“Hope and reality lie in inverse proportions.”
More from Jodi Picoult on Philosophy
“The cost of growth is always a small act of violence.”
“If you didn't remember something happening, was it because it never had happened? Or because you wished it hadn't?”
“I like the word ‘evil’. Scramble it a little and you will get ‘vile’ and ‘live’. ‘Good’, on the other hand, is just a command to ‘go do’.”
“Something still exists as long as there's someone still around to remember it.”
“Seeing her sitting there unresponsive makes me realize that silence has a sound.”
“There are just as many stories to be told in the dark spots as there are in the bright ones.”
Others on Philosophy
Ludwig Wittgenstein
22 quotes“I don't know why we are here, but I'm pretty sure that it is not in order to enjoy ourselves.”
Christopher Hitchens
22 quotes“To the dumb question "Why me?" the cosmos barely bothers to return the reply: why not?”
Nietzsche
22 quotes“Glance into the world just as though time were gone: and everything crooked will become straight to you.”
Carl Jung
21 quotes“I simply believe that some part of the human Self or Soul is not subject to the laws of space and time.”
Immanuel Kant
20 quotes“An action, to have moral worth, must be done from duty.”
Heraclitus
19 quotes“Nothing endures but change.”
H. L. Mencken
17 quotes“A philosopher is a blind man in a dark room looking for a black cat that isn't there. A theologian is the man who finds...”
C.S. Lewis
15 quotes“For the Present is the point at which time touches eternity.”
Fyodor Dostoevsky
14 quotes“I am alone, I thought, and they are everybody.”
Samuel Beckett
14 quotes“We always find something, eh Didi, to let us think we exist?”
Napoleon
14 quotes“Circumstances-what are circumstances? I make circumstances.”
Paul Valéry
13 quotes“The history of thought may be summed up in these words: it is absurd by what it seeks and great by what it finds.”