Jack Kerouac Quotes

Foreknowledge is a wonderful thing.

When it’s time, it’s time … and it’s time.

Similarly, knowledge of the future was incompatible with free will. What made it possible for me to exercise freedom of choice also made it impossible for me to know the future. Conversely, now that I know the future, I would never act contrary to that future, including telling others what I know: those who know the future don't talk about it. Those who've read the Book of Ages never admit to it.

But is all this true?" said Brutha. Didactylos shrugged. "Could be. Could be. We are here and it is now. The way I see it is, after that, everything tends towards guesswork." "You mean you don't KNOW it's true?" said Brutha. "I THINK it might be," said Didactylos. "I could be wrong. Not being certain is what being a philosopher is all about.

Nothing is so irrevocable as mind.

You have to be careful what you think you know.

His words are the essence of truth...Jesus never uttered opinions. He never guessed; He knew, and He knows.

Thought enables us to see Fate coming.

The future holds no terrors for a person who knows how process inevitably unfolds. They are always right and with it each moment.

Anything you think you know about about God, that you can't find in the person of Jesus, you have reason to question.

I don't think anything might have been. What is, is.

I stood there and stared, into the sky and at the city around me. I stood, hands at my side, and I saw what had happened to me and who I was and the way things would always be for me. Truth. There was no more wishing, or wondering. I knew who I was, and what I would always do. I believed it, as my teeth touched and my eyes were overrun.

God alone knows absolute Truth.

The truth doesn't care what we think of it.

When we have arrived at the question, the answer is already near.

I only know that from wherever it is that we're going there can be no turning back

The ending is nearer than you think, and it is already written. All that we have left to choose is the correct moment to begin.

The only roads of enquiry there are to think of: one, that it is and that it is not possible for it not to be, this is the path of persuasion (for truth is its companion); the other, that it is not and that it must not be - this I say to you is a path wholly unknowable.

It is absurd to say in respect of any intelligence that it is infallible, but if you ask me what I believe, I believe the intelligence was correct, and I think in the end we will have an explanation.

NOW is a fact that cannot be dodged.

If faith is what you have to go on, if faith is the link between your beliefs and the world at large, your beliefs are very likely to be wrong. Beliefs can be right or wrong. If you believe you can fly, that belief is only true if indeed you can fly. Somebody who thinks he can fly, and is wrong about it, will eventually discover there's a problem with his view of the world.

When I came into your life your life was over. It had a beginning, a middle, and an end. This is the end. You can say that things could have turned out differently. That they could have been some other way. But what does that mean? They are not some other way. They are this way.

O! that a man might know The end of this day's business, ere it come; But it sufficeth that the day will end, And then the end is known.

One thing I do know, and that is, that neither hope, nor fear, belief, nor denial, can change the fact. It is as it is, and it will be as it must be.

Now that I am dead, I know everything.