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Philosophical quotes offer condensed insights into humanity’s deepest questions. They invite reflection on how we think, live, and relate to the world around us. The following collection serves as a doorway to contemplation, curiosity, and quiet intellectual challenge.   ◀ Back
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Standing in the middle between the idea of an event and the actual event, a strange kind of physical reality just in the middle between possibility and reality.
- Heisenberg
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Topic: Philosophical
In the pragmatist, streetwise climate of advanced postmodern capitalism, with its scepticism of big pictures and grand narratives, its hard-nosed disenchantment with the metaphysical, 'life' is one among a whole series of discredited totalities. We are invited to think small rather than big – ironically, at just the point when some of those out to destroy Western civilization are doing exactly the opposite. In the conflict between Western capitalism and radical Islam, a paucity of belief squares up to an excess of it. The West finds itself faced with a full-blooded metaphysical onslaught at just the historical point that it has, so to speak, philosophically disarmed. As far as belief goes, postmodernism prefers to travel light: it has beliefs, to be sure, but it does not have faith.
- Terry Eagleton
The Meaning of Life
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Topic: Philosophical, Religion
He stole glances at the heathen faces of Bodien and Gaylord, the suffering, yet oddly consoled, eyes and mouth of Basellecci, noting the brave enthusiasm of men who had never dreamed of anything very definite, and it occurred to him through the reek of his person that there was only one hope for him, and for all people who had lost, through intelligence, the hope of immortality. "We must love and delight in each other and in ourselves!" he cried.
- Edward Lewis Wallant
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Topic: Philosophical, Religion
Nothing was ordinary, since nothing had ever happened to me.
- Jacqueline Harpman
I Who Have Never Known Men
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Topic: Philosophical
There is a common tendency to turn off one's imagination at certain points and refuse to contemplate the possibility of having to do certain things and cope with the attendant moral problems. The things simply get done by the social machine, and one can keep one's clear conscience and one's moral indignation unsullied.
- John Fraser
Violence in the Arts
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Topic: Philosophical
XXX
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No woman in maternity confinement can have stranger and more impatient wishes than I have.
Topic: Philosophical
All I'm trying to say is that if you're not willing to observe this, if you're just going to condemn it, you're never going to see it. It's there, whether you like it or not. This is stupid life-force we're dealing with here," he said. "Think how old it is, Jim. Think how huge it is. Understanding it doesn't make any difference.
- Jim Paul
Catapult: Harry and I Build a Siege Weapon
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Topic: Philosophical
I kind of love it. It's so macabre. The reason we haven't seen or heard from anything off-world is that reaching off-world status is a civilisational death knell. Life either gets stuck there or destroyed there. It still doesn't really explain anything though - we can't see anyone because it's impossible to see anyone. It's circular. It doesn't say why becoming space proficient dooms us.
- Martin MacInnes
In Ascension
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Topic: Philosophical
Man, consider first what the matter is (which you propose to do), then your own nature also, what it is able to bear. If you are a wrestler, look at your shoulders, your thighs, your loins: for different men are naturally formed for different things.
- Epictetus, Discourses
Discourses and Selected Writings of Epictetus
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Topic: Philosophical
If you know not how to die, never trouble yourself; Nature will in a moment fully and sufficiently instruct you; she will exactly do that business for you; take you no care for it.
- Michael de Montaigne
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Topic: Philosophical
You are the softness of the morning dew!
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Topic: Philosophical
Spinoza or Nietzsche are philosophers whose critical and destructive powers are without equal, but this power always springs from affirmation, from joy, from a cult of affirmation and joy, from the exigency of life against those who would mutilate and mortify life. For me, that is philosophy itself.
- Gilles Deleuze
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Philosophical
XXX
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Man is timid and apologetic; he is no longer upright; he dares not say "I think," "I am," but quotes some saint or safe.
Topic: Philosophical
Silence is nice to have if you wanted it, but maddening if you didn't.
- Daniel V Chappell
Topic: Philosophical
Whatever some people might say, it seems to me that a world in which I can fly, bend space and time, and meet with people who have been dead for years, deserves more consideration than it gets. If I weigh the waking world on one side of the scale and the dream world on the other, which one is more substantial? Doesn’t a world of endless possibilities seem more likely to contain the whole of our lives than the fraction of the world that we call real?
