Philosophy Quotes

"Everything depends on how you look at it."

"Do you know what the Tralfamadorians think of Earth?"

"The Tralfamadorians don't see time the way we do."

"I am an accident in an absurd universe."

"Everything is determined, from everlasting, and every human action happens only in seeming as if of its own accord"

"That terrible question: what am I living for?"

"It's very strange sometimes."

"Nobody is here because this is not a real place."

"The consequences of every act are included in the act itself."

"I don't exactly know what I mean by that, but I mean it."

"I don't know why, but it is."

"Civilization has absolutely nothing to do with niceness"

"I don't exactly know what I mean by that, but I mean it."

"That is a very Earthling thing to do."

"The most important thing I learned on Tralfamadore was that when a person dies he only appears to die."

"The primal and ultimate need of human beings is to feel that their existence is justified."

"Insanity is contagious."

"Destiny was a thing without meaning."

"Take it moment by moment, and you will find that we are all, as I've said before, bugs in amber"

"We are the prisoners of our own consciousness"

"Knowing is a way of being."

"Insanity is contagious."

"I am not interested in the slightest in those questions."

"Everything is predetermined by fate."

"That is the only bad aspect of the Universe that I have to report."

"There is no natural selection. There is only the selection of consciousness."

"Perhaps they even have a word for it in Newspeak: doublethink, thoughtcrime, crimestop—but it needs a name."

"We are the miracle of consciousness, we are the product of ages."

"We are all things to all men. Is that the answer?"

"The most important thing I have to tell you is that I have nothing important to tell you"