“Someone who knows too much finds it hard not to lie.”
“The real discovery is the one which enables me to stop doing philosophy when I want to. - The one that gives philosophy peace, so that it is no longer tormented by questions which bring itself into question.”
“If people did not sometimes do silly things, nothing intelligent would ever get done”
“Death is not an event in life: we do not live to experience death. If we take eternity to mean not infinite temporal duration but timelessness, then eternal life belongs to those who live in the present.”
“Philosophy is like trying to open a safe with a combination lock: each little adjustment of the dials seems to achieve nothing, only when everything is in place does the door open.”
“Never stay up on the barren heights of cleverness, but come down into the green valleys of silliness.”
“I sit astride life like a bad rider on a horse. I only owe it to the horse's good nature that I am not thrown off at this very moment.”
“(on Sartre) Hell isn't other people. Hell is yourself.”
“At the end of reasons comes persuasion”
“A philosopher who is not taking part in discussions is like a boxer who never goes into the ring”
“A serious and good philosophical work could be written consisting entirely of jokes.”
ahhh, i havnt been here for sometime, definatly worth the wait to read some provocativly funny stuff
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