

“We all grow into our coffins, Danny. And I saw myself growing into mine.”
― Elmet
― Elmet

“It’s like us humans sending rockets up to the moon only to spend the next fifty years gazing at the pictures of our own earth.”
― Elmet
― Elmet

“I think I know something, but how can I know that I know what I know?”
― At the Existentialist Café
― At the Existentialist Café

“Philosophers all through history have wasted their time on secondary questions, he said, while forgetting to ask the one that matters most, the question of Being. What is it for a thing to be? What does it mean to say that you yourself are?”
― At the Existentialist Café
― At the Existentialist Café

“O sancta simplicitiatas! In what strange simplification and falsification man lives! One can never cease wondering when once one has got eyes for beholding this marvel. How we have made everything around us clear and free and easy and simple! How we have been able to give our senses a passport to everything superficial, our thoughts a godlike desire for wanton pranks and wrong inferences! —how from the beginning, we have contrived to retain our ignorance in order to enjoy an almost inconceivable freedom, thoughtlessness, imprudence, heartiness, and gaiety— in order to enjoy life!”
― Beyond Good and Evil
― Beyond Good and Evil
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