Quotes About Philosophy

There are always reasons for murdering a man. But there is no justification for his existence.

He seemed so certain about everything, didn't he? And yet none of his certainties was worth one hair of a woman's head. He wasn't even sure he was alive, because he was living like a dead man.

I continue to believe that this world has no ultimate meaning. But I know that something in it has a meaning and that is man, because he is the only creature to insist on having one

This absurd, godless world is, then, peopled with men who think clearly and have ceased to hope. And I have not yet spoken of the most absurd character, who is the creator.

The future is the only transcendental value for men without God.

Death means nothing to men like me. It's the event that proves them right.

How had I not seen that there was nothing more important than an execution, and that when you come right down to it, it was the only thing a man could truly be interested in?

The absurd depends as much on man as on the world. For the moment, it is all that links them together.

What is essential in the life of a man of my kind is what he thinks and how he thinks, and not what he does or suffers.

After all, man is a complicated being, why should he be explainable by logic?

Say first, of god above or man below; what can we reason but from what we know.

Nor at all can tell Whether I mean this day to end myself, Or lend an ear to Plato where he says, That men like soldiers may not quit the post Allotted by the Gods.

Bacon, Locke, Descartes, Hume, and all the others knew they were giving rights to vulgarity. But in so doing in addition to caring for man's well-being they were providing rights for themselves.

Man is extraordinarily clever in preventing himself from being happy; it would seem that the less able he is to endure misfortune the more apt he is to attach himself to it.

Human beings have rights, because they are moral beings: the rights of all men grow out of their moral nature; and as all men have the same moral nature, they have the same rights.

Man is the nobler growth our realms supply, And souls are ripened in our northern sky.

I am...wholeheartedly a Galbraith man.

No truth is proved, no truth achieved, by argument, and the ready-made truths men offer you are mere conveniences or drugs to make you sleep.

The conviction that the world and man is something that had better not have been, is of a kind to fill us with indulgence towards one another.

The fact that a man has no claim on others ... does not preclude or prohibit good will among men and does not make it immoral to offer or to accept voluntary, non-sacrificial assistance.

A rational man knows-or makes it a point to discover-the source of his emotions, the basic premises from which they come.

Kant is the most evil man in mankind's history.

No concept man forms is valid unless he integrates it without contradiction into the sum of his knowledge.

The moral cannibalism of all hedonist and altruist doctrines lies in the premise that the happiness of one man necessitates the injury of another.