“But of course, the universe does not conspire to put you in one place rather than another.”
More from John Green on Philosophy
“Once you think a thought, it is extremely difficult to unthink it. And I had thought the thought.”
“There is no shortage of fault to be found amidst our stars.”
“There is not shortage of fault to be found amidst our stars.”
“Some infinites are longer than other infinites”
“Things belong to the people that use them, not to the people who create them.”
“Some infinities are bigger than other infinities.”
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.”
Napoleon
14 quotes“Circumstances-what are circumstances? I make circumstances.”
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?”
Hermann Hesse
13 quotes“Once a man takes honesty as his ideal, he cannot confine himself to showing the pleasant and reasonable side of his natu...”