Philosophy Quotes

"You can never convince a monkey to give you a banana by promising him limitless bananas after death in monkey heaven" "It is not possible for any thinking person to live in such a society as our own without wanting to change it" "Show me a sane man and I will cure him for you" "The paradox is one of our most valuable spiritual possessions" "I shall not commit the fashionable stupidity of regarding everything I cannot explain as a fraud" "Life is a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing" "Beauty is no quality in things themselves. It exists merely in the mind which contemplates them" "The only thing we can depend on from life is that it will surprise us." "The absurd is the fundamental idea and the first truth." "Reality is always neutral, it just is." "You can't have everything. Where would you put it?" "The universe is without design and without purpose." "A deeper understanding of consciousness demands a historical and evolutionary context." "Consciousness is an effect not a cause." "The only meaning of life is the meaning we create." "It is the clash of judgments that produces the spark of truth." "Free will is like love: it is real, it matters, it can be misunderstood." "The truth, however ugly in itself, is always curious and beautiful to seekers after it." "Words, mademoiselle, are only the outer clothing of ideas." "I'm against religion because it teaches us to be satisfied with not understanding the world"