Quote

According to Plato, we don't learn anything. Our soul has lived so many lives that we know everything. Teachers and education can only remind us of what we already know.

Chuck Palahniuk

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Chuck Palahniuk
Age: 62
Born: 1962
Born: February 21
Essayist
Journalist
Novelist
Science Fiction Writer
Screenwriter
Writer
Pasco
Washington
Charles Michael Chuck Palahniuk
Lives
Remind
Anything
Teachers
Soul
According
Everything
Lived
Many
Already
Teacher
Education
Learn
Plato

More quotes by Chuck Palahniuk

Image
How I feel is cheap and used, dirty and humiliated. Dirty and tricked and thrown away.
Chuck Palahniuk
Image
Where we're standing right now, in the ruins in the dark, what we build could be anything.
Chuck Palahniuk
Image
As the stupidest person in the room, I always had the most to gain.
Chuck Palahniuk
Image
A minute of perfection was worth the effort. A moment was the most you could ever expect from perfection.
Chuck Palahniuk
Image
You always kill the one you love.
Chuck Palahniuk
Image
We all want to explain ourselves. Nobody wants to be forgotten.
Chuck Palahniuk
Image
I would pay snakes to bite her.
Chuck Palahniuk
Image
The whole world is a disaster waiting to happen.
Chuck Palahniuk
Image
In truth, the degree of anyone's success depends on how often they can say the word yes and hear the word no.
Chuck Palahniuk
Image
I just want one person I can rescue and I want one person who needs me. Who can't live without me. I want to be a hero, but not just one time.
Chuck Palahniuk
Image
History is filled with brilliant people who wanted to fix things and just made them worse.
Chuck Palahniuk
Image
There are a lot of things we don't want to know about the people we love.
Chuck Palahniuk
Image
The most boring scenes are the scenes where a character is alone.
Chuck Palahniuk
Image
I'm not sure what we're running from. Nobody. Or the future. Fate. Growing up. Getting old. Picking up the pieces. As if running we won't have to get on with our lives.
Chuck Palahniuk
Image
You have a choice. Live or die. Every breath is a choice. Every minute is a choice. To be or not to be.
Chuck Palahniuk
Image
We can spend our lives letting the world tell us who we are…Or we can decide for ourselves.
Chuck Palahniuk
Image
It's all mirror, mirror on the wall because beauty is power the same way money is power the same way a gun is power.
Chuck Palahniuk
Image
You could stab a knife right through my heart and you'd be too late.
Chuck Palahniuk
Image
Or maybe...just maybe this whole process is our training wheels towards something bigger. If we can reflect and know our lives, we might stay awake and shape our futures.
Chuck Palahniuk
Image
The body ages. grows. passes through near-lunatic phases of reproductive frenzy, but you are born and die essentially the same person. That... that is proof of your deathless soul.
Chuck Palahniuk