Philosophy-of-life Quotes

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...

It’s no use going back to yesterday, because I was a different person then.

Worrying is the most natural and spontaneous of all human functions. It is time to acknowledge this,...

Every man must find his own philosophy, his attitude towards life.

Happiness for me is largely a matter of digestion.

There is a certain proper and luxurious way of lying in bed. Confucius, that great artist of life, "...

If one's bowels move, one is happy, and if they don't move, one is unhappy. That is all there is to ...

Those who are wise won't be busy, and those who are too busy can't be wise.

Reality - Dreams = Animal BeingReality + Dreams = A Heart-Ache (usually called Idealism)Reality + Hu...

An infinite question is often destroyed by finite answers...To define everything is to annihilate mu...

In your language you have a form of poetry called a sonnet...It is a very strict form of poetry, is ...

Sexual ecstasy is like death. It is one of the secrets of nature’s wisdom.

…praise does not make anything better or worse.

The world is mere change, and this life, opinion.

Be like a rocky promontory against which the restless surf continually pounds; it stands fast while ...

Be your own master, and look at things as a man, as a human being, as a citizen, as a mortal creatur...

What you don’t know won’t hurt you. A dubious maxim: sometimes what you don’t know can hurt you very...

But the elastic heart of youth cannot be compressed into one constrained shape long at a time.

You're too young to decide to live forever.

There are people who can never go to Fantastica," said Mr. Coreander, "and others who can, but who s...

In any given culture and at any given moment, there is always only one 'episteme' that defines the c...

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...