- Thomas Lloyd Qualls
Painted Oxen
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Topic: Philosophical
There's a kind of saying that you don't understand its meaning, 'I don't believe it. It's too crazy. I'm not going to accept it.'… You'll have to accept it. It's the way nature works. If you want to know how nature works, we looked at it, carefully. Looking at it, that's the way it looks. You don't like it? Go somewhere else, to another universe where the rules are simpler, philosophically more pleasing, more psychologically easy. I can't help it, okay? If I'm going to tell you honestly what the world looks like to the human beings who have struggled as hard as they can to understand it, I can only tell you what it looks like.
- Richard Feynman
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Topic: Philosophical
A crossroad is a holy place. There, the pilgrim has to make a decision. That is why the
gods usually sleep and eat at crossroads. Where roads cross, two great forces are concentrated -the
path that will be chosen, and the path to be ignored. Both are transformed into a single path, but only for
a short period of time. The pilgrim may rest, sleep a bit, and even consult with the gods that inhabit the
crossroad. But no one can remain there forever: once his choice is made, he has to move on, without
thinking about the path he has rejected. Otherwise, the crossroad becomes a curse.
- Paulo Coelho
Maktub
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Topic: Philosophical
If you want to fly, grow wings of faith.
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Topic: Philosophical
To be incapable of taking one’s enemies, one’s accidents, even one’s misdeeds seriously for very long - that is the sign of strong full natures in whom there is an excess of power to form, to mold, to recuperate and to forget. Mirabeau had no memory for insults and vile actions done to him and was unable to forgive simply because he - forgot. Such a man shakes off with a single shrug the many vermin that eat deep into others.
- Friedrich Nietzsche On the Genealogy of Morals
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Topic: Philosophical
Y, entonces, en ese instante que tan solo dura un segundo, el cerebro se encarga de abrir la cerradura del cofre en el cual guardas todo lo que aprecias. Cede de tal manera que la tapa se abre y todo lo que hay en el interior sale de forma tan rápida y tan fugaz que no puedes detenerlo.
- Audrey Dry
Sin mirar atrás
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Topic: Philosophical
Is it possible that power can conquer matter, that the soul makes a mightier truth than the body, that life has a meaning that survives life itself, that good survives evil as life survives death, that God, after all, is more powerful than the Devil?
- Frigyes Karinthy
Chains
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Topic: Philosophical
A beautiful idea can give you immortality—not success or money.
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Philosophical, Success
Waktu berjalan ke Barat di waktu pagi hari matahari mengikutiku di belakang.
Aku berjalan mengikuti bayang-bayangku sendiri yang memanjang di depan.
Aku dan matahari tidak bertengkar tentang siapa di antara kami yang telah menciptakan bayang-bayang,
aku dan bayang-bayang tidak bertengkar tentang siapa di antara kami yang harus berjalan di depan.
- Sapardi Djoko Damono
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Philosophical
Herein lies the supreme wisdom, human and divine; and the task of philosophy consists in teaching men to submit joyously to Necessity which hears nothing and is indifferent to all.
- Lev Shestov
Athens and Jerusalem
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Philosophical
Standing in the middle between the idea of an event and the actual event, a strange kind of physical reality just in the middle between possibility and reality.
- Heisenberg
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Philosophical
In the pragmatist, streetwise climate of advanced postmodern capitalism, with its scepticism of big pictures and grand narratives, its hard-nosed disenchantment with the metaphysical, 'life' is one among a whole series of discredited totalities. We are invited to think small rather than big – ironically, at just the point when some of those out to destroy Western civilization are doing exactly the opposite. In the conflict between Western capitalism and radical Islam, a paucity of belief squares up to an excess of it. The West finds itself faced with a full-blooded metaphysical onslaught at just the historical point that it has, so to speak, philosophically disarmed. As far as belief goes, postmodernism prefers to travel light: it has beliefs, to be sure, but it does not have faith.
- Terry Eagleton
The Meaning of Life
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Philosophical, Religion
He stole glances at the heathen faces of Bodien and Gaylord, the suffering, yet oddly consoled, eyes and mouth of Basellecci, noting the brave enthusiasm of men who had never dreamed of anything very definite, and it occurred to him through the reek of his person that there was only one hope for him, and for all people who had lost, through intelligence, the hope of immortality. "We must love and delight in each other and in ourselves!" he cried.
