Philosophy Quotes

"You say you want happiness; suppose you had a choice between happiness and truth."

"Immorality: I consider that of all the things forbidden by the moral law."

"The good that I do not do; the evil that I do not wish to do, this I do."

"Rebellion cannot exist without a strange love for the things one rebels against."

"There is but one truly serious philosophical problem, and that is suicide."

"I proclaim that I believe in nothing and that everything is absurd."

"I rebel; therefore, I exist."

"To be a philosopher is not merely to have subtle thoughts, but to love wisdom and to live accordingly."

"To abandon oneself to principles is really to abandon oneself."

"Every act of rebellion expresses a nostalgia for innocence and an appeal to the essence of being."

"In a universe without meaning, we create meaning through our choices."

"The absurd is the only new thing we have created this century."

"An intellectual is someone whose mind watches itself."

"Every authentic revolution is a spiritual revolution, not merely a political one."

"The struggle against inevitable fate is the only meaningful human activity."

"If triangles made a god, they would give him three sides."

"Human laws are the children of human nature."

"The first step toward philosophy is incredulity."

"Philosophy asks the right questions."

"We are our choices."

"Existence precedes essence."

"I am my choices."

"The essential thing is contingency."

"Consciousness is a being such that in its being, its being is in question insofar as this being implies a being other than itself."

"The individual is meaningful only to the degree that he transcends himself."

"Consciousness can never be anything but a particular modality of existence."

"No finite being can create the infinite."

"Man's responsibility is total."

"We are always thrown into the world."

"Being is only insofar as it is for consciousness."