97 Quotes About Philosophers

What is the meaning of life? Why are we here? Philosophers have pondered that question for centuries. I'm afraid the answer is disappointingly simple: Mating. That's it.

A particular concept would not exist in everyday communication from a person's perspective if he or she does not know how to represent his or her theory with valid meaning and reasoning.

The truth, he thought, has never been of any real value to any human being - it is a symbol for mathematicians and philosophers to pursue. In human relations kindness and lies are worth a thousand truths.

Some of the best things that have ever happened to us wouldn’t have happened to us, if it weren’t for some of the worst things that have ever happened to us.

So it is that, just as nature abhors a vacuum, philosophy abhors an answer, for once the truth is truly attained, the game is truly up.

As useful as an unhappy artist. As useless as a happy philosopher.

Keep those that influence you for the better close and never give them a reason to keep you far away.

Profound thinkers either become astute lovers or rebellious spirit” 

The complexities of adult life get in the way of the truth. The great philosophers have always been able to clear away the complexities and see simple distinctions - simple once they are stated, vastly difficult before. If we are to follow them we too must be childishly simple in our questions - and maturely wise in our replies.