Philosophy Quote by Edward Abbey — Inspiring Words on Life, Love & Wisdom

“Better a cruel truth than a comfortable delusion.”

“But it is a writer's duty to write and speak and record the truth, always the truth, no matter whom may be offended.”

“One mile farther and I come to a second grave beside the road, nameless like the other, marked only with the dull blue-black stones of the badlands. I do not pause this time. The more often you stop the more difficult it is to continue. Stop too long and they cover you with rocks.”

“If it's knowledge and wisdom you want, then seek out the company of those who do real work for an honest purpose.”

“Philosophy without action is the ruin of the soul. One brave deed is worth a hundred books, a thousand theories, a million words. Now as always we need heroes. And heroines! Down with the passive and the limp.”

“Anarchism is founded on the observation that since few men are wise enough to rule themselves, even fewer are wise enough to rule others.”

“Grown-ups never understand anything by themselves, and it is tiresome for children to be always and forever explaining things to them”

“I hope it is not necessary for me to stress the platonic nature of our relationship- not platonic in the purest sense, there was no philosophical discourse, but we certainly didn't fuck, which is usually what people mean by platonic; which I bet would really piss Plato off, that for all his thinking and chatting his name has become an adjective for describing sexless trysts.”

“Ignorance isn't a sword. It's a weight that drags a soul swirling to the bottom of the sea.”

“A smiling lie is a whirlwind, easy to enter, but hard to escape.”

“Time cannot put anything in your hands until you let go off the time.”

“Whether you take the doughnut hole as a blank space or as an entity unto itself is a purely metaphysical question and does not affect the taste of the doughnut one bit.”