Quotes about Philosophy
The test of all beliefs is their practical effect in life. If it be true that optimism compels the world forward, and pessimism retards it, then it is dangerous to propagate a pessimistic philosophy.
— Helen Keller
Why should we be startled by death? Life is a constant putting off of the mortal coil - coat, cuticle, flesh and bones, all old clothes.
— Henry David Thoreau
Expedients are for the hour, but principles are for the ages.
— Henry Ward Beecher
When does life begin? When does the soul enter? That's a religious question. Science is not going to be able to help with that.
— Francis Collins
It might be possible that the world itself is without meaning.
— Virginia Woolf
It was previously a question of finding out whether or not life had to have a meaning to be lived. It now becomes clear on the contrary that it will be lived all the better if it has no meaning
— Albert Camus
The state comes into existence for the sake of life and continues to exist for the sake of good life.
— Aristotle
Where all life dies death lives.
— John Milton
The most desirable thing in life after health and modest means is leisure with dignity.
— Cicero
The early Christian rules of life were not made to last, because the early Christians did not believe that the world itself was going to last.
— George Bernard Shaw
The good die young, because they see it's no use living if you have got to be good.
— John Barrymore
A good supply of resignation is of the first importance in providing for the journey of life.
— Arthur Schopenhauer