Philosophy-of-life Quotes

Disappointment will come when your effort does not give you the expected return. If things don’t go ...

If we have any role at all, I think it’s the role of optimism, not blind or stupid optimism, but the...

The impatient idealist says: 'Give me a place to stand and I shall move the earth.' But such a place...

As human beings, our first commandment is:Something needs to happen

I just know that I don't want cheating. I refuse. I deepened myself but I don't believe in myself be...

If you don't know the exact moment when the lights will go out, you might as well read until they do...

We’re beings towards death, we’re featherless two-legged linguistically conscious creatures born bet...

We’re beings toward death, we’re … two-legged, linguistically-conscious creatures born between urine...

He was a thinker, but also a man of action.

Life is about refinement, not perfection. And you still have refining to do.

...I should always find, the calamities of life were shared among the upper and lower part of mankin...

I have a very simple philosophy of life:Kindness. Ferocious, unrelenting, ruthless, committed, passi...

Stay low, stay quiet, keep it simple, don't expect too much, enjoy what you have.

There's no tragedy in nature, only process -- and therefore no triumph, either.

To learn the way of the Buddha is to learn about oneself. To learn about oneself is to forget onesel...

So long as we exist, death is not with us; but when death comes, then we do not exist

A crude age. Peace is stabilized with cannon and bombers, humanity with concentration camps and pogr...

It's not much. You begin by thinking there is something extraordinary about it. But you'll find out,...

A man can gasp out his life beside you-and you feel none of it. Pity, Sympathy, sure-but you don't f...

Civilization – and by this I do not mean talking cinemas and tinned food, nor even surgery and hygie...

To pretend is to know oneself.

To leave is to suffer,to survive is to find some meaning in the suffering.

Every Profound thinker is more afraid of being understood than of being misunderstood

Thus the man who is responsive to artistic stimuli reacts to the reality of dreams as does the philo...

Be noble minded! Our own heart, and not other men's opinions of us, forms our true honor.

How big is a man's life?" asked Ultan."I have no way of knowing, but isn't it larger than that?""You...

The reasonable man adapts himself to the world: the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the...

pg.90 of Philosophy in the Flesh: We are basing our argument on the existence of at least three stab...

It struck him that the true characteristic thing about modern life was not its cruelty and insecurit...

The work of great poetry is to aid us to become free artists ourselves...The art of reading poetry i...

Before I can live with other folks I've got to live with myself. The one thing that doesn't abide by...

All kinds of things are happening to me." I begin. ,,Some I choose, some I didn't. I don't know how ...

At the same time that 'I' am the content of a relation, 'I' am also that which does the relating.

When shit becomes valuable, the poor will be born without assholes.

Nature loves to hide.

...flight from tyranny does not of itself insure a safe asylum, far less a happy home.

Often ill comes from the good, as good from ill.

... the river is everywhere at once, at the source and at the mouth, at the waterfall, at the ferry,...

Alas, Siddhartha, I see you suffering, but you're suffering a pain at which one would like to laugh,...

We must believe in free will, we have no choice.

I have never, in all my life, not for one moment, been tempted toward religion of any kind. The fact...

Reading is going toward something that is about to be, and no one yet knows what it will be.

Writing is turning life's worst moments into money.

Other things being roughly equal, that man lives most keenly who lives in closest harmony with natur...

It may seem contradictory, but in the languid tropics one spends more time contemplating those great...

Things, relationship, and ideas are so transparently impermanent, we are ever made unhappy by them.....

The Native Americans know that wolves are mirrors for humans. What they show us are our strengths an...

The Lord enjoins us to do good to all without exception, though the greater part, if estimated by th...

Of all affairs, communication is the most wonderful.

The existence of broccoli does not in any way affect the taste of chocolate".

The existence of broccoli does not in any way affect the taste of chocolate.

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...