Philosophy Quotes

When we put down ideas of what life should be like, we are free to wholeheartedly say yes to our life as it is.

If Martin [Luther King, Jr.]’s philosophy had been embraced and lived out in Iraq and other places, we wouldn’t have bin Ladens.

As we live our precarious lives on the brink of the void, constantly coming closer to a state of nonbeing, we are all too often aware of our fragitlity.

Why is there anything at all rather than nothing whatsoever?

Others can give you a name or a number, but they can never tell you who you really are. That is something you yourself can only discover from within.

Man’s shortcomings and sins are all due to the substance of the body and not to its form; while all his merits are exclusively due to his form.

If you’re afraid to die you won’t be able to live.

Reality really is a theatre. There’s no other way to describe it. It’s all so nonsensical, ridiculous and chaotic.

A man is never completely alone in this world. At the worst, he has the company of a boy, a youth, and by and by a grown man – the one he used to be.

We leave something of ourselves behind when we leave a place, but we find things in us we didn’t even know existed.