Philosophy Quotes

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

"Evil is inherent in the very fabric of the world."

"Each man carries with him his own darkness."

"We men are only drops in the ocean and individual existence means little in the universe."

"You have a self? He sounded surprised and contemptuous."

"I am malicious because I am miserable."

"I am not evil; I am miserable."

"What does it matter what form the tabernacle of my soul takes?"

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

"He says Earth is Hell. That is another idea I got from him."

"Everything that happens has happened before. Everything happens at the same time."

"The mind of man is capable of anything"

"The greatest good to the greatest number"

"Why me? Why anything?"

"That is my principal complaint about the Earthlings."

"We cannot choose but receive the things of the flesh."

"The beast is part of us."

"I am malicious because I am miserable."

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

"I have this disease late in life...I am only susceptible to those things that are out of proportion."

"That is my principal objection to life, I think: Nobody's here by accident."

"You're thinking too much, Ralph. You're getting Hamlet."

"I'm part of you? Close, Socrates?"

"I have for many years studied the desires and pursuits of mankind."

"The mind of man is a curious thing, easily deceived."

"We are all servants of forces greater than ourselves."

"We are not as other animals."

"Human beings can be awful cruel to one another"

"Maybe the beast is part of us"

"What does it mean to be sane?"