Philosophy Quotes
Questions about meaning, existence, and truth from thinkers who spent their lives searching for answers.
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"That's just the way things go."Huckleberry Finn
"Being alive is the most important work you can do."Shug Avery
"Hear me, he said. There is no such thing as accidents"Judge Holden
"Children of a higher order"Judge Holden
"All order is derived from the heavens"Judge Holden
"The world in which I find myself is without rhyme or reason, a senseless place."The Invisible Man (Narrator)
"Identity is something yet to be achieved."The Invisible Man (Narrator)
"The ground beneath our feet is not as solid as we believe."The Invisible Man (Narrator)
"I am both observer and participant in this world."The Invisible Man (Narrator)
"Being invisible provides a sort of spiritual immunity, a feeling of not existing."The Invisible Man (Narrator)
"I learned that one's philosophy is not best expressed in words; it is expressed in the choices one makes."The Invisible Man (Narrator)
"Humanity is a passing phase."The Commander
"People dont like to be read to. They like to talk."Judge Holden
"I have not come among you to tell you anything of value."Judge Holden
"What is life but a succession of moments, and what is memory but a faulty record thereof?"Judge Holden
"Humanity is not interested in comfort."The Invisible Man (Narrator)
"I think in circles."The Invisible Man (Narrator)
"The thing is, what happens if you're someone else's dream?"Tommy
"You are a thing of this world only but you give no evidence that you have a thing in you."Judge Holden
"In life there is no contingency. There is only the structure of the world."Judge Holden
"Everything in the universe is traveling in some direction."Judge Holden
"The world in which I lived was without substance, a dream."The Invisible Man (Narrator)
"Perhaps that is our greatest tragedy."The Invisible Man (Narrator)
"My invisibility, understand, means the outer world takes no cognizance of it."The Invisible Man (Narrator)
"I was born in the darkness of the womb of the world."The Invisible Man (Narrator)
"The reality of experience is not important."Rinehart
"The pattern of social organization is chaos."The Invisible Man (Narrator)
"The eyes of others are upon me."The Invisible Man (Narrator)
"I don't think humans are aware of all the time."Tommy
"Nobody can tell what you are going to do."Huckleberry Finn