“I believe that we are arks of the covenant and our true nature is not rage or deceit or terror or logic or craft or even sorrow. It is longing.”
More from Cormac McCarthy on Philosophy
“Your heart's desire is to be told some mystery. The mystery is that there is no mystery.”
“How would you know if you were the last man on Earth? He said.I don't guess you would know it. You'd just be it.”
“Where men can't live gods fare no better.”
“War was always here. Before man was, war waited for him. The ultimate trade awaiting its ultimate practitioner.”
“If war is not holy man is nothing but antic clay.”
“There is no God and we are his prophets.”
“The freedom of birds is an insult to me.”
“Whatever in creation exists without my knowledge exists without my consent.”
“What you alter in the remembering has yet a reality, known or not.”
“Deep in each man is the knowledge that something knows of his existence. Something knows, and cannot be fled nor hid from.”
Others on Philosophy
Ludwig Wittgenstein
22 quotes“The logic of the world is prior to all truth and falsehood.”
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.”
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...”
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.”
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.”
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...”
Buddha
13 quotes“Doubt everything. Find your own light.”