Quotes about Philosophy

By the great Persian mystical poet Rumi: "Where there is ruin, there is hope for a treasure.

Human lives are hard, even those of health and privilege, and don't make much sense. This is the message of the Book of Job: Any snappy explanation of suffering you come up with will be horseshit. God tells Job, who wants an explanation for all his troubles, "You wouldn't understand.

Life is really fascinated only by death. It vibrates only when it comes in contact with death.

To a longer and worse life, a shorter and better is by all means to be preferred.

Because a human is a someone and not a something, the source of human life must also be a Someone - not the blind, automatic forces of nature, as philosophies like naturalism and materialism tell us.

The Warrior listens to the words of certain thinkers.

They live ill who expect to live always.

We should treat all the trivial things of life seriously, and all the serious things of life with sincere and studied triviality.

Everybody's got a worldview. Everybody's betting their life on something. ... You just better know why you're betting what you're betting on.

The causes of life's history [cannot] resolve the riddle of life's meaning.

There are only two realities in life: death and laughter. We can do nothing to change the former, so we might as well do all we can to save the latter.

One can experience an unconditional affirmation of life only when one has accepted death, not as contrary to life, but as an aspect of it.