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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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When you draw something it lives and when you photograph it it dies.
- John Fowles
The Collector
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Musical training is a more potent instrument than any other, because rhythm and harmony find their way into the inward places of the soul.
- Plato
The Republic
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Who is to decide which is the grimmer sight: withered hearts, or empty skulls?
- Honoré de Balzac
Père Goriot
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What we cannot bear removes us from life; what remains can be borne.
- Marcus Aurelius
Meditations
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Consider the cattle, grazing as they pass you by. They do not know what is meant by yesterday or today, they leap about, eat, rest, digest, leap about again, and so from morn till night and from day to day, fettered to the moment and its pleasure or displeasure, and thus neither melancholy nor bored. [...] A human being may well ask an animal: 'Why do you not speak to me of your happiness but only stand and gaze at me?' The animal would like to answer, and say, 'The reason is I always forget what I was going to say' - but then he forgot this answer too, and stayed silent.
- Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
Untimely Meditations
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To stay or to go, it amounted to the same thing.
- Albert Camus
The Stranger
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I am a citizen of the world.
- Diogenes of Sinope
The Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers
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We look for the Secret - the Philosopher's Stone, the Elixir of the Wise, Supreme Enlightenment, 'God' or whatever...and all the time it is carrying us about...It is the human nervous system itself.
- Robert Anton Wilson
Cosmic Trigger - Volume I: Final Secret of the Illuminati
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An honest bookstore would post the following sign above its 'self-help' section: 'For true self-help, please visit our philosophy, literature, history and science sections, find yourself a good book, read it, and think about it.
- Roger Ebert
I Hated, Hated, Hated This Movie
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Let whoever can do so deceive me, he will never bring it about that I am nothing, so long as I continue to think I am something.
- Descartes René 1596-1650
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Quis custodiet ipsos custodes? - Who watches the watchmen?
- Alan Moore
Watchmen
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Wherever there is a human being, there is an opportunity for crisis.
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Study yourself. Become your own mentor and best friend. When you are suffering stay at the bottom until you find out who you are. Let the storms come and pass. How you walk through the fire says a lot about you. Nobody likes a victimhood mentality and what happened to you is not important. It is about how you use your chaos that matters. The dawn will come
- Mohadesa Najumi
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Minds, however, are conquered not by arms, but by love and nobility.
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Muhabbat apni marzi se khulay pinjray main totay ki tarha bethnay ki salaahiyat hai. Muhabbat is ghulami ka toq hai jo insaan khud apnay ekhtyar se galay main dalta hai
- Bano Qudsiyah
Hasil Ghat / حاصل گھاٹ
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It takes too much energy to be against something unless it's really important.
- Madeleine L'Engle
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Rockabye Baby, in the treetop
Dont you know a treetop
is no safe place to rock?
And who put you up there,
and your cradle too?
Baby,
I think someone down here
has got it in for you!
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One great thing about growing old is that nothing is going to lead to anything. Everything is of the moment.
- Joseph Campbell
A Joseph Campbell Companion: Reflections on the Art of Living
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Isn't wine prohibited here?" the boy asked. "It's not what enters men's mouths that's evil," said the alchemist. "It's what comes out of their mouths that is.
- Paulo Coelho
The Alchemist
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We feel most alive when we are closest to death.
- Nenia Campbell
Terrorscape
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Man, the bravest of animals, and the one most accustomed to suffering, does not repudiate suffering as such; he desires it, he even seeks it out, provided he is shown a meaning for it, a purpose of suffering. The meaninglessness of suffering, not suffering itself, was the curse that lay over mankind so far.
- Friedrich Nietzsche
On the Genealogy of Morals
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He who is more mindful of one, loses the love and the faith of both.
- Khalil Gibran
The Prophet
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My heart knows what my mind only think it knows.
- Noah BenShea
Jacob the Baker: Gentle Wisdom For a Complicated World
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No man was ever yet a great poet, without at the same time being a profound philosopher.