- Edward Lewis Wallant
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Philosophical, Religion
Nothing was ordinary, since nothing had ever happened to me.
- Jacqueline Harpman
I Who Have Never Known Men
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Philosophical
There is a common tendency to turn off one's imagination at certain points and refuse to contemplate the possibility of having to do certain things and cope with the attendant moral problems. The things simply get done by the social machine, and one can keep one's clear conscience and one's moral indignation unsullied.
- John Fraser
Violence in the Arts
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Philosophical
XXX
NOT YET RATING ▼
No woman in maternity confinement can have stranger and more impatient wishes than I have.
Topic: Philosophical
All I'm trying to say is that if you're not willing to observe this, if you're just going to condemn it, you're never going to see it. It's there, whether you like it or not. This is stupid life-force we're dealing with here," he said. "Think how old it is, Jim. Think how huge it is. Understanding it doesn't make any difference.
- Jim Paul
Catapult: Harry and I Build a Siege Weapon
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Philosophical
I kind of love it. It's so macabre. The reason we haven't seen or heard from anything off-world is that reaching off-world status is a civilisational death knell. Life either gets stuck there or destroyed there. It still doesn't really explain anything though - we can't see anyone because it's impossible to see anyone. It's circular. It doesn't say why becoming space proficient dooms us.
- Martin MacInnes
In Ascension
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Philosophical
Man, consider first what the matter is (which you propose to do), then your own nature also, what it is able to bear. If you are a wrestler, look at your shoulders, your thighs, your loins: for different men are naturally formed for different things.
- Epictetus, Discourses
Discourses and Selected Writings of Epictetus
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Philosophical
If you know not how to die, never trouble yourself; Nature will in a moment fully and sufficiently instruct you; she will exactly do that business for you; take you no care for it.
- Michael de Montaigne
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Philosophical
You are the softness of the morning dew!
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Philosophical
Spinoza or Nietzsche are philosophers whose critical and destructive powers are without equal, but this power always springs from affirmation, from joy, from a cult of affirmation and joy, from the exigency of life against those who would mutilate and mortify life. For me, that is philosophy itself.
- Gilles Deleuze
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Philosophical
XXX
NOT YET RATING ▼
Man is timid and apologetic; he is no longer upright; he dares not say "I think," "I am," but quotes some saint or safe.
Topic: Philosophical
Silence is nice to have if you wanted it, but maddening if you didn't.
- Daniel V Chappell
Topic: Philosophical
Whatever some people might say, it seems to me that a world in which I can fly, bend space and time, and meet with people who have been dead for years, deserves more consideration than it gets. If I weigh the waking world on one side of the scale and the dream world on the other, which one is more substantial? Doesn’t a world of endless possibilities seem more likely to contain the whole of our lives than the fraction of the world that we call real?
- Thomas Lloyd Qualls
Painted Oxen
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Philosophical
There's a kind of saying that you don't understand its meaning, 'I don't believe it. It's too crazy. I'm not going to accept it.'… You'll have to accept it. It's the way nature works. If you want to know how nature works, we looked at it, carefully. Looking at it, that's the way it looks. You don't like it? Go somewhere else, to another universe where the rules are simpler, philosophically more pleasing, more psychologically easy. I can't help it, okay? If I'm going to tell you honestly what the world looks like to the human beings who have struggled as hard as they can to understand it, I can only tell you what it looks like.
- Richard Feynman
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Philosophical
A crossroad is a holy place. There, the pilgrim has to make a decision. That is why the
gods usually sleep and eat at crossroads. Where roads cross, two great forces are concentrated -the
path that will be chosen, and the path to be ignored. Both are transformed into a single path, but only for
a short period of time. The pilgrim may rest, sleep a bit, and even consult with the gods that inhabit the
crossroad. But no one can remain there forever: once his choice is made, he has to move on, without
thinking about the path he has rejected. Otherwise, the crossroad becomes a curse.
- Paulo Coelho
Maktub
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Philosophical
If you want to fly, grow wings of faith.
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Philosophical
To be incapable of taking one’s enemies, one’s accidents, even one’s misdeeds seriously for very long - that is the sign of strong full natures in whom there is an excess of power to form, to mold, to recuperate and to forget. Mirabeau had no memory for insults and vile actions done to him and was unable to forgive simply because he - forgot. Such a man shakes off with a single shrug the many vermin that eat deep into others.
