely short, and fragile shot glass. We shouldn't waste a single drop.
Samantha Sotto
#17. We are here for a short time, so live a life of love and kindness, which tends to live long.
Debasish Mridha
#18. People who rarely read long books, or even short stories, still appreciate the greatest examples of the shortest literary genres. I have long been fascinated by these short genres. They seem to lie just where my heart is, somewhere between literature and philosophy.
Gary Saul Morson
#20. Life is too short to hate anything. I am too busy to love and enjoy everything.
Debasish Mridha
#21. My philosophy is this: Life is too short to work another minute at a job you don't love.
J.R. Rain
#22. Knowledge is the comprehensive embodiment of imagination that surfaces in observation and finally ripens through the reinforcement of experience thereby inculcating knowledge. This in fact is the short story of life.
Q.M. Sidd
#23. Life is wonderful so love deeply.
Life is short so live it intensely.
Debasish Mridha
#25. See yourself as a long-term work in progress, not a short-term project of preservation.
Oli Anderson
#26. Living a short life as a proud person is more worthwhile than living a whole century as a chameleon.
Eraldo Banovac
#27. I lived with my mother for only a short time. Even though I left, she is always surrounding me with her love.
Debasish Mridha
#29. Life is too short. I forgive and forget. I have not time to get mad or hate.
Debasish Mridha
#30. A decent life, even a short life, will always be far better than an exceptionally long life lived in ruin.
Steven J. Carroll
#31. For a short time, your beauty is an important matter. It the long run, what is important is what you are.
Debasish Mridha
#32. Life is but a short and fevered rehearsal for a concert we cannot stay to give.
Stephen Christian
#33. In short, bioethics investigates ethical issues arising in the life sciences (medicine, health care, genetics, biology, research, etc) by applying the principles and methods of moral philosophy to these problems.
Adele Langlois
#34. In history, we are concerned with what has been and what is; in philosophy, however, we are concerned not with what belongs exclusively to the past or to the future, but with that which is, both now and eternally - in short, with reason.
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
#35. The true champion of justice, if he intends to survive even for a short time, must necessarily confine himself to private life and leave politics alone.
Socrates
#36. A measure of such things which in any degree falls short of the whole truth is not fair measure; for nothing imperfect is the measure of anything, although persons are too apt to be contented and think that they need search no further.
Plato
#37. Life is simple and short but love is infinite and eternal. So give it away, as much as you can, without judging anyone.
Debasish Mridha
#38. The music of kindness may be short lived, but its echoes are everlasting.
Debasish Mridha
#39. Life is short and truth works far and lives long: let us speak the truth.
Arthur Schopenhauer
#40. In early spring, every petal of tulips sing a song of love and life, dance with joy and happiness to enjoy her short life of dazzling beauty.
Debasish Mridha
#41. the whole philosophy behind this book is that true success lies in knowing your weaknesses and playing to your strengths. In short, when you suck at something and don't want it anyway, cut your losses and move on.
Sophia Amoruso
#42. 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
#43. I'm just sick of the way things are. We're in an age in which we can't live without accepting the logic of the market. Contemporary politics is all about short-term pragmatism. We have abandoned religion and philosophy ... What we have left is the automatisation of doing what the market tells us.
Jose Mujica
#44. All the terrible things we do to ourselves and others from alcoholism to character assignation to abuse to murder come from one cause: the inability to stay present with an uncomfortable feeling in the body and seek short-term relief.
Pema Chodron
#45. Mourn, cry, be sad god doesn't give a fuck. The life has been taken in one or other way and it can't be done anything that's all, it's not big philosophy - it's short and it can't be more longer than this!
Deyth Banger
#46. Jane lives by this philosophy: Life, especially that of dogs, is too short for harsh training and too long to be without learning.
Jane Young
#47. So it is: we are not given a short life but we make it short, and we are not Ill-supplied but wasteful of it.
Seneca.
