Quotes About Philosophy

But regardless of the direction you move, the central problem is still there: Why do it? What's the best reason for exploding the parameters of reality? With the possible exception of eating a dinosaur, I don't think there is one.

It was a version of nothing so close to something it accidentally became everything.

Something that's only metaphorically alive can never be literally dead.

It's someone who views life as a game where the rules are poorly written and designed for abuse.

I sometimes think I should have titled this book 'Aristotle: The Genius Who Was Wrong About Fucking Everything'.

The drive to Santa Fe on I-25 is midly zen. There are public road signs that say Gusty Winds May Exist. This seems more like lazy philosophy than travel advice.

If a tree falls in the forest and nobody is there to hear it, doesn't it just lie there and rot?

Marla's philosophy of life, she told me, is that she can die at any moment. The tragedy of her life is that she doesn't.

Give me rampant intellectualism as a coping mechanism.

Which is worse: Hell or nothing?

Doesn't reincarnation strike you as just another form of procrastination?

According to Plato, we don't learn anything. Our soul has lived so many lives that we know everything. Teachers and education can only remind us of what we already know.

Maybe humans are just the pet alligators that God flushed down the toilet.

Religions exist because people would rather have a wrong answer than no answer at all.

this is the upside of already being eternally damned

This is just what human beings do-turn objects into people, people into objects. Back and forth.

Rant said that view of time was set up so folks won't live forever. It's the planned obsolescence we've all agreed to...'Nothing says you have to swallow this,' Rant told me. 'You can always just die.

Sahip olduÄŸun her ÅŸey, bir gün kaybedeceÄŸin ÅŸeylerden sadece bir tanesidir.

The answer is there is no answer

Marla doesn't have testicular cancer. Marla doesn't have tuberculosis. She isn't dying. Okay in that brain brain-food philosophy way, we're all dying, but Marla isn't dying the way Chloe was dying.

Marla's philosophy of life, she told me, is that she can die at any moment. The tragedy of her life is that she doesn't.

Fare schifo è il nuovo essere splendidi

What she's learned is what she always learns. Plato was right. We're all of us immortal. We couldn't die if we wanted to. Every day of her life, every minute of her life, if she could just remember that.

What you have to know is that Marla is still alive. Marla's philosophy of life, she told me, is that she can die at any moment. The tragedy of her life is that she doesn't.