Philosophy Quotes

"We are all born philosophers until life teaches us stupidity."

"To observe is to live; not to observe is merely to exist."

"Life is not a problem to be solved but a mystery to be lived."

"To judge another is to reveal one's own values and limitations."

"The moment one gives close attention to any thing, it becomes interesting."

"We do not see the world as it is; we see it as we are."

"The only true paradox is that there are no paradoxes."

"The universe speaks to those who listen with their hearts."

"One cannot be and have been at the same time."

"Every man has within himself the whole of human experience."

"Every sin is a miracle of egotism."

"I believe that an opinion is as much the truth as is a fact."

"An intellectual is a person who believes that facts are less important than ideas."

"Selfishness is not evil if it serves the development of one's soul."

"The only life worth living is the life of the spirit."

"The absurd is the essential concept and the only truth."

"There is but one truly serious philosophical problem and that is suicide."

"There is but one law and that is the law of life itself."

"An absurd reasoning is reasoning which presents the absurd."

"Suicide is the one really serious philosophical problem."

"I sometimes think that a person is here on earth to take up space and reproduce itself before dying."

"In the context of the absurd, a man's existence is preceded by a sort of halo."

"What I know about mortality, I owe to Sisyphus."

"After Plato, to be is to think."

"Madness is to think of all humanity and to make a savior of oneself."

"There is but one truly serious philosophical problem, and that is suicide: judging whether life is or is not worth living."

"One's life is defined by one's response to the absurdity of existence."

"The cradle rocks above an abyss, and common sense tells us that our existence is but a brief crack of light between two eternities of darkness."

"There is no greater sorrow than to recall happiness in times of misery."

"Ethics is concerned with facts, not with sentiments."