7 William Saroyan Quotes on Philosophy

William Saroyan quotes on philosophy

79. I am deeply opposed to violence in all its forms, and yet I myself am violent in spirit, in my quarrel with the unbeatable: myself, my daemon, God, the human race, the world, time, pain, disorder, disgrace and death.

93. Each person belongs to the environment, in his own person, as himself.

105. I have read Schopenhauer at the age of twelve with no bewilderment and no contempt of his contempt for the world and its strange inhabitants, and no contempt for the strange inhabitant himself.

116. How did money ever happen? What's it mean? What's it for?

138. The order I found was the order of disorder.

146. The end of life evokes the errors of it, and a fellow wishes he had known better.

153. Three times in my life I have been captured: by the orphanage, by school, and by the Army. I was four years in the orphanage, seven or eight in school, and three in the Army. Each seemed forever, though. But I'm mistaken. The fact is I was captured only once, when I was born, only that capture is also setting free, which is what this is actually all about. The free prisoner.