“People are wonderful one at a time. Each one of them has an entire hologram of the universe somewhere within them.”
More from George Carlin on Philosophy
“Some people see the glass half full. Others see it half empty.I see a glass that's twice as big as it needs to be.”
“Some people see the cup as half empty. Some people see the cup as half full. I see the cup as too large.”
“If it's true that our species is alone in the universe, then I'd have to say the universe aimed rather low and settled for very little.”
“Fighting for peace is like screwing for virginity.”
“If you try to fail, and succeed, which have you done?”
“If it’s true that our species is alone in the universe, then I’d have to say the universe aimed rather low and settled for very little.”
“I think I am, therefore, I am... I think.”
“I would never want to be a member of a group whose symbol was a man nailed to two pieces of wood.”
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...”
Samuel Beckett
14 quotes“The end is in the beginning and yet you go on.”
Napoleon
14 quotes“Nothing is more difficult, and therefore more precious, than to be able to decide.”
Isaac Asimov
13 quotes“Society is much more easily soothed than one's own conscience.”