Detachment Quote by Rebecca Goldstein

And usually [the philosopher] philosophizes either in order to resign himself to life, or to seek some finality in it, or to distract himself…

— Miguel de Unamuno

The whole life of the philosopher is a preparation for death.

— Plato

To philosophize is to learn to die.

— Michel de Montaigne

“To philosophise is to learn how to die.”

— Michael de Montaigne

Philosophy is the art of dying.Philosophy is an activity that has always been concerned with how one seizes hold of one's mortality, and I…

— Simon Critchley

To philosophize is nothing else than to prepare oneself for death.

— Michel de Montaigne

To the philosopher, death is but the next great adventure.

— J K Rowling

“for philosophy, Socrates, if pursued in moderation and at the proper age, is an elegant accomplishment, but too much philosophy is the ruin of…

— Plato

Death is the real inspiring genius or Musagetes of philosophy, and for this reason Socrates defined philosophy as thanatou mélétè (preparation for death; Plato,…

— Luce Irigaray

“To philosophize is to learn to die – philosophizing is a soaring up to the Godhead – the knowledge of Being as Being. “Philosophy…

— Karl Jaspers

To study philosophy is nothing but to prepare one’s self to die.

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

The whole life of a philosopher is the meditation of his death.

— Marcus Tullius Cicero