Philosophy Quotes

"A life without meaning is not a life at all."

"It was as if God had decided to put to the test every capacity for surprise and was keeping the inhabitants of Macondo in a permanent alternation between doubt and revelation."

"You are human, Liesel."

"The world cannot be otherwise than it is."

"I'm constantly overestimating and underestimating the human race."

"It was as though God had decided to put all of his irony to the test"

"The only real thing in the world is nostalgia"

"He understood finally that he could not escape his own nature"

"Each generation believes it will escape the fate of the previous one"

"Whatever exists without my knowledge exists without my consent."

"You've no idea how strange other men are."

"There is no murder. There is only the taking of life."

"Fire is the ultimate truth."

"The consequence of this is that I'm always finding humans at their best and worst. I see their ugly and their beauty, and I wonder how the same thing can be both."

"Fate and luck were dancing partners, and no one could predict their next move."

"A person's greatest enemy is often themselves, not their circumstances."

"He understood then that he had spent his entire life seeking something he would never find."

"He built his house with stone, hoping to escape the impermanence of the world."

"He chose silence as his language, speaking volumes with his absence of words."

"The mirrors reflected not what was, but what had been and what could never be again."

"Whatever exists without my knowledge exists without my consent."

"What is life without the prospect of death?"

"What is the nature of this thing that would persist in spite of all?"

"In the end all things tend toward chaos."

"The world is certainly full of defects, which in my humble opinion were all the result of impossible collisions between our chimera and events."

"The consequence of this is that I'm always finding humans at their best and worst."

"Mortals understand something we do not"

"He learned that everything was predetermined and that our actions were determined by an invisible will"

"Men are made of dust and the dust will have no truck with the reconstruct of that dust to any end of man's choosing."

"In the last reckoning every man is his own god."