Without work, all life goes rotten. But when work is soulless, life stifles and dies.
Albert CamusLife would pall if it were all sugar; salt is bitter if taken by itself; but when tasted as part of the dish, it savours the meat. Difficulties are the salt of life.
Robert Baden-PowellAs a well-spent day brings happy sleep, so a life well spent brings happy death.
Leonardo da VinciMan is not the sum of what he has already, but rather the sum of what he does not yet have, of what he could have.
Jean-Paul SartreIt is said that the present is pregnant with the future.
VoltaireOur existence is beyond our explanation, whether we believe in God or we have religion or we’re atheist. Our existence is beyond our understanding. No one has an answer.
Anthony HopkinsEvery man must do two things alone; he must do his own believing and his own dying.
Martin LutherThere is no such thing as justice in the abstract; it is merely a compact between men.
EpicurusOnly when you drink from the river of silence shall you indeed sing. And when you have reached the mountain top, then you shall begin to climb. And when the earth shall claim your limbs, then shall you truly dance.
Khalil GibranThe love of life is necessary to the vigorous prosecution of any undertaking.
Samuel JohnsonWisdom is found only in truth.
Johann Wolfgang von GoetheThe greatest destroyer of peace is abortion because if a mother can kill her own child, what is left for me to kill you and you to kill me? There is nothing between.
Mother TeresaEnlightenment is always there. Small enlightenment will bring great enlightenment. If you breathe in and are aware that you are alive – that you can touch the miracle of being alive – then that is a kind of enlightenment.
Thich Nhat HanhBut friendship is precious, not only in the shade, but in the sunshine of life, and thanks to a benevolent arrangement the greater part of life is sunshine.
Thomas JeffersonI wash my hands of those who imagine chattering to be knowledge, silence to be ignorance, and affection to be art.
Khalil GibranFootball (soccer) is a matter of life and death, except more important.
Bill ShanklyBefore God we are all equally wise – and equally foolish.
Albert EinsteinMisfortune seldom intrudes upon the wise man; his greatest and highest interests are directed by reason throughout the course of life.
EpicurusIf my life was a movie, no one would believe it.
Arnold SchwarzeneggerIt is the eye of other people that ruin us. If I were blind I would want, neither fine clothes, fine houses or fine furniture.
Benjamin FranklinI have always held firmly to the thought that each one of us can do a little to bring some portion of misery to an end.
Albert SchweitzerLife levels all men. Death reveals the eminent.
George Bernard ShawAll sciences are now under the obligation to prepare the ground for the future task of the philosopher, which is to solve the problem of value, to determine the true hierarchy of values.
Friedrich NietzscheIf you pursue good with labor, the labor passes away but the good remains; if you pursue evil with pleasure, the pleasure passes away and the evil remains.
Marcus Tullius CiceroIt was a Greek tragedy. Nixon was fulfilling his own nature. Once it started it could not end otherwise.
Henry KissingerI think any life can be interesting, any surroundings can be interesting. I don’t think I could have been so brave if I had been living in a town, competing with people on what can be called a generally higher cultural level.
Alice MunroBut although all our knowledge begins with experience, it does not follow that it arises from experience.
Immanuel KantTo teach how to live without certainty and yet without being paralysed by hesitation is perhaps the chief thing that philosophy, in our age, can do for those who study it.
Bertrand RussellFrom such crooked wood as that which man is made of, nothing straight can be fashioned.
Immanuel KantLife becomes harder for us when we live for others, but it also becomes richer and happier.
Albert SchweitzerPerhaps I know best why it is man alone who laughs; he alone suffers so deeply that he had to invent laughter.
Friedrich NietzscheWhat can I know? What ought I to do? What can I hope?
Immanuel KantI remain convinced that obstinate addiction to ordinary language in our private thoughts is one of the main obstacles to progress in philosophy.
Bertrand RussellIf one does not know to which port one is sailing, no wind is favorable.
Lucius Annaeus SenecaMost of the luxuries and many of the so-called comforts of life are not only not indispensable, but positive hindrances to the elevation of mankind.
Henry David ThoreauIf you want to make God laugh, tell him about your plans.
Woody AllenOld age: the crown of life, our play’s last act.
Marcus Tullius CiceroDeath to me means nothing as long as I can die fast.
Bob DylanIn football, it’s the job of the player to play, the coach to coach, the official to officiate. Each guy is charged with upholding his end, nothing more. In golf, the player, coach and official are rolled into one, and they overlap completely. Golf really is the best microcosm of life – or at least the way life should be.
Lou HoltzI love sleep. My life has the tendency to fall apart when I’m awake, you know?
Ernest HemingwayIt is folly for a man to pray to the gods for that which he has the power to obtain by himself.
EpicurusMetaphysics is a dark ocean without shores or lighthouse, strewn with many a philosophic wreck.
Immanuel KantFor in the final analysis, our most basic common link is that we all inhabit this small planet. We all breathe the same air. We all cherish our children’s futures. And we are all mortal.
John F. KennedyI don’t expect to live forever, but I do intend to hang on as long as possible.
Isaac AsimovThe only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that your very existence is an act of rebellion.
Albert CamusA well-written life is almost as rare as a well-spent one.
Thomas CarlyleIf you were to destroy the belief in immortality in mankind, not only love but every living force on which the continuation of all life in the world depended, would dry up at once.
Fyodor DostoevskyLife is really simple, but we insist on making it complicated.
ConfuciusWho is rich? He that is content. Who is that? Nobody.
Benjamin FranklinMan will occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of the time he will pick himself up and continue on.
Winston ChurchillWords are loaded pistols.
Jean-Paul SartreModeration is the center wherein all philosophies, both human and divine, meet.
Benjamin DisraeliPremature certainty is the enemy of the truth.
Nipsey HussleThe cosmos is about the smallest hole that a man can hide his head in.
Gilbert K. ChestertonEvil is whatever distracts.
Franz KafkaNo notice is taken of a little evil, but when it increases it strikes the eye.
AristotleConvictions are more dangerous foes of truth than lies.
Friedrich NietzscheLife is ten percent what happens to you and ninety percent how you respond to it.
Lou HoltzThe natural desire of good men is knowledge.
Leonardo da VinciReligion and philosophy are to be preserved distinct. We are not to introduce divine revelations into philosophy, nor philosophical opinions into religion.
Isaac Newton