- Friedrich Nietzsche On the Genealogy of Morals
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Philosophical
Y, entonces, en ese instante que tan solo dura un segundo, el cerebro se encarga de abrir la cerradura del cofre en el cual guardas todo lo que aprecias. Cede de tal manera que la tapa se abre y todo lo que hay en el interior sale de forma tan rápida y tan fugaz que no puedes detenerlo.
- Audrey Dry
Sin mirar atrás
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Philosophical
Is it possible that power can conquer matter, that the soul makes a mightier truth than the body, that life has a meaning that survives life itself, that good survives evil as life survives death, that God, after all, is more powerful than the Devil?
- Frigyes Karinthy
Chains
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Philosophical
A beautiful idea can give you immortality—not success or money.
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Philosophical, Success
Waktu berjalan ke Barat di waktu pagi hari matahari mengikutiku di belakang.
Aku berjalan mengikuti bayang-bayangku sendiri yang memanjang di depan.
Aku dan matahari tidak bertengkar tentang siapa di antara kami yang telah menciptakan bayang-bayang,
aku dan bayang-bayang tidak bertengkar tentang siapa di antara kami yang harus berjalan di depan.
- Sapardi Djoko Damono
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Philosophical
Herein lies the supreme wisdom, human and divine; and the task of philosophy consists in teaching men to submit joyously to Necessity which hears nothing and is indifferent to all.
- Lev Shestov
Athens and Jerusalem
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Philosophical
Standing in the middle between the idea of an event and the actual event, a strange kind of physical reality just in the middle between possibility and reality.
- Heisenberg
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Philosophical
In the pragmatist, streetwise climate of advanced postmodern capitalism, with its scepticism of big pictures and grand narratives, its hard-nosed disenchantment with the metaphysical, 'life' is one among a whole series of discredited totalities. We are invited to think small rather than big – ironically, at just the point when some of those out to destroy Western civilization are doing exactly the opposite. In the conflict between Western capitalism and radical Islam, a paucity of belief squares up to an excess of it. The West finds itself faced with a full-blooded metaphysical onslaught at just the historical point that it has, so to speak, philosophically disarmed. As far as belief goes, postmodernism prefers to travel light: it has beliefs, to be sure, but it does not have faith.
- Terry Eagleton
The Meaning of Life
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Philosophical, Religion
He stole glances at the heathen faces of Bodien and Gaylord, the suffering, yet oddly consoled, eyes and mouth of Basellecci, noting the brave enthusiasm of men who had never dreamed of anything very definite, and it occurred to him through the reek of his person that there was only one hope for him, and for all people who had lost, through intelligence, the hope of immortality. "We must love and delight in each other and in ourselves!" he cried.
- Edward Lewis Wallant
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Philosophical, Religion
Nothing was ordinary, since nothing had ever happened to me.
- Jacqueline Harpman
I Who Have Never Known Men
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Philosophical
There is a common tendency to turn off one's imagination at certain points and refuse to contemplate the possibility of having to do certain things and cope with the attendant moral problems. The things simply get done by the social machine, and one can keep one's clear conscience and one's moral indignation unsullied.
- John Fraser
Violence in the Arts
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Philosophical
XXX
NOT YET RATING ▼
No woman in maternity confinement can have stranger and more impatient wishes than I have.
Topic: Philosophical
All I'm trying to say is that if you're not willing to observe this, if you're just going to condemn it, you're never going to see it. It's there, whether you like it or not. This is stupid life-force we're dealing with here," he said. "Think how old it is, Jim. Think how huge it is. Understanding it doesn't make any difference.
- Jim Paul
Catapult: Harry and I Build a Siege Weapon
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Philosophical
I kind of love it. It's so macabre. The reason we haven't seen or heard from anything off-world is that reaching off-world status is a civilisational death knell. Life either gets stuck there or destroyed there. It still doesn't really explain anything though - we can't see anyone because it's impossible to see anyone. It's circular. It doesn't say why becoming space proficient dooms us.
- Martin MacInnes
In Ascension
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Philosophical
Man, consider first what the matter is (which you propose to do), then your own nature also, what it is able to bear. If you are a wrestler, look at your shoulders, your thighs, your loins: for different men are naturally formed for different things.
