Pataphysics Quotes & Sayings

Glory is a scandal. Let me state once & for all: I do not wish to be civilized. — Arthur Cravan

It is extremely difficult to stay alert & attentive instead of getting hypnotized by the constant monolog inside your head. — David Foster Wallace

The most dangerous thing about an academic education is that it enables my tendency to over-intellectualize stuff, to get lost in abstract thinking instead of simply paying attention to what's going on in front of me. — David Foster Wallace

Pataphysics will be, above all, the science of the particular, despite the common opinion that the only science is that of the general. Pataphysics will examine the laws governing exceptions, and will explain the universe supplementary to this one; or, less ambitiously, will describe a universe which can be - and perhaps should be - envisaged in the place of the traditional one. — Alfred Jarry

Glory is a scandal. Let me state once & for all: I do not wish to be civilized. — Arthur Cravan

For us life is a fact, no less, and, above all, no more. — Julien Torma

While I do not believe in imperative goals or ends, I do believe in a returning endgame. When you reach one end, it should be for conception. When you reach the next end, it should be for immortality. One should reach the state of existing and non-existing at the same time. One's goals and endgame should be metaphysical and pataphysical, stepping over the edge of logic and reason. If you are not reaching to step above ... then you belong at the bottom. — Lionel Suggs