Philosophic questions are attempts to understand the root nature of reality, existence, and knowledge.

Death would not surprise us as often as it does, if we let go of the misbelief that newborns are less mortal than the elderly.

Life is going to beat you up, it wouldn't be fair if you didn't throw some punches back at it.

If you ask a tree how he feels to know that he's spreading his fragrance and making people happy, I don't think a tree looks at it that way. I am just like that, and it is just my nature to be like this.

We, ignorant of ourselves,Beg often our own harms, which the wise powersDeny us for our good; so find we profitBy losing of our prayers.