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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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Religion?" Mr Kumar grinned broadly. "I don't believe in religion. Religion is darkness.
- Yann Martel
Life of Pi
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I predict we will abolish suffering throughout the living world. Our descendants will be animated by gradients of genetically pre-programmed well-being that are orders of magnitude richer than today's peak experiences.
- David Pearce
The Hedonistic Imperative
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All religions are based on obsolete terminology.
- Vladimir Nabokov
Pale Fire
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If you took the monsters' point of view, everything they did made perfect sense. The trick was learning to think like a monster.
- Sy Montgomery
The Soul of an Octopus: A Surprising Exploration into the Wonder of Consciousness
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Man is but a reed, the most feeble thing in nature; but he is a thinking reed.
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I'm probably 20 percent atheist and 80 percent agnostic. I don't think anyone really knows. You'll either find out or not when you get there, until then there's no point thinking about it.
- Brad Pitt
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If one does not develop, one goes down. In life, in ordinary conditions everything goes down, or one capacity may develop at the expense of another.
- P.D. Ouspensky
The Fourth Way: An Arrangement by Subject of Verbatim Extracts from the Records of Ouspensky's Meetings in London and New York, 1921-46
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Kitalah planet yang hidup itu, Sophie! Kitalah kapal besar yang berlayar mengelilingi matahari yang membakar alam raya. Tapi kita masing-masing adalah juga sebuah kapal bermuatan gen-gen yang melayari kehidupan. Jika kita sudah membawa muatan ini dengan selamat ke pelabuhan berikut --berarti hidup kita tidak sia-sia.
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I am looking out of my window in an anxious and resentful state of mind, oblivious to my surroundings, brooding perhaps on some damage done to my prestige. Then suddenly I observe a hovering kestrel. In a moment everything is altered. The brooding self with its hurt vanity has disappeared. There is nothing now but kestrel. And when I return to thinking of the other matter it seems less important
- Iris Murdoch
The Sovereignty of Good
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Awkward silences rule the world. People are so terrified of awkward silences that they will literally go to war rather than face an awkward silence.
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The danger today is in believing there are no sick people, there is only a sick society.
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Brahman is the ultimate reality; it is simultaneously Saguna and Nirguna; divisions are due to ignorance. Mind and intellect can never catch hold of it; they have only one option and that is to merge with it.
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A thing is only as great as the amount a person is willing to risk for it. If you are not willing to risk anything, then the thing mustn't be so great at all.
- Madeline Claire Franklin
The Poppet and the Lune
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Men are generally right in what they affirm and wrong in what they deny. What we deny is generally something that lies outside our experience, and about which we can therefore say nothing.
- H. Richard Niebuhr
Christ and Culture: 50th Anniversary Edition―Being True to Christ in a Materialistic Age
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Philosophers have often held dispute
As to the seat of thought in man and brute
For that the power of thought attends the latter
My friend, thy beau, hath made a settled matter,
And spite of dogmas current in all ages,
One settled fact is better than ten sages. (O,Tempora! O,Mores!)
- Edgar Allan Poe
The Complete Stories and Poems
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So it follows that those who have reason have freedom to will or not to will, although this freedom is not equal in all of them. [...] human souls are more free when they persevere in the contemplation of the mind of God, less free when they descend to the corporeal, and even less free when they are entirely imprisoned in earthly flesh and blood.
- Boethius
The Consolation of Philosophy
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We are as gods and might as well get good at it.
- Stewart Brand
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The people come to understand that wealth is not the fruit of labour but the result of organised, protected robbery. Rich people are no longer respectable people; they are nothing more than flesh eating animals, jackals and vultures which wallow in the people's blood.
- Frantz Fanon
The Wretched of the Earth
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Hope burns eternal in the human heart.
- O.R. Melling
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A moment or an eternity—did it matter? Life, undefeated, existed and could exist.
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Before this moment, I have never wished to be something other than what I am.
Never felt so keenly the lack of hands with which to touch, the lack of arms with which to hold.
Why did they give me this sense of self? Why allow me the intellect by which to measure this complete inadequacy? I would rather be numb than stand here in the light of a sun that can never chase the chill away
- Amie Kaufman
Illuminae
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The truth is, going against the internal stream of ignorance is way more rebellious than trying to start some sort of cultural revolution.
- Noah Levine
Dharma Punx: A Memoir
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Further, an excess of legislation defeats its own ends. It makes the whole population criminals, and turns them all into police and police spies. The moral health of such a people is ruined for ever; only revolution can save it.
- Aleister Crowley
Cocaine: Impressions and Opinions
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Never forget that there are only two philosophies to rule your life: the one of the cross, which starts with the fast and ends with the feast. The other of Satan, which starts with the feast and ends with the headache.
- Fulton J. Sheen
Seven Words of Jesus and Mary: Lessons from Cana and Calvary
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Religion?" Mr Kumar grinned broadly. "I don't believe in religion. Religion is darkness.
- Yann Martel
Life of Pi
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I predict we will abolish suffering throughout the living world. Our descendants will be animated by gradients of genetically pre-programmed well-being that are orders of magnitude richer than today's peak experiences.
- David Pearce
The Hedonistic Imperative
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All religions are based on obsolete terminology.
- Vladimir Nabokov
Pale Fire
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If you took the monsters' point of view, everything they did made perfect sense. The trick was learning to think like a monster.
