356 quotes found
“I can always choose, but I ought to know that if I do not choose, I am still choosing.”
“[E]very man ought to say to himself, "Am I really the kind of man who has the right to act in such a way that humanity might guide itself by my actions?”
“We are merely pieces of a grander design, even more insignificant than I imagined. When the earth ceases to be, all those stars will shine on. Our deaths will mean nothing to them.”
“In the real journey of life, it is not what you do; it is what you don't do that matters the most.”
“Well, that's not true. I need to work for a living.No, that's not true. You think you need to work like this because that's what you've been told. That is merely an idea put into your head. In actu...”
“The thing that attracted me about philosophy was that it went straight to essentials. I had never liked fiddling detail; I perceived the general significance of things rather than their singulariti...”
“Anita felt like she finally understood why love was symbolized by the grotesque pumping organ, always threatening to clog, or break, or attack. Because the heart was the body's engine, and love was...”
“Even at a time like this, the street is bright enough and filled with people coming and goingpeople with places to go and people with no place to go; people with a purpose and people with no purpos...”
“That stage in life when older people assume that just because you've graduated college you know who you are, or what you're doing, and in fact most people don't.”
“We can't even resist making antimatter, so what makes you think we are going to leave cloning technology untapped? (Douglas Parsley)”
“our situation reminded me of a fable I had read somewhere. Chased by a tiger, a man slips and falls over the edge of a mountain. As he falls, he manages to grab a bush growing by the side of the mo...”
“He did not look up because he knew how senseless the landscape would appear. It takes energy to invest life with meaning, and at present this energy was lacking.”
“We are, for all our polish, of littlestature, and, as human lives,compared with authentic martyrs,of no account.”
“Pure logic is the impossibility by means of which science is maintained.”
“We shall have thousands of Shatovs to deal with”
“The sky both exists and doesnt exist. It has substance and at the same time doesnt. And we merely accept that vast expanse and drink it in.”
“There is no reasonable doubt that existentialism will soon become the predominant philosophical current among bourgeois intellectuals." (1949)”
“I really should have died then, Tsukuru often told himself. Then this world, the one in the here and now, wouldn't exist. It was a captivating, bewitching thought. The present world wouldn't exist,...”
“This existenitalist stuff sure is crap”
“The problem with happiness is that its a difficult thing to detect. Its discreet and serene by definition. Just when you think youve found it, its likely just a spark of euphoria, as quick and flee...”
