Quotes about Philosophy

The life of West, Nietzsche said, is based on Christianity. The values of the West are based on Christianity. Some of these values seem to have taken a life of their own, and this gives us the illusion that we can get rid of Christianity and keep the values. This, Nietzsche says, is an illusion...Remove the Christian foundation, and the values must go too.

Me and God have a great relationship, but we're both seeing other people.

I would rather live my life as if there is a God and die to find out there isn't, than live as if there isn't and to die to find out that there is.

Do not believe yourself healthy. Immortality is health; this life is a long sickness.

Let the stoics say what they please, we do not eat for the good of living, but because the meat is savory and the appetite is keen.

Death is nothing to us, since when we are, death has not come, and when death has come, we are not.

The ancient Greek definition of happiness was the full use of your powers along lines of excellence.

That I should die next week, I would still be able to sit at my desk all week and study with perfect equanimity, for I know now that life and death make a meaningful whole.

If we have been pleased with life, we should not be displeased with death, since it comes from the hand of the same master.

Life swings like a pendulum backward and forward between pain and boredom.

We can regard our life as a uselessly disturbing episode in the blissful repose of nothingness.

Is there another Life? Shall I awake and find all this a dream? There must be we cannot be created for this sort of suffering.