“Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.”
Søren Kierkegaard · Journals, 1843
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Philosophy Quotes
180 quotes on philosophy and the big questions — from the classics to the everyday.
“To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.”
Oscar Wilde · The Soul of Man Under Socialism, 1891
“The unexamined life is not worth living.”
Socrates · Plato's Apology, c. 399 BC
“You could leave life right now. Let that determine what you do and say and think.”
Marcus Aurelius · Meditations, Book 4
“The mystery of human existence lies not in just staying alive, but in finding something to live for.”
Fyodor Dostoevsky · The Brothers Karamazov, 1880
“It is not that I'm so smart. But I stay with the questions much longer.”
Albert Einstein
“What we think, we become.”
Buddha · Dhammapada
“Wherever you are is the entry point.”
Kabir
“Even the act of listening is a creative act.”
Ryuichi Sakamoto
“There is no music without structure, but structure alone is not music.”
Ryuichi Sakamoto
“I started to feel that silence itself is music.”
Ryuichi Sakamoto
“I think music is the most universal language, and it is a language that can say things that words cannot.”
Ryuichi Sakamoto · Interview, Red Bull Music Academy, 2014
“The sound of rain needs no translation.”
Ryuichi Sakamoto
“Ars longa, vita brevis.”
Hippocrates · Aphorisms
“Technology is neither good nor bad; nor is it neutral.”
Melvin Kranzberg · Kranzberg's First Law, 1986
“I would like to die on a day when I am feeling nothing. Like water.”
Ryuichi Sakamoto · Interview, 2017
“Music is not something you create. It is something you discover.”
Ryuichi Sakamoto
