Philosophy Quotes

"The past, present, and future are all equally real"

"Tralfamadorians ignore earthlings"

"The concept of time interested Lee profoundly. He believed that the universe was not only queerer than supposed, but queerer than could be supposed."

"Everything we call real is made of things that cannot be regarded as real"

"A man must not concern himself with thoughts of results but only with the rightness of his action"

"I seen hundreds of guys"

"The only thing worse than being sad is being alive."

"We are the miracle of consciousness, but we are also the victims of consciousness."

"It all depends on what you mean by social to me."

"I think we are all Cain - we all have that capacity for darkness within us."

"The weight of choices made accumulates like snow on a mountain."

"We are the slaves of our passions."

"The most important thing I have learned is that human beings are nothing but machines."

"The brotherhood cannot be wiped out because it is not an organization in the ordinary sense. Nothing holds it together except an idea."

"The terrible thing about the Party is not that it is oppressive or brutal, as it is, but that it is utterly sane."

"The first thing an aggressive man must do is set up a straw man to attack."

"Evil is part of human nature."

"The most important thing I learned was that human beings are nothing but machines"

"I'm part of you?"

"Maybe the beast is part of us?"

"Man is the only creature that consumes without producing."

"All men are enemies. All animals are comrades."

"The mind of man is capable of anything."

"Civilization is but a thin veneer."

"I asked myself—what does it matter?"

"It is all a matter of perspective."

"Philosophy is the refuge of the uncertain"

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

"Humanity needs some things to struggle against."

"Maybe there is a beast. What I mean is, maybe it's always there."