Philosophy Quotes

"Everything that exists is born for no reason, carries on living through weakness, and dies by accident." "It is therefore senseless to think of complaining since nothing foreign has decided what we feel, what we live, or what we are." "One always dies too soon or too late. And yet, life is there, finished: the line is drawn, and it must all be added up. You are nothing other than your life." "Life has no meaning a priori. It is up to you to give it a meaning, and value is nothing but the meaning that you choose." "If most of us valued food and cheer above hoarded gold, it would be a much merrier world" "Let him not vow to walk in the dark, who has not seen the nightfall" "Nature's imagination is so much greater than man's, she's never going to let us relax" "The highest forms of understanding we can achieve are laughter and human compassion" "Fall in love with some activity and do it Nobody ever figures out what life is all about, and it doesn't matter" "I'd hate to die twice It's so boring" "Would you believe in what you believe in if you were the only one who believed it" "We can only have a coherent conception of reality—our conscious experience of it, that is—if we pay attention to its contents one by one, moment by moment" "Where is wisdom we have lost in knowledge? Where is knowledge we have lost in information?" "Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art... It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things which give value to survival" "Life is either a great adventure or nothing." "I know that I am intelligent because I know that I know nothing" "There is only one good, knowledge, and one evil, ignorance" "Prefer knowledge to wealth, for the one is transitory, the other perpetual" "The greatest way to live with honor in this world is to be what we pretend to be" "To define is to limit."