- Epictetus, Discourses
Discourses and Selected Writings of Epictetus
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Philosophical
If you know not how to die, never trouble yourself; Nature will in a moment fully and sufficiently instruct you; she will exactly do that business for you; take you no care for it.
- Michael de Montaigne
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Philosophical
You are the softness of the morning dew!
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Philosophical
Spinoza or Nietzsche are philosophers whose critical and destructive powers are without equal, but this power always springs from affirmation, from joy, from a cult of affirmation and joy, from the exigency of life against those who would mutilate and mortify life. For me, that is philosophy itself.
- Gilles Deleuze
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Philosophical
XXX
NOT YET RATING ▼
Man is timid and apologetic; he is no longer upright; he dares not say "I think," "I am," but quotes some saint or safe.
Topic: Philosophical
Silence is nice to have if you wanted it, but maddening if you didn't.
- Daniel V Chappell
Topic: Philosophical
Whatever some people might say, it seems to me that a world in which I can fly, bend space and time, and meet with people who have been dead for years, deserves more consideration than it gets. If I weigh the waking world on one side of the scale and the dream world on the other, which one is more substantial? Doesn’t a world of endless possibilities seem more likely to contain the whole of our lives than the fraction of the world that we call real?
- Thomas Lloyd Qualls
Painted Oxen
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Philosophical
There's a kind of saying that you don't understand its meaning, 'I don't believe it. It's too crazy. I'm not going to accept it.'… You'll have to accept it. It's the way nature works. If you want to know how nature works, we looked at it, carefully. Looking at it, that's the way it looks. You don't like it? Go somewhere else, to another universe where the rules are simpler, philosophically more pleasing, more psychologically easy. I can't help it, okay? If I'm going to tell you honestly what the world looks like to the human beings who have struggled as hard as they can to understand it, I can only tell you what it looks like.
- Richard Feynman
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Philosophical
A crossroad is a holy place. There, the pilgrim has to make a decision. That is why the
gods usually sleep and eat at crossroads. Where roads cross, two great forces are concentrated -the
path that will be chosen, and the path to be ignored. Both are transformed into a single path, but only for
a short period of time. The pilgrim may rest, sleep a bit, and even consult with the gods that inhabit the
crossroad. But no one can remain there forever: once his choice is made, he has to move on, without
thinking about the path he has rejected. Otherwise, the crossroad becomes a curse.
- Paulo Coelho
Maktub
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Philosophical
If you want to fly, grow wings of faith.
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Philosophical
To be incapable of taking one’s enemies, one’s accidents, even one’s misdeeds seriously for very long - that is the sign of strong full natures in whom there is an excess of power to form, to mold, to recuperate and to forget. Mirabeau had no memory for insults and vile actions done to him and was unable to forgive simply because he - forgot. Such a man shakes off with a single shrug the many vermin that eat deep into others.
- Friedrich Nietzsche On the Genealogy of Morals
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Philosophical
Y, entonces, en ese instante que tan solo dura un segundo, el cerebro se encarga de abrir la cerradura del cofre en el cual guardas todo lo que aprecias. Cede de tal manera que la tapa se abre y todo lo que hay en el interior sale de forma tan rápida y tan fugaz que no puedes detenerlo.
- Audrey Dry
Sin mirar atrás
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Philosophical
Is it possible that power can conquer matter, that the soul makes a mightier truth than the body, that life has a meaning that survives life itself, that good survives evil as life survives death, that God, after all, is more powerful than the Devil?
- Frigyes Karinthy
Chains
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Philosophical
A beautiful idea can give you immortality—not success or money.
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Philosophical, Success
Waktu berjalan ke Barat di waktu pagi hari matahari mengikutiku di belakang.
Aku berjalan mengikuti bayang-bayangku sendiri yang memanjang di depan.
Aku dan matahari tidak bertengkar tentang siapa di antara kami yang telah menciptakan bayang-bayang,
aku dan bayang-bayang tidak bertengkar tentang siapa di antara kami yang harus berjalan di depan.
- Sapardi Djoko Damono
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Philosophical
Herein lies the supreme wisdom, human and divine; and the task of philosophy consists in teaching men to submit joyously to Necessity which hears nothing and is indifferent to all.
- Lev Shestov
Athens and Jerusalem
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Philosophical
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