“We always find something, eh Didi, to let us think we exist?”
More from Samuel Beckett on Philosophy
“The only sin is the sin of being born”
“The creation of the world did not take place once and for all time, but takes place every day.”
“To every man his little cross. Till he dies. And is forgotten.”
“And on the threshold of being no more I succeed in being another.”
“...The less I think of it the more certain I am.”
“CLOV:Do you believe in the life to come?HAMM:Mine was always that.”
“Poets are the sense, philosophers the intelligence of humanity.”
“[Y]ou cannot mention everything in its proper place, you must choose, between the things not worth mentioning and those and those even less so.”
“The end is in the beginning and yet you go on.”
“Poets are the sense, philosophers the intelligence of humanity.”
Others on Philosophy
Nietzsche
22 quotes“Glance into the world just as though time were gone: and everything crooked will become straight to you.”
Christopher Hitchens
22 quotes“To the dumb question "Why me?" the cosmos barely bothers to return the reply: why not?”
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.”
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.”
Napoleon
14 quotes“Circumstances-what are circumstances? I make circumstances.”
Charlotte Brontë
13 quotes“Beauty is given to dolls, majesty to haughty vixens, but mind, feeling, passion and the crowning grace of fortitude are...”
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.”