Philosophy Quotes

"Philosophy asks the questions we would prefer to avoid; therein lies its necessity."

"What is Africa to me?"

"I'm really interested in the question of how we maintain our humanity in an increasingly dehumanizing world."

"Evil is a transgression of that which is natural to us."

"What is ghetto anyway but the distance between the world and myself?"

"The truth is, I have been trying to grasp the nature of a particular human being."

"Life is complicated and it's not meant to be understood as a simple narrative."

"Narrative is the way we make sense of our chaotic experiences."

"What you do to yourself is what you do to the world."

"To be critical is to be alive; to cease questioning is to cease being human."

"Nothing that God ever made is the same thing to more than one person."

"Philosophy is the love of wisdom."

"Man's greatest tragedy is his capacity to become numb to suffering."

"Every man contains multitudes that society tries to suppress."

"We are shaped by our choices as much as by our circumstances."

"Alienation is the modern disease that no medicine can cure."

"The cost of conformity is the death of the self."

"To live authentically is to live against the current."

"We are all complicit in the systems we inherit."

"The search for meaning is what makes us fundamentally human."

"The philosopher and the artist ask similar questions about what it means to be human."

"I am here and it is now. Further than that, all knowledge is maybe."

"Each of us must come to his own terms with life."

"I believe that we are all naturally creative and that everyone is capable of being an artist of some sort."

"There is really nothing more to say—except why. But since why is difficult to handle, one must take refuge in how."

"The map is not the territory; the word is not the thing."

"I believe in the inherent dignity of every human being."

"Life without purpose is life without meaning."

"The human soul is deeper than any philosophy can reach."

"To understand poverty, one must understand its architecture."