Philosophy Quotes

It would have been so pointless to kill himself that, even if he had wanted to, the pointlessness would have made him unable.

To argue with a man who has renounced the use and authority of reason, and whose philosophy consists in holding humanity in contempt, is like administering medicine to the dead, or endeavoring to convert an atheist by scripture.

The fundamental problem of political philosophy is still precisely the one that Spinoza saw so clearly (and that Wilhelm Reich rediscovered): Why do men fight for their servitude as stubbornly as though it were their salvation?

The bird fights its way out of the egg. The egg is the world. Who would be born must first destroy a world. The bird flies to God. The God’s name is Abraxas.

So many holes, but piece by piece we become whole.

Life itself was only futility, vain words, a squabble of cap and bells.

If I gained one thing from philosophy is that at the very least, I am well prepared to confront any change in fortune.

In time there is no present, In eternity no future, In eternity no past.

This tremendous world I have inside of me. How to free myself, and this world, without tearing myself to pieces. And rather tear myself to a thousand pieces than be buried with this world within me.

We shape clay into a pot, but it is the emptiness inside that holds whatever we want.