Dominic Monaghan Quotes

I really believe that 'Saw' makes us stop and think and question our motives and what we're doing here on Earth.

If I had to summarize, most broadly, my concerns as a writer, I'd say the question 'How then must we live?' is at the heart of it, for me.

Why are we here? Where do we come from? Traditionally, these are questions for philosophy, but philosophy is dead.

I can get very philosophical and ask the questions Keats was asking as a young guy. What are we here for? What's a soul? What's it all about? What is thinking about, imagination?

Without philosophy man cannot know what he makes; without religion he cannot know why.

To be, or not to be, that is the question.

Man - a being in search of meaning.

I would argue that religion comes from a desire to get to the questions of, 'Where do we come from?' and 'How shall we live?' And I would say I don't need religion to answer those questions.

There's a reason evolution is a hot-button issue. It's not just a matter of science, either. It's a matter of the big questions in life - why are we here, what is truth, where is our moral basis?

There is but one truly serious philosophical problem and that is suicide.

Ten out of ten people die. You start thinking about that and it really makes you start to ask the big questions: Where did I come from? Where am I going when I die? What happens when we step out of here? What's out there?

'Why are we here?' 'What is our purpose? 'Is there an afterlife?' 'Is there a God?' 'Is it all about science?' Those are big questions, and usually, TV is a little scared to go there.

I don't really believe in evil at all.

We must believe in free will, we have no choice.

The greatest writers of this age... are aware of the mystery of our existence.

Philosophically I am, or at least have been, a follower of Sartre. I am very interested in the choices we make, or don't make, in life-defining matters. That moment of 'angst' and its consequences can be such a cruel thing.

Ethical and questions of philosophy interest me a great deal.

I was obsessed with religious questions, the basics: Why are we here? Why is the world so beautiful?

Judging whether life is or is not worth living amounts to answering the fundamental question of philosophy.

The whole of science, and one is tempted to think the whole of the life of any thinking man, is trying to come to terms with the relationship between yourself and the natural world. Why are you here, and how do you fit in, and what's it all about.

Well, I don't like to get involved in these philosophical issues very much.

Life is essentially a question of values.

Philosophy, most broadly viewed, is the critical survey of existence from the standpoint of value.

I hate to think life is just facts and laws.

First, philosophy concerns itself with all kinds of issues that don't get much airtime in day-to-day life. What's the nature of reality? Can we ever truly know anything, and if so, how? What does it mean to be a moral agent? And while we're at it, is there any such thing as agency anyway?