"A Confession" Quotes
A man's spiritual crisis leads him to question the meaning of life and his own existence.
philosophy | 108 pages | Published in NaN
Quotes
I felt that what I had been standing on had collapsed and that I had nothing left under my feet.
I had lived and gone on living, when what I had been living for had proved to be a cheat and a lie.
I felt that life was a great deception which it was not worth while to solve.
A man can live and be healthy without killing animals for food; therefore, if he eats meat, he participates in taking animal life merely for the sake of his appetite.
The more we live by our intellect, the less we understand the meaning of life.
The happiness of a man who does not know he is unhappy is false, and the joy of him who does not know he is joyless is not real joy.
The truth is that the state is a conspiracy designed not only to exploit, but above all to corrupt its citizens.
The law is an arrangement of society intended to keep this exploitation in force and to give it the sanction of the collective opinion of the public.
The truth will come to light; murder cannot be hid long.
If one is to understand the great mystery, one must study all its aspects, not just the dogmatic, narrow view of the church.
