Philosophers quotes on life and death

1. What is a famous quote about death?
2. What philosophers say about death?
3. What does philosophers say about life?
4. What did Marcus Aurelius say about death?
5. What is a comfort quote for death?
6. What did Plato say about death?
7. What did Socrates say about death?
8. What did Socrates say at death?
9. What did Plato say about life?
10. What did Aristotle say about life?

What is a famous quote about death?

“Our dead are never dead to us until we have forgotten them.” — George Eliot, English author. “Death smiles at us all, all a man can do is smile back.” — Marcus Aurelius, Roman emperor.

What philosophers say about death?

From another philosophical perspective, Epicurus, a Hellenistic philosopher, coined a famous argument about death: “Death is nothing to us. When we are, death is not come, and when death is come, we are not.”

What does philosophers say about life?

Life is the consciousness of humanity; it is perception of the world and the universe. So life is sadness; life is death. Life is suffering and destruction. But life is also happiness; life is living.

What did Marcus Aurelius say about death?

“The longest-lived and those who will die soonest lose the same thing. The present is all that they can give up, since that is all you have, and what you do not have, you cannot lose.”

What is a comfort quote for death?

“Sorrow is so easy to express and yet so hard to tell.” “A wounded heart will heal in time, and when it does, the memory and love of our loved ones are sealed inside to comfort us.” “Grant but memory to us, and we lose nothing by death.” “There is no pain so great as the memory of joy in present grief.”

What did Plato say about death?

For example, Plato explains that the soul is immortal and will remain (in a spiritual sense) after the physical destruction of the body. He explains that the fear of death is only natural to humans, but death should be viewed as the achievement of life.

What did Socrates say about death?

To fear death is nothing other than to think oneself wise when one is not; for it is to think one knows what one does not know. No man knows whether death may not even turn out to be the greatest blessing for a human being; and yet people fear it as if they knew for certain that is is the greatest of evil.

What did Socrates say at death?

So I come back to my question about the meaning of the last words of Socrates, when he says, in his dying words: don't forget to sacrifice a rooster to Asklepios. As I begin to formulate an answer, I must repeat something that I have already highlighted.

What did Plato say about life?

Plato proposed that our lives go wrong in large part because we almost never give ourselves time to think carefully and logically enough about our plans. And so we end up with the wrong values, careers and relationships. Plato wanted to bring order and clarity to our minds.

What did Aristotle say about life?

To summarise from Pursuit of Happiness (2018), according to Aristotle, the purpose and ultimate goal in life is to achieve eudaimonia ('happiness'). He believed that eudaimonia was not simply virtue, nor pleasure, but rather it was the exercise of virtue.