“It is suicide to be abroad. But what it is to be at home, ... what it is to be at home? A lingering dissolution.”
More from Samuel Beckett on Philosophy
“We always find something, eh Didi, to let us think we exist?”
“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.”
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...”
Napoleon
14 quotes“Nothing is more difficult, and therefore more precious, than to be able to decide.”
Hermann Hesse
13 quotes“The middle class prefers comfort to pleasure convenience to liberty and a pleasant temperature to the deathly inner co...”
Isaac Asimov
13 quotes“Society is much more easily soothed than one's own conscience.”