Quotes about Philosophy
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.
— Nancy Pearcey
The Warrior listens to the words of certain thinkers.
— Paulo Coelho
They live ill who expect to live always.
— Publilius Syrus
We should treat all the trivial things of life seriously, and all the serious things of life with sincere and studied triviality.
— Oscar Wilde
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.
— Rick Warren
The causes of life's history [cannot] resolve the riddle of life's meaning.
— Stephen Jay Gould
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.
— John F. Kennedy
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.
— Joseph Campbell
Everything about life is a joke. Don't you know that?
— Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
Nor do I regret that I have lived, since I have so lived that I think I was not born in vain, and I quit life as if it were an inn, not a home.
— Cicero
Axioms in philosophy are not axioms until they are proved upon our pulses: We read fine—things but never feel them to the full until we have gone the same steps as the Author.
— John Keats
I have an habitual feeling of my real life having passed, and that I am leading a posthumous existence.
— John Keats