Philosophy Quotes

"The human heart is an infinite mystery"

"A man is born, but in order to be born he must first die, and in order to die he must first awake."

"Everything is determined, the past as well as the future."

"There is no why."

"The events of life are already determined."

"The only way to do anything is to do nothing at all."

"The man in the street does not interest me unless he is suffering"

"It was a marvelous philosophical breakthrough and Yossarian didn't believe a word of it."

"The absence of a sense of guilt is a sure sign of great intellectual power"

"The only thing to do now is what we do best - nothing."

"Wheels must turn steadily, but cannot turn untended."

"You can't make flivvers without steel—and you can't make tragedies without social instability."

"The perfect is the enemy of the good."

"The world outside is just another kind of ward."

"The Party is eternal. The Party is infallible. If you accept that, everything else follows."

"All moments, past, present and future, always have existed, always will exist."

"Everything is all right, and everybody has to do exactly so much as they have to do."

"What matters is not the thing itself but the meaning we give it."

"We are all instruments in a grander design."

"That's the thing that really gets me about people."

"The only thing worth dying for is music or poetry - and I'm not even sure about them."

"The Tralfamadorians say that every creature in the universe is a machine."

"Every moment, contains all moments"

"Stability and civilization are in the last analysis incompatible things"

"We prefer to do things comfortably"

"Civilization has absolutely no need of nobility or heroism"

"The proles are human beings and for that reason, in a sense that [the Party members] are not, they are immortal."

"Perhaps a man really is only born at the time of his death; certainly we know nothing about the days before we were conscious."

"The proles have stayed human. That is their greatest weakness."

"I don't know why I am the way I am."