Philosophy Quotes

""If you enjoy the fragrance of a rose, you must accept the thorns which it bears.""

- Isaac Hayes

""We don’t ask a flower any special reason for its existence. We just look at it and are able to accept it as being something different for ourselves.""

- Gwendolyn Brooks

"Of course I’ll hurt you. Of course you’ll hurt me. Of course we will hurt each other. But this is the very condition of existence. To become spring, means accepting the risk of winter. To become presence, means accepting the risk of absence."

- Antoine de Saint

"Hurt is a part of life. To be honest, I think hurt is a part of happiness, that our definition of happiness has gotten very narrow lately, very nervous, a little afraid of this brawling, fabulous, unpredictable world."

- Julian Gough

"You can't make a souffle rise twice."

- Alice Roosevelt Longworth

"A corpse is meat gone bad. Well and what's cheese? Corpse of milk."

- James Joyce

"How can you govern a country which has 246 varieties of cheese?"

- Charles de Gaulle

"If God did not intend for us to eat animals, then why did he make them out of meat?"

- John Cleese

"God is a concept by which we measure our pain."

- John Lennon

"I don't know which will go first - rock 'n' roll or Christianity."

- John Lennon

"And God help Bruce Springsteen when they decide he's no longer God... They'll turn on him, and I hope he survives it."

- John Lennon

"Surrealism had a great effect on me because then I realised that the imagery in my mind wasn't insanity. Surrealism to me is reality."

- John Lennon

"Jesus was all right, but his disciples were thick and ordinary. It's them twisting it that ruins it for me."

- John Lennon

"Possession isn't nine-tenths of the law. It's nine-tenths of the problem."

- John Lennon

"I believe time wounds all heels."

- John Lennon

"Everybody loves you when you're six foot in the ground."

- John Lennon

"Guilt for being rich, and guilt thinking that perhaps love and peace isn't enough and you have to go and get shot or something."

- John Lennon

"Christianity will go. It will vanish and shrink. I needn't argue with that; I'm right and I will be proved right. We're more popular than Jesus now; I don't know which will go first - rock and roll or Christianity."

- John Lennon

"We're more popular than Jesus now; I don't know which will go first, rock 'n' roll or Christianity."

- John Lennon

"Life is what happens to you, While you're busy making other plans."

- John Lennon

"It's better to fade away like an old soldier than to burn out."

- John Lennon

"Everything is as important as everything else."

- John Lennon

"Life is what happens to you while you're busy making other plans."

- John Lennon

"Nothing is permanent in this wicked world—not even our troubles."

- Charlie Chaplin

"Nothing in the affairs of men is worthy of great anxiety."

- Plato

"A man will be imprisoned in a room with a door that's unlocked and opens inwards; as long as it does not occur to him to pull rather than push."

- Lugwig Wittgenstein

"“It ain’t about how fast you get there. It’s the journey that matters.”"

- Tim McGraw

"“No hour of life is wasted that is spent in the saddle.”"

- Winston Churchill

"All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That’s his."

"Death is a challenge it tells us"