Quotes / The Philosopher

"I hold a scrap of paper in the darkness and light it. I watch it burn bright and curl, disappearing into nothingness, and the heat burns my fingers. Where has it gone? What has it become? I cannot shake the feeling that I have witnessed a form of transcendence."

— Commissioner Pravin Lal, Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri

"Why did the universe come to be in a state suitable for human habitation? A minor change in the gravitational constant would mean a completely different universe from the one we're in. Other sets of rules such as Planck's Constant or the mass ratio of atomic molecules seem to be designed specifically so that humans can live in this universe. Don't you find this incredible?"

— Itsuki Koizumi, The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya

"Up till now, at least, there isn't much metaphysics in Morelli, except that you, Horacio Curiacio, are capable of finding metaphysics in a can of tomatoes."

— Etienne, Hopscotch

Count Olaf: When I point to you, say the first thing that pops into your head.
Powder-Faced Woman: I'm in love with you!
Olaf: Not bad.
Other Woman: I'm in love with you more!
Olaf: Now, that's catchy.
Bald Man: I'm in love with your girlfriend.
Olaf: Eww.
Henchperson: Is a personal philosophy of moral relativism the only way to survive an ethically complex world, or is it an excuse we use to justify doing bad things?

— A Series of Unfortunate Events

"He had squatted for hours in the courtyards of the philosophers, listening to the arguments of theologians and teachers, and come away in a haze of bewilderment, sure of only one thing, and that, that they were all touched in the head."

— Robert E. Howard, "The Tower of the Elephant"

Xyler: Are we real? Is this reality? Jean-Paul Sartre postulated that every existing thing is born without reason, prolongs itself out of weakness, and dies by chance.
Craz: Totally righteous, bro!
Xyler: I know!

— Gravity Falls, "Weirdmageddon Part 2: Escape From Reality"

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