Philosophy Quotes

"To be is to be perceived, or is it?"

"We are all trapped in our own minds."

"The human race is a failed experiment."

"There is no exit because there is no entrance."

"We are all born to be unhappy."

"There is no meaning, except what we desperately invent."

"The rich and the poor are not enemies, but rather creatures of habit."

"The absurd is only too necessary on earth; all is absurd."

"The more refined one's tastes, the more one suffers."

"Everything is relative, even morality."

"People are not born evil; they are corrupted by circumstance."

"Philosophy is common sense in a dinner jacket."

"An Englishman thinks he is moral when he is only uncomfortable."

"How can we know the dancer from the dance?"

"The task of understanding and interpreting the world is the business of philosophy."

"Consciousness is not the governing thing; it is only the recording thing."

"The shadow is as much a part of the man as the light."

"Philosophy is the pursuit of wisdom."

"Philosophy questions everything."

"Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions."

"I never take any notice of what common people say, and I never interfere with what charming people do."

"I have no sympathy with middle-class morality."

"In matters of great importance, style, not sincerity, is the vital thing."

"All that matters is to eat and excrete and procreate."

"The mind swayed this way and that by its perceptions."

"The fact is, there are two fools in every transaction."

"The tears of the world are an illusion."

"The good of the bad outweighs the bad of the good."

"Nothing in the world makes people so irritable as not being bored."

"The end is in the beginning, and yet we always miss it."