- Samuel Coleridge
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When you draw something it lives and when you photograph it it dies.
- John Fowles
The Collector
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Musical training is a more potent instrument than any other, because rhythm and harmony find their way into the inward places of the soul.
- Plato
The Republic
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Who is to decide which is the grimmer sight: withered hearts, or empty skulls?
- Honoré de Balzac
Père Goriot
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What we cannot bear removes us from life; what remains can be borne.
- Marcus Aurelius
Meditations
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Consider the cattle, grazing as they pass you by. They do not know what is meant by yesterday or today, they leap about, eat, rest, digest, leap about again, and so from morn till night and from day to day, fettered to the moment and its pleasure or displeasure, and thus neither melancholy nor bored. [...] A human being may well ask an animal: 'Why do you not speak to me of your happiness but only stand and gaze at me?' The animal would like to answer, and say, 'The reason is I always forget what I was going to say' - but then he forgot this answer too, and stayed silent.
- Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
Untimely Meditations
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To stay or to go, it amounted to the same thing.
- Albert Camus
The Stranger
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I am a citizen of the world.
- Diogenes of Sinope
The Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers
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We look for the Secret - the Philosopher's Stone, the Elixir of the Wise, Supreme Enlightenment, 'God' or whatever...and all the time it is carrying us about...It is the human nervous system itself.
- Robert Anton Wilson
Cosmic Trigger - Volume I: Final Secret of the Illuminati
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
An honest bookstore would post the following sign above its 'self-help' section: 'For true self-help, please visit our philosophy, literature, history and science sections, find yourself a good book, read it, and think about it.
- Roger Ebert
I Hated, Hated, Hated This Movie
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Let whoever can do so deceive me, he will never bring it about that I am nothing, so long as I continue to think I am something.
- Descartes René 1596-1650
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Quis custodiet ipsos custodes? - Who watches the watchmen?
- Alan Moore
Watchmen
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Wherever there is a human being, there is an opportunity for crisis.
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Study yourself. Become your own mentor and best friend. When you are suffering stay at the bottom until you find out who you are. Let the storms come and pass. How you walk through the fire says a lot about you. Nobody likes a victimhood mentality and what happened to you is not important. It is about how you use your chaos that matters. The dawn will come
- Mohadesa Najumi
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Minds, however, are conquered not by arms, but by love and nobility.
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Muhabbat apni marzi se khulay pinjray main totay ki tarha bethnay ki salaahiyat hai. Muhabbat is ghulami ka toq hai jo insaan khud apnay ekhtyar se galay main dalta hai
- Bano Qudsiyah
Hasil Ghat / حاصل گھاٹ
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It takes too much energy to be against something unless it's really important.
- Madeleine L'Engle
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Rockabye Baby, in the treetop
Dont you know a treetop
is no safe place to rock?
And who put you up there,
and your cradle too?
Baby,
I think someone down here
has got it in for you!
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
One great thing about growing old is that nothing is going to lead to anything. Everything is of the moment.
- Joseph Campbell
A Joseph Campbell Companion: Reflections on the Art of Living
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Isn't wine prohibited here?" the boy asked. "It's not what enters men's mouths that's evil," said the alchemist. "It's what comes out of their mouths that is.
- Paulo Coelho
The Alchemist
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We feel most alive when we are closest to death.
- Nenia Campbell
Terrorscape
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Man, the bravest of animals, and the one most accustomed to suffering, does not repudiate suffering as such; he desires it, he even seeks it out, provided he is shown a meaning for it, a purpose of suffering. The meaninglessness of suffering, not suffering itself, was the curse that lay over mankind so far.
- Friedrich Nietzsche
On the Genealogy of Morals
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
He who is more mindful of one, loses the love and the faith of both.
- Khalil Gibran
The Prophet
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My heart knows what my mind only think it knows.
- Noah BenShea
Jacob the Baker: Gentle Wisdom For a Complicated World
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
No man was ever yet a great poet, without at the same time being a profound philosopher.
