Quotes About Philosophy

There is no doubt, Daniel says. You really are you. Yes, Hannah says. I really am me. And you really are you. But if we follow Einstein's thinking and add together you plus me plus time plus space. What does that all make? Then she waits, like she always did, for Daniel finally to catch her up. What? What does it all make? Daniel says. It makes you and I more than just you or I, Hannah says. It makes us us.

Regrets when you're dead? A past when you're dead? Is there never any escaping the junkshop of the self?

Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy like art... It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things that give values to survival.

I don't want to be pinned down to any position. My position is the lack of a position, but of course you can't even talk about it; the minute you talk you spoil the whole game-Marcel Duchamp

I remembered how de Man had said to us in class, 'don't confuse any of this literary theory with your lives'—how we hadn't believed him, how we had wanted our criticism to tell us how to think and how to speak and how to live. De Man made literature matter more than anything in the world and then said it was only literature.

Isn't it funny how we all die at the same time? Always at the end of our lives. Why worry?

I'll never know how to live, will you?

Which one of us was more? He was always more.

I don't know what's the point of it, being

Convincing red-haired her to stay with someone -his son- who has another wife too, it's the father, who can convince anyone of anything: look at them convincing you still philosophy, science, literature- everyone's convictions come from them; in consequence a harping feminism... and this is my old hat. But it's only a few years old their old hat is thousands.

Why am I alive?

I don't listen when someone says god. I don't want to talk about god.

Death is beautiful, the way you are . . . If it's so beautiful why must I live now, live first?

You must know that you're always dead . . .

I don't know why it was a tragedy, the world.

you kill me, but here I'll be, dis- passionate, outside time.

I have no interest in being myself, I just am.

Is there always a further horror?

Onde Júpiter está, há interesse pela excelência e pela abordagem 'clássica' ou universal da vida.

and what precisely is this shining

Food simply isn't important to me.

I don't call myself a Buddhist. I'm a free spirit. I believe I'm here on earth to admire and enjoy it that's my religion.

Those who know how one should die knew how one should live.

Dus jij kunt me de essentie van het leven uitleggen? Daar krijgen we volgend semester examen over, geloof ik. - Claire