Philosophy Quotes

"Shame is a very specific feeling: the feeling that one is justly humiliated."

"Treachery is a matter of perspective."

"Not all men are meant to be happy"

"Humans are not insects. We're not going to learn to live like them."

"They were not human."

"Time is an illusion. Lunchtime doubly so."

"Isn't it enough to see that a garden is beautiful without having to believe there are fairies at the bottom of it too?"

"Deep in the human unconscious is a pervasive need for a logical universe that makes sense."

"The greatest and most important problems of life are all fundamentally insoluble."

"Destiny is a function of perspective."

"Some men are just born broken"

"We never know which of our actions will prove important."

"The ocean does not think. It simply is."

"We are trapped in the prison of our own perceptions, unable to escape the bars we cannot see."

"We are not explorers of space. We are refugees from ourselves."

"Games are the only perfection."

"Humans can always be counted on to act in their own interest."

"There is no escape—we pay for the violence of our ancestors."

"What is human? What separates us from machines?"

"I am putting myself to the fullest possible use, which is all I think that any conscious entity can ever hope to do"

"To err is human"

"We don't want to conquer the cosmos, we simply want to extend the boundaries of Earth to include the cosmos."

"Consciousness is a burden we cannot put down."

"We are prisoners of our own emotions."

"We are all exiles from our own lives."

"Identity is a fiction we maintain through repetition."

"Winning and losing are abstractions. It's the game that matters."

"We are the same people. The difference is only in the rut"

"Do you know what we call our country, in the language of Kesh? We call it the ekumen"

"What is kept must be lost, what is kept must be seized"