Theodore Dreiser Quotes

Anything goes and nothing matters.

My personal philosophy is, you can be sure of nothing.

Do what you will, this world's a fiction and is made up of contradiction.

There is only one thing about which I am certain, and that is that there is very little about which one can be certain.

Nothing is absolute any longer. There is a choice of beliefs and a choice of truths to go with them. If you choose not to choose then there is no truth at all. There are only points of view.

Where any answer is possible, all answers are meaningless.

Maybe I don't believe things myself, as well. Truth is such a transient thing.

Agnosticism has nothing to impart. Its sermons are the exhortations of one who convinces you he stands on nothing and urges you to stand there too.

Nothing is true, everything is permitted.

I believe it is impossible to be sure of anything.

There is no consensus, there is no homogeneity, there is no truth.

I'm not such a big fan of having a linear answer to things.

What is truth? said jesting Pilate; and would not stay for an answer.

I'm a card-carrying existentialist.

It is no good any longer having any opinion upon anything.

Whatever is not forbidden is permitted.

There are no indisputable truths.

If we believe in nothing, if nothing has any meaning and if we can affirm no values whatsoever, then everything is possible and nothing has any importance.

No," said the priest, "you don't need to accept everything as true, you only have to accept it as necessary." "Depressing view," said K. "The lie made into the rule of the world.

Everything is true, and nothing is true!

It is clear, then, that the idea of a fixed method, or of a fixed theory of rationality, rests on too naive a view of man and his social surroundings. To those who look at the rich material provided by history, and who are not intent on impoverishing it in order to please their lower instincts, their craving for intellectual security in the form of clarity, precision, "objectivity," "truth," it will become clear that there is only one principle that can be defended under all circumstances and in all stages of human development. It is the principle: anything goes.

As does every young man studying philosophy, I naturally asked myself questions about the truth of all this, and about the meaning of freedom, predestination, and liberty of choice and so on. But to have asked questions of yourself about it, I think is not too important. Let's say - I remain - I remained a believer.

Nothing is important, so people, realising that, should get on with their lives, go mad, take their clothes off, jump in the canal, jump into one of those supermarket trolleys, race around the supermarket and steal Mars bars and kiss kittens.

Nothing can save us from a perpetual headlong fall into a bottomless abyss but a solid footing of dogma; and we no sooner agree to that than we find that the only trustworthy dogma is that there is no dogma.