Philosophy Quotes

"We are all complicit in our own suffering."

"It is easy enough to see that if one is surrounded by darkness, one becomes dark."

"The Good is something under construction."

"One of the effects of modern liberal Protestantism has been gradually to turn religious thinking into ethical thinking."

"Reality does not constitute truth; it merely offers the raw material for truth."

"In modern times we have invented the useful terminology of identifying ourselves by our feelings."

"I doubt if the texture of Southern life is any more grotesque than that of the rest of the nation."

"The proper study of mankind is not theology but human beings as they are."

"Tennis is just physical chess played at high speed."

"We're all just trying to find meaning in a meaningless universe."

"We confuse the map with the territory, the symbol with the real thing."

"The pursuit of meaning is what differentiates humans from machines."

"The real enemy is not out there; it's the part of ourselves we refuse to acknowledge."

"Seriousness is actually the ability to recognize the absurdity of existence."

"Suffering is the price of consciousness, and consciousness is the price of being human."

"What do you do when you have a culture that doesn't really believe in itself anymore?"

"To be without a philosophy is to be adrift in a meaningless universe."

"The human heart contains more contradictions than any logic can resolve."

"I'm a very peculiar person."

"It's not about you. It's about everybody."

"I'm quite open-minded about it."

"It's all quite tragic, really."

"The absence of alternatives clears the mind marvelously."

"Philosophy is thinking about thinking."

"Absurdity is just reality without the comforting explanations."

"The only consistent thing about human nature is its inconsistency."

"Philosophy begins with doubt and ends with more questions."

"We are not in search of perfection, we are in search of meaning."

"What we call normal is often just the pathological that we have grown accustomed to."

"The self is a fiction we create to survive."