Philosophy Quotes

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

"That is what I am, and that is all that I am."

"Robert, I'd like to welcome you into the Tralfamadorian philosophy."

"Who am I to judge myself?"

"Children aren't cruel. They're just people."

"The world is full of ghosts, and we are the ghosts"

"Windmill or no windmill, he said, life would go on as it had always gone on."

"That is a very Earthling question to ask."

"The world is full of ghosts, and we are the shadows that haunt it."

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

"Our struggle is not with him but with man."

"It is just an illusion here on Earth that one moment follows another one, one thing happens after another."

"You know what the problem with Earth is?"

"Nobility is the natural condition of mankind."

"Human nature is the same all over; people want to be amused."

"Some new phase of the riddle of life"

"These two frauds were just perfect examples of human nature."

"I truly think that the world is the dream of one great soul."

"Man serves the interests of no creature except himself."

"Human nature was something that must be eradicated."

"The Universe doesn't care."

"My existence is about storytelling, not facticity."

"I have seen enough of the world to understand that humanity is not worth much."

"Man is the only creature that consumes without producing"

"We are not defined by our circumstances, but by how we respond to them."

"I am a Tralfamadorian, seeing all time as you might see a stretch of the Rocky Mountains."

"I urge you to pay no attention to it."

"The universe is deterministic and complete."

"It is often said that the mind is a fortress. But that is wrong. The mind is a storm, a tempest, a roiling sea that crashes upon the shores of existence."

"Why me? That is a very Earthling question to ask, says the Tralfamadorian. Why you? Why us for that matter? Why anything?"