#49. Jonathan Seagull discovered that boredom and fear and anger are the reasons that a gull's life is so short, and with those gone from his thought, he lived a long fine life indeed.
Richard Bach
#50. You should always look on human life as short and cheap. Yesterday sperm: tomorrow a mummy or ashes.
Marcus Aurelius
#51. Life is so transient and ephemeral; we will not be here after a breath. So think better, think deeply, think with kindness, and write it with love so that it may live a little longer.
Debasish Mridha
#53. Life is short but donation of life could have a long life.
Debasish Mridha
#54. Government's view of the economy could be summed up in a few short phrases: If it moves, tax it. If it keeps moving, regulate it. And if it stops moving, subsidize it.
Ronald Reagan
#55. Philosophy alone makes the mind invincible, and places us out of the reach of fortune, so that all her arrows fall short of us.
Seneca The Younger
#56. There is no poetry or song.
There is no short or long.
There is only you.
Debasish Mridha
#57. Cherish every relationship in your life. There are certain things in life that can't be fixed if broken!
Avijeet Das
#58. There was some expiration point to my life, and it became very important to maximize the time that I did have on Earth. That's what led me to my personal philosophy: "No Opportunity Wasted" - NOW for short, which is about living life to the fullest.
Phil Keoghan
#59. Nature in no case cometh short of art, for the arts are copiers of natural forms.
Marcus Aurelius
#60. As you say of yourself, I too am an Epicurean. I consider the genuine (not the imputed) doctrines of Epicurus as containing everything rational in moral philosophy which Greece and Rome have left us.
[Letter to William Short, 31 October 1819]
Thomas Jefferson
#61. Not telling is just as interesting as telling I have found. Why speech, that short verbal journey from inside to outside can be excrutiating under certain circumstances is fascinating.
Siri Hustvedt
#62. Our life is sweet, short, and bright. We have enough moments to enjoy the delights of life.
Debasish Mridha
#63. Life is short - while we speak it flies; enjoy, then, the present, and forget the future; such is the moral of ancient poetry, a graceful and a wise moral - indulged beneath a southern sky, and all deserving, the phrase applied to it - the philosophy of the garden.
Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
#64. Anyway, that's the past, and what matters is the future. That's how life works, because it's short and precious and kind of doubtful.
Terry Brooks
#65. Life is so short, transient, and beautiful that there is not enough time to get old.
Debasish Mridha
#66. In short, philosophical theories are largely the product of the hidden hand of the cognitive unconscious.
George Lakoff
#67. Life is rather a short walk through eternity. Be they seeds, pups or infants, on the trek all pick up weight, sensitivity and awareness. Then, much before the end of the run, they deteriorate, head, legs and lungs. The tragicomedy of existence: the long walk of slow decay.
Dagobert D. Runes
#68. Be a life long or short, its completeness depends on what it was lived for.
David Starr Jordan
#69. First impressions are rarely worth preserving. Men typically fall short of our expectations.
Renate Linnenkoper
#70. If I'd learned nothing else in my twenty-seven years on this planet, I'd learned that when someone gives you something totally unexpected and undeserved, you don't ask questions.
Jill D. Block
#71. Zsoronga, Sorweel was beginning to realize, possessed the enviable ability to yoke his conviction to his need - to believe, absolutely, whatever his heart required. For Sorweel, belief and want always seemed like ropes too short to bind together, forcing him to play the knot as a result.
R. Scott Bakker
#72. I read these words which are the sum of all moral philosophy, and which cut short all the disputes of the casuists: When in doubt if an action is good or bad, refrain.
Voltaire
#73. Duration of life is short but donation of life could be unbounded.
Debasish Mridha
#75. Despite its successes, in the end, philosophical thinking always falls short of its real goal. It involves both the wonder of aspiring toward the Truth and the distress of falling short of that Truth. In this way, philosophy can be characterized as wondrous distress.
John Marmysz
#76. Life is a flower in the garden of humanity. It blooms for a short time and then slowly it disappears and becomes a memory on the canvas of infinite time.
Debasish Mridha
