Philosophy Quotes

"Droll thing life is—that mysterious arrangement of merciless logic for a little purpose"

"He had come out equipped with moral ideas of some sort"

"Kurtz was hollow at the core"

"We Russians should never have taken up French culture"

"The human heart yearns for the absolute"

"He had come out equipped with moral ideas of some sort"

"And I have become a Tralfamadorian now."

"And then Billy realized something: that being alive was what the Tralfamadorians called 'being born to die.'"

"All Europe contributed to the making of Kurtz"

"The mind of man is capable of anything"

"The greatest thing one can know is oneself"

"When one knows that it is all meaningless, does one still yearn for sleep?"

"What are we? Humans? Or animals?"

"There is no why."

"That is a very Earthling thing to do."

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

"Everything is really very simple."

"Philosophy is the roasted apple."

"To speak plainly, he was mad."

"Man is the only real enemy we have."

"Maybe the beast is part of us?"

"People aren't supposed to be squeamish about finished events."

"I am malicious because I am miserable"

"I am not evil; I am miserable"

"I was benevolent and good; misery made me a fiend"

"The mind of man is capable of anything—because everything is in it, all the past as well as all the future."

"Droll thing life is—that mysterious arrangement of merciless logic for a futile purpose."

"The most of us would be lost in thought."

"The real problem is that we're all crazy now."

"We men are dominated by the things of the earth, blood and brute force."