Philosophy-of-life Quotes

Parents rarely let go of their children, so children let go of them. They move on. They move away. T...

But a desperate heart will seduce the mind.

A grayeyard is not a democracy, and yet death is the great democracy..

Every day I add to the list of things I refuse to discuss. The wiser the man, the longer the list.

For a scientist, this is a good way to live and die, maybe the ideal way for any of us - excitedly f...

The essential reason for my loneliness is that I don't even know where I belong.

Dear little Swallow,’ said the Prince, ‘you tell me of marvelous things, but more marvelous than any...

If a man treats life artistically, his brain is his heart.

There can be no fairer spectacle than that of a man, who combines the possession of moral beauty in ...

The society we have described can never grow into a reality or see the light of day, and there will ...

Have you ever sensed that our soul is immortal and never dies?

At the touch of love everyone becomes a poet

Adharmenaidhate tabat, tato bhadrani pashyati, tatah sapatnan jayati, - samulastu vinashyati. In unr...

And what is written well and what is written badly...need we ask Lysias or any other poet or orator ...

You meet somebody at the seashore on a vacation and have a wonderful time together. Or in a corner a...

She wanted to say, I am made of smoke. My mind is smoke, my thoughts are smoke, I am all smoke and o...

Maybe in the case of true human, their mind, their soul, their consciousness flows through their bod...

Ibn Rushd caressing her body had often praised its beauty to the point at which she grew irritated a...

Our habitual failure to recognise thought as thought, our habitual identification with discursive th...

Habitual identification with discursive thought is the source of human suffering

To quench my longing I bent me low By the streams of the spirits of Peace that flow In that magical ...

Don't base reality on what you have seen when you have seen very little.

When you play with a gentleman, you play like a gentleman. But when you play with bastards, make sur...

So much of life, it seems, is determined by pure randomness.

So when the ruling ideology enjoins us to enjoy sex, not to feel guilty about it, since we are not b...

Life contains but two tragedies. One is not to get your heart’s desire the other is to get it.

All I know is that I do not know anything

Intelligent individuals learn from every thing and every one; average people, from their experiences...

The greatest mystery the universe offers is not life but size. Size encompasses life, and the Tower ...

The world was made in order to result in a beautiful book.

There's only so much room at the top of the heap. The rest of us are fill dirt.

There are three conditions which often look alikeYet differ completely, flourish in the same hedgero...

Nanny's philosophy of life was to do what seemed like a good idea at the time, and do it as hard as ...

Friendship is the source of the greatest pleasures, and without friends even the most agreeable purs...

The widespread willingness to rely on thermonuclear bombs as the ultimate weapon displays a cavalier...

There are two more turds, smaller ones, and when he has eaten these, residual shit to lick out of he...

Is that man's fate: to spend his closest hours to truth longing for a lie?

The illusion of the seventh veil was the illusion that you could get somebody else to do it for you....

In that pallid and sullen shadow in which he crawled, whenever he turned his head and endeavoured to...

Every man is a creature of the age in which he lives and few are able to raise themselves above the ...

An opportunity fordoing an injury happens a hundred times a day, hut for doing good not once a year,...

...our great modern error is the belief that we must invariably give up one thing in order to have a...

We are what we repeatedly do. Greatness then, is not an act, but a habit

You know that if I were reincarnated, I’d want to come back a buzzard. Nothing hates him or envies h...

Life itself is a rickety building

Let tomorrow cross its own rivers.

Duty were our games.

My apologies to chance for calling it necessity. My apologies to necessity if I'm mistaken, after al...

A house is a compressed territory where our basic needs can be fulfilled close by and safely.

If the idea of loving those whom you have been taught to recognize as your enemies is too overwhelmi...

Know yourself fearlessly (even quietly) for all the things you are.

It is not only the hostility of others that may prevent us from questioning the status quo. Our will...

It is difficult when reading the description of certain fictional characters not at the same time to...

It is this idea 'decency' should be attached to wealth -and 'indecency'' to poverty - that forms the...

Too late. It was all too late. But she went on, determined as ever and always trying to catch up.

When a traveler from the future must talk, he does not talk but whimpers. He whispers tortured sound...

There is no sun without shadow, and it is essential to know the night.

I think my life is of great importance, but I also think it is meaningless.

Among this bewildering multiplicity of ideals which shall we choose? The answer is that we shall cho...

A bird is safe in its nest - but that is not what its wings are made for.

The end toward which all human acts are directed is happiness.

The saddest of all tragedies - the wasted life

Work a lifetime to pay off a house. you finally own it, and there's nobody to live in it.

Life is a constant process of dying.

The best consolation in misfortune or affliction of any kind will be the thought of other people who...

Life is short and truth works far and lives long: let us speak the truth.

Socrates asked the key question: why should we be moral?

I like cigarettes, Miss Taggart. I like to think of fire held in a man’s hand. Fire, a dangerous for...

I asked Elsie how much food they needed from outside the community. 'Flour and sugar,' she said, and...

Occasionally we glimpse the South Rim, four or five thousand feet above. From the rims the canyon se...

Don’t be afraid of death so much as an inadequate life.

Most people would rather die than think and many of them do!

Kind words do not cost much. Yet they accomplish much

Life, at its best, is a flowing, changing process in which nothing is fixed.

If we are merely matter intricately assembled, is this really demeaning? If there's nothing here but...

Whether we realize it or not, most of us define ourselves by opposing rather than by favoring someth...

Disappointment will come when your effort does not give you the expected return. If things don’t go ...

If we have any role at all, I think it’s the role of optimism, not blind or stupid optimism, but the...

The impatient idealist says: 'Give me a place to stand and I shall move the earth.' But such a place...

As human beings, our first commandment is:Something needs to happen

I just know that I don't want cheating. I refuse. I deepened myself but I don't believe in myself be...

If you don't know the exact moment when the lights will go out, you might as well read until they do...

We’re beings towards death, we’re featherless two-legged linguistically conscious creatures born bet...

We’re beings toward death, we’re … two-legged, linguistically-conscious creatures born between urine...

He was a thinker, but also a man of action.

Life is about refinement, not perfection. And you still have refining to do.

...I should always find, the calamities of life were shared among the upper and lower part of mankin...

I have a very simple philosophy of life:Kindness. Ferocious, unrelenting, ruthless, committed, passi...

Stay low, stay quiet, keep it simple, don't expect too much, enjoy what you have.

There's no tragedy in nature, only process -- and therefore no triumph, either.

To learn the way of the Buddha is to learn about oneself. To learn about oneself is to forget onesel...

So long as we exist, death is not with us; but when death comes, then we do not exist

A crude age. Peace is stabilized with cannon and bombers, humanity with concentration camps and pogr...

It's not much. You begin by thinking there is something extraordinary about it. But you'll find out,...

A man can gasp out his life beside you-and you feel none of it. Pity, Sympathy, sure-but you don't f...

Civilization – and by this I do not mean talking cinemas and tinned food, nor even surgery and hygie...

To pretend is to know oneself.

To leave is to suffer,to survive is to find some meaning in the suffering.

Every Profound thinker is more afraid of being understood than of being misunderstood

Thus the man who is responsive to artistic stimuli reacts to the reality of dreams as does the philo...