“The mystery of human existence lies not in just staying alive, but in finding something to live for.”
Fyodor Dostoevsky · The Brothers Karamazov, 1880
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Philosophy Quotes
363 quotes on philosophy and the big questions — from the classics to the everyday.
“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
“The superior man is satisfied and composed; the mean man is always full of distress.”
Confucius · The Analects, Book VII
“He who learns but does not think is lost. He who thinks but does not learn is in great danger.”
Confucius · The Analects, Book II
“Learning without thought is labor lost; thought without learning is perilous.”
Confucius · The Analects, Book II, c. 5th century BCE
“He who attends to his greater self becomes a great man, and he who attends to his smaller self becomes a small man.”
Mencius · Mencius, Book VI A
