Philosophy Quotes

"Monsters cannot be announced. One cannot say: 'here are our monsters,' without immediately turning the monsters into pets" "Every other is completely other" "If men were angels, no government would be necessary." "Philosophy is common sense with big words." "Life is like a game of cards. The hand you are dealt is determinism; the way you play it is free will" "Time is not measured by the passing of years but by what one does, what one feels, and what one achieves" "The more we refine our understanding of God to make the concept plausible, the more it seems laughable" "It seems to me that if you or I must choose between two courses of thought or action, we should remember our dying and try so to live that our death brings no pleasure to the world." "A journey is like marriage. The certain way to be wrong is to think you control it." "There ain't no sin and there ain't no virtue. There's just stuff people do." "A society that will trade a little liberty for a little order will lose both, and deserve neither." "Time is the substance I am made of Time is a river that sweeps me along, but I am the river; it is a tiger that devours me, but I am the tiger; it is a fire that consumes me, but I am the fire" "We have confused the real and the extraordinary to the point where we no longer know which is which" "Inside us there is something that has no name, that something is what we are" "We never consider that the thing that is likely to cause us the most harm is the same thing that brings us the most happiness"