- Samuel Coleridge
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
When you draw something it lives and when you photograph it it dies.
- John Fowles
The Collector
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Musical training is a more potent instrument than any other, because rhythm and harmony find their way into the inward places of the soul.
- Plato
The Republic
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Who is to decide which is the grimmer sight: withered hearts, or empty skulls?
- Honoré de Balzac
Père Goriot
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
What we cannot bear removes us from life; what remains can be borne.
- Marcus Aurelius
Meditations
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Consider the cattle, grazing as they pass you by. They do not know what is meant by yesterday or today, they leap about, eat, rest, digest, leap about again, and so from morn till night and from day to day, fettered to the moment and its pleasure or displeasure, and thus neither melancholy nor bored. [...] A human being may well ask an animal: 'Why do you not speak to me of your happiness but only stand and gaze at me?' The animal would like to answer, and say, 'The reason is I always forget what I was going to say' - but then he forgot this answer too, and stayed silent.
- Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
Untimely Meditations
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
To stay or to go, it amounted to the same thing.
- Albert Camus
The Stranger
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
I am a citizen of the world.
- Diogenes of Sinope
The Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
We look for the Secret - the Philosopher's Stone, the Elixir of the Wise, Supreme Enlightenment, 'God' or whatever...and all the time it is carrying us about...It is the human nervous system itself.
- Robert Anton Wilson
Cosmic Trigger - Volume I: Final Secret of the Illuminati
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
An honest bookstore would post the following sign above its 'self-help' section: 'For true self-help, please visit our philosophy, literature, history and science sections, find yourself a good book, read it, and think about it.
- Roger Ebert
I Hated, Hated, Hated This Movie
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Let whoever can do so deceive me, he will never bring it about that I am nothing, so long as I continue to think I am something.
- Descartes René 1596-1650
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Quis custodiet ipsos custodes? - Who watches the watchmen?
- Alan Moore
Watchmen
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Wherever there is a human being, there is an opportunity for crisis.
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Study yourself. Become your own mentor and best friend. When you are suffering stay at the bottom until you find out who you are. Let the storms come and pass. How you walk through the fire says a lot about you. Nobody likes a victimhood mentality and what happened to you is not important. It is about how you use your chaos that matters. The dawn will come
- Mohadesa Najumi
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Minds, however, are conquered not by arms, but by love and nobility.
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Muhabbat apni marzi se khulay pinjray main totay ki tarha bethnay ki salaahiyat hai. Muhabbat is ghulami ka toq hai jo insaan khud apnay ekhtyar se galay main dalta hai
- Bano Qudsiyah
Hasil Ghat / حاصل گھاٹ
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
It takes too much energy to be against something unless it's really important.
- Madeleine L'Engle
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Rockabye Baby, in the treetop
Dont you know a treetop
is no safe place to rock?
And who put you up there,
and your cradle too?
Baby,
I think someone down here
has got it in for you!
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
One great thing about growing old is that nothing is going to lead to anything. Everything is of the moment.
- Joseph Campbell
A Joseph Campbell Companion: Reflections on the Art of Living
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Isn't wine prohibited here?" the boy asked. "It's not what enters men's mouths that's evil," said the alchemist. "It's what comes out of their mouths that is.
- Paulo Coelho
The Alchemist
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
We feel most alive when we are closest to death.
- Nenia Campbell
Terrorscape
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Man, the bravest of animals, and the one most accustomed to suffering, does not repudiate suffering as such; he desires it, he even seeks it out, provided he is shown a meaning for it, a purpose of suffering. The meaninglessness of suffering, not suffering itself, was the curse that lay over mankind so far.
- Friedrich Nietzsche
On the Genealogy of Morals
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
He who is more mindful of one, loses the love and the faith of both.
- Khalil Gibran
The Prophet
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
My heart knows what my mind only think it knows.
- Noah BenShea
Jacob the Baker: Gentle Wisdom For a Complicated World
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
No man was ever yet a great poet, without at the same time being a profound philosopher.
- Samuel Coleridge
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
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