“Isolation is a gift. Everything else is just a test of your endurance. You will be alone with the Gods. Your nights will flame with fire.”
More from Charles Bukowski on Philosophy
“there's no clarity.there was never meant to be clarity.”
“for meobedience to another is the decayof self”
“Why did I come here? I thought. Why is it always only a matter of choosing between something bad and something worse?”
“animals never worry about Heaven or Hell. neither do I. maybe that's why we get along”
“How are his poems?""He's not as good as he thinks he is, but then most of us feel that way.”
“there is enough treachery , hatred violence absurdity in the average human being to supply any given army on any given day”
“If I bet on humanity, I'd never cash a ticket.”
“Belane, are you nuts?"Who knows? Insanity is comparative. Who sets the norm?”
Others on Philosophy
Ludwig Wittgenstein
22 quotes“The logic of the world is prior to all truth and falsehood.”
Christopher Hitchens
22 quotes“How much vanity must be concealed – not too effectively at that – in order to pretend that one is the personal object of...”
Nietzsche
22 quotes“One does not hate as long as one has a low esteem of someone, but only when one esteems him as an equal or a superior.”
Carl Jung
21 quotes“The pendulum of the mind oscillates between sense and nonsense, not between right and wrong.”
Immanuel Kant
20 quotes“Morality is not the doctrine of how we may make ourselves happy, but how we may make ourselves worthy of happiness.”
Heraclitus
19 quotes“All things flow nothing abides.”
H. L. Mencken
17 quotes“We are here and it is now. Further than that, all human knowledge is moonshine.”
C.S. Lewis
15 quotes“[Consciousness] is either inexplicable illusion, or else revelation.”
Fyodor Dostoevsky
14 quotes“Consciousness is man's greatest misfortune, still I know that man loves it and will not exchange it for any satisfaction...”
Napoleon
14 quotes“Nothing is more difficult, and therefore more precious, than to be able to decide.”
Samuel Beckett
14 quotes“The end is in the beginning and yet you go on.”
Isaac Asimov
13 quotes“Society is much more easily soothed than one's own conscience.”