Philosophy Quotes

"Philosophy is the attempt to make sense of the senseless."

"The soul of Russia beats with a rhythm the rest of the world cannot comprehend."

"What is drama but life with the dull bits cut out?"

"To Russian soul, suffering is as normal as water."

"If there is no God, then everything is permitted."

"The truth, sir, is that even philosophers are men."

"The sun shone, having no alternative, on nothing new."

"Where I am, I don't know, I'll never know."

"What does it matter? Nothing matters."

"I don't know why I'm alive."

"To be is to be contingent."

"I think therefore I am confused."

"The world is absurd."

"The void is within us all."

"The world spins on indifferently."

"The human condition is absurd."

"The mind is its own prison."

"Mysticism and occultism are for those with weak intellect."

"The two sources of conscience are reason and feeling."

"My position is a very simple one: that if there is no God, then conscience itself is a delusion."

"Evil does not exist. There is only the absence of good."

"Despair is the price one pays for self-awareness."

"Consciousness is a disease."

"To be overly conscious is an illness."

"Every person stands on the edge of an abyss."

"In every person lies the potential for both good and evil."

"The greatest philosophical question is not why we suffer, but how we bear it."

"We are all born into exile, seeking always to return home."

"To understand oneself is the beginning of all philosophy."

"The past haunts us until we reconcile with it."