Philosophy-of-life Quotes

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...

Be noble minded! Our own heart, and not other men's opinions of us, forms our true honor.

How big is a man's life?" asked Ultan."I have no way of knowing, but isn't it larger than that?""You...

The reasonable man adapts himself to the world: the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the...

pg.90 of Philosophy in the Flesh: We are basing our argument on the existence of at least three stab...

It struck him that the true characteristic thing about modern life was not its cruelty and insecurit...

The work of great poetry is to aid us to become free artists ourselves...The art of reading poetry i...

Before I can live with other folks I've got to live with myself. The one thing that doesn't abide by...

All kinds of things are happening to me." I begin. ,,Some I choose, some I didn't. I don't know how ...

At the same time that 'I' am the content of a relation, 'I' am also that which does the relating.

When shit becomes valuable, the poor will be born without assholes.

Nature loves to hide.

...flight from tyranny does not of itself insure a safe asylum, far less a happy home.

Often ill comes from the good, as good from ill.

... the river is everywhere at once, at the source and at the mouth, at the waterfall, at the ferry,...

Alas, Siddhartha, I see you suffering, but you're suffering a pain at which one would like to laugh,...

We must believe in free will, we have no choice.

I have never, in all my life, not for one moment, been tempted toward religion of any kind. The fact...

Reading is going toward something that is about to be, and no one yet knows what it will be.

Writing is turning life's worst moments into money.

Other things being roughly equal, that man lives most keenly who lives in closest harmony with natur...

It may seem contradictory, but in the languid tropics one spends more time contemplating those great...

Things, relationship, and ideas are so transparently impermanent, we are ever made unhappy by them.....

The Native Americans know that wolves are mirrors for humans. What they show us are our strengths an...

The Lord enjoins us to do good to all without exception, though the greater part, if estimated by th...

Of all affairs, communication is the most wonderful.

The existence of broccoli does not in any way affect the taste of chocolate".

The existence of broccoli does not in any way affect the taste of chocolate.

As Garp put it, 'You only grow by coming to the end of something and by beginning something else.' E...

The only freedom which deserves the name, is that of pursuing our own good in our own way, so long a...

A lot of people see doubt as legitimate philosophical posture. They think of themselves in the middl...

Happiness exists on earth, and it is won through prudent exercise of reason, knowledge of the harmon...

I am I and my circumstance; and, if I do not save it, I do not save myself.

Reason is the inextinguishable impulse to philosophize with whose destruction reason itself is destr...

As to the roaming of sages,They move in utter emptiness,Let their minds meander in the great nothing...

The Master, by residing in the Tao,sets an example for all beings.Because he doesn't display himself...

...suffering and freedom have their limits...those limits are very near together.

Man lives consciously for himself but unconsciously he serves as an instrument for the accomplishmen...

There are two sides to the life of every man: there is his individual existence which is free in pro...

Man is created for happiness, that happiness lies in himself, in the satisfaction of simple human ne...