Philosophy Quotes

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

43879 quotes

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"Man serves the interests of no creature except himself."
Old Major
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"What is the purpose of living if not to strive after the ultimate meaning of it all?"
Pi Patel
B
"All moments, past, present and future, always have existed, always will exist."
Billy Pilgrim
O
"Man is the only creature that consumes without producing."
Old Major
B
"Windmill or no windmill, he said, life would go on as it had always gone on."
Benjamin
P
"I became a vegetarian not out of morality but sensibility."
Pi Patel
J
"Do you think the disappearance of the moon affects us more than the disappearance of the sun?"
Jo March
T
"Everything that happens is supposed to happen"
Tralfamadorian
B
"Everything is meaningless, and therefore nothing matters"
Billy Pilgrim
O
"Man is the only creature that consumes without producing"
Old Major
P
"I ain't ever done nothing but what I thought was right"
Pap Finn
P
"The world isn't just the way it is. It is how we understand it, no?"
Pi Patel
P
"What is the purpose of my existence if not to be a witness to creation?"
Pi Patel
E
"Everything is nothing, and nothing is everything."
Eliot Rosewater
B
"Why me? Why anything?"
Billy Pilgrim
B
"He had come to see that there is no free will."
Billy Pilgrim
O
"Man serves the interests of no creature except himself."
Old Major
O
"All men are enemies. All animals are comrades."
Old Major
H
"Human beings can be awful cruel to one another."
Huckleberry Finn
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"The world isn't just the way it is. It is the way it is because of the way the world became the way it was."
Pi Patel
P
"Every interpretation of an event is a version of the event."
Pi Patel
A
"I think we're all monsters, but the ones we find ways to live with are the ones we don't see every day"
Amir
J
"Nothing is written that cannot be unwritten"
Judge Holden
J
"Whatever exists without my knowledge exists without my consent."
Judge Holden
J
"The world is everything that is the case."
Judge Holden
A
"The world you see now, it's not the real world."
Anton Chigurh
P
"The world isn't just the way it is. It is how we understand it, no?"
Pi Patel
T
"I have come to the conclusion that Richard Parker is more of an idea."
The Narrator
P
"Every person is the centre of the universe."
Pi Patel
J
"Whatever exists without my knowledge exists without my consent."
Judge Holden