Philosophy Quote by Neal Stephenson — Inspiring Words on Life, Love & Wisdom

“Until a man is twenty-five, he still thinks, every so often, that under the right circumstances he could be the baddest motherfucker in the world. If I moved to a martial-arts monastery in China and studied real hard for ten years. If my family was wiped out by Colombian drug dealers and I swore myself to revenge. If I got a fatal disease, had one year to live, and devoted it to wiping out street crime. If I just dropped out and devoted my life to being bad.”

“The living stayed home, haunting the world of the dead like ghosts.”

“A few dud universes can really clutter up your basement.”

“Supposing that originally there was nothing but one creator, how could ordinary binary sexual relations come into being?”

“I dislike Nietzsche because he likes the contemplation of pain, because he erects conceit into a duty, because the men whom he most admires are conquerors, whose glory is cleverness in causing men to die.”

“How could someone possibly be that beautiful? She wondered for the hundred thousandth time. What higher power orchestrated such a perfect union of genes? Who decided that one single solitary soul deserved skin like that? It was so fundamentally unfair.(Chasing Harry Winston)”

“Water is not just something we consume.”

“Is it possible for a man to move the earth? Yes; but he must first find out another earth to stand upon.”

“For Marx, the only thing that motivates humans is money. For Freud, it’s libido. And for Schopenhauer, it is the blind metaphysical will. All are horribly wrong. More than anything, man seeks meaning in his life. And in that meaning, he seeks superiority over others.”

“Which came first, the mind or the idea of the mind? Have you never wondered? They arrived together. The mind is an idea.”