philosophy Quotes

Quite early on, and certainly since I started writing, I found that philosophical questions occupied me more than any other kind. I hadn't really thought of them as being philosophical questions, but one rapidly comes to an understanding that philosophy's only really about two questions: 'What is true?' and 'What is good?'

There's a lot to be said for misanthropy.

Our philosophy is that we care about people first.

To a philosopher like Nietzsche, the Jew is culpable not for rejecting Christianity but for inventing it.

What is a cynic? A man who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing.

She believed in nothing; only her skepticism kept her from being an atheist.

It is one of the superstitions of the human mind to have imagined that virginity could be a virtue.

The history of all previous societies has been the history of class struggles.

Illusion is the first of all pleasures.

Everything isn't political.