Philosophy Quotes

Questions about meaning, existence, and truth from thinkers who spent their lives searching for answers.

43879 quotes

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