Philosophy Quotes
Questions about meaning, existence, and truth from thinkers who spent their lives searching for answers.
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"Man is the only creature that consumes without producing"Old Major
"We men are dominated by the things of the world."Jonathan Harker
"What is noble in man is his resistance to evil."Van Helsing
"Kings is mostly rapscallions."Huckleberry Finn
"It was enough to make a body ashamed of the human race."Huckleberry Finn
"What a cruel thing, to say that virtue is not its own reward."Esther Greenwood
"Yes, I understand it at last. This is the only stable thing in the Universe."Billy Pilgrim
"There is a method in madness."Van Helsing
"The battle between light and darkness is eternal."Van Helsing
"The beast is part of us."Simon
"Which is better—to have rules and agree, or to hunt and kill?"Jack Merridew
"The rules are civilisation."Ralph
"We are in a democratic society."Piggy
"The moment is structured that way."Tralfamadorian
"What is the purpose of life?"Billy Pilgrim
"There is a method in his madness, and the rudimentary idea in my mind explains a very great deal."Van Helsing
"We are all bound together by the great mystery of existence."Van Helsing
"The wages of sin are written in blood."Van Helsing
"The universe doesn't care. Time is an illusion."Tralfamadorian
"Everything is nothing, and nothing is everything."Billy Pilgrim
"That is a very Earthling thing to do."Tralfamadorian
"We men are more dominated by the unexpected than by the expected."Van Helsing
"We are all in some degree in the same boat with regards to evil and temptation."Van Helsing
"There is no such thing as finality in this world of ours."Van Helsing
"Man is the only creature that consumes without producing."Old Major
"Evil may walk the earth, but good shall prevail."Van Helsing
"We are all Lucifer"Eliot Rosewater
"It always does come down to the personal, doesn't it"Rahim Khan
"The pursuit of eternal life is the pursuit of eternal damnation."Count Dracula
"I have this little problem with the universe. It just does not seem fair."Billy Pilgrim