Philosophy Quotes

"Philosophy teaches us to question our assumptions."

"The Tralfamadorian sees all time as you might see a stretch of the Rocky Mountains."

"The battle between good and evil is eternal."

"The mind of man is capable of anything."

"An appeal to every man sits in the facts of human existence."

"In the depths, you discover your true nature."

"Maybe the beast is something of our own."

"Every day, once a day, we tell the Earthlings that they can improve their lives by following the guidelines set down by Jesus Christ."

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

"I am malicious because I am miserable."

"There are darknesses in life and there are lights"

"The mind of man is capable of anything"

"Droll thing life is—that mysterious arrangement of merciless logic"

"A voice! A voice! He was very little more than a voice"

"Everything here is incomprehensible"

"The primary instinct in man is to climb or descend"

"The mind of man is capable of anything"

"Philosophy cannot explain the supernatural."

"I am not evil; I am miserable."

"Maybe the beast is something of its own."

"All Europe contributed to the making of Kurtz"

"The mystery of a passion is greater than the mystery of death"

"He was an emissary of pity, and science, and progress, and what not else"

"The Tralfamadorians can look at all the different moments just the way we can look at a stretch of the Rocky Mountains."

"Every moment, past, present, and future, always has existed, always will exist."

"I am malicious because I am miserable"

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

"It's not the act that matters; it's the intention."

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

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