- Sy Montgomery
The Soul of an Octopus: A Surprising Exploration into the Wonder of Consciousness
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Man is but a reed, the most feeble thing in nature; but he is a thinking reed.
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I'm probably 20 percent atheist and 80 percent agnostic. I don't think anyone really knows. You'll either find out or not when you get there, until then there's no point thinking about it.
- Brad Pitt
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If one does not develop, one goes down. In life, in ordinary conditions everything goes down, or one capacity may develop at the expense of another.
- P.D. Ouspensky
The Fourth Way: An Arrangement by Subject of Verbatim Extracts from the Records of Ouspensky's Meetings in London and New York, 1921-46
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Kitalah planet yang hidup itu, Sophie! Kitalah kapal besar yang berlayar mengelilingi matahari yang membakar alam raya. Tapi kita masing-masing adalah juga sebuah kapal bermuatan gen-gen yang melayari kehidupan. Jika kita sudah membawa muatan ini dengan selamat ke pelabuhan berikut --berarti hidup kita tidak sia-sia.
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I am looking out of my window in an anxious and resentful state of mind, oblivious to my surroundings, brooding perhaps on some damage done to my prestige. Then suddenly I observe a hovering kestrel. In a moment everything is altered. The brooding self with its hurt vanity has disappeared. There is nothing now but kestrel. And when I return to thinking of the other matter it seems less important
- Iris Murdoch
The Sovereignty of Good
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Awkward silences rule the world. People are so terrified of awkward silences that they will literally go to war rather than face an awkward silence.
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
The danger today is in believing there are no sick people, there is only a sick society.
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Brahman is the ultimate reality; it is simultaneously Saguna and Nirguna; divisions are due to ignorance. Mind and intellect can never catch hold of it; they have only one option and that is to merge with it.
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
A thing is only as great as the amount a person is willing to risk for it. If you are not willing to risk anything, then the thing mustn't be so great at all.
- Madeline Claire Franklin
The Poppet and the Lune
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Men are generally right in what they affirm and wrong in what they deny. What we deny is generally something that lies outside our experience, and about which we can therefore say nothing.
- H. Richard Niebuhr
Christ and Culture: 50th Anniversary Edition―Being True to Christ in a Materialistic Age
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Philosophers have often held dispute
As to the seat of thought in man and brute
For that the power of thought attends the latter
My friend, thy beau, hath made a settled matter,
And spite of dogmas current in all ages,
One settled fact is better than ten sages. (O,Tempora! O,Mores!)
- Edgar Allan Poe
The Complete Stories and Poems
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So it follows that those who have reason have freedom to will or not to will, although this freedom is not equal in all of them. [...] human souls are more free when they persevere in the contemplation of the mind of God, less free when they descend to the corporeal, and even less free when they are entirely imprisoned in earthly flesh and blood.
- Boethius
The Consolation of Philosophy
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We are as gods and might as well get good at it.
- Stewart Brand
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The people come to understand that wealth is not the fruit of labour but the result of organised, protected robbery. Rich people are no longer respectable people; they are nothing more than flesh eating animals, jackals and vultures which wallow in the people's blood.
- Frantz Fanon
The Wretched of the Earth
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Hope burns eternal in the human heart.
- O.R. Melling
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
A moment or an eternity—did it matter? Life, undefeated, existed and could exist.
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Before this moment, I have never wished to be something other than what I am.
Never felt so keenly the lack of hands with which to touch, the lack of arms with which to hold.
Why did they give me this sense of self? Why allow me the intellect by which to measure this complete inadequacy? I would rather be numb than stand here in the light of a sun that can never chase the chill away
- Amie Kaufman
Illuminae
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
The truth is, going against the internal stream of ignorance is way more rebellious than trying to start some sort of cultural revolution.
- Noah Levine
Dharma Punx: A Memoir
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Further, an excess of legislation defeats its own ends. It makes the whole population criminals, and turns them all into police and police spies. The moral health of such a people is ruined for ever; only revolution can save it.
- Aleister Crowley
Cocaine: Impressions and Opinions
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Never forget that there are only two philosophies to rule your life: the one of the cross, which starts with the fast and ends with the feast. The other of Satan, which starts with the feast and ends with the headache.
- Fulton J. Sheen
Seven Words of Jesus and Mary: Lessons from Cana and Calvary
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Religion?" Mr Kumar grinned broadly. "I don't believe in religion. Religion is darkness.
- Yann Martel
Life of Pi
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
I predict we will abolish suffering throughout the living world. Our descendants will be animated by gradients of genetically pre-programmed well-being that are orders of magnitude richer than today's peak experiences.
- David Pearce
The Hedonistic Imperative
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
All religions are based on obsolete terminology.
- Vladimir Nabokov
Pale Fire
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
If you took the monsters' point of view, everything they did made perfect sense. The trick was learning to think like a monster.
- Sy Montgomery
The Soul of an Octopus: A Surprising Exploration into the Wonder of Consciousness
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Man is but a reed, the most feeble thing in nature; but he is a thinking reed.
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
I'm probably 20 percent atheist and 80 percent agnostic. I don't think anyone really knows. You'll either find out or not when you get there, until then there's no point thinking about it.
- Brad Pitt
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
If one does not develop, one goes down. In life, in ordinary conditions everything goes down, or one capacity may develop at the expense of another.
- P.D. Ouspensky
The Fourth Way: An Arrangement by Subject of Verbatim Extracts from the Records of Ouspensky's Meetings in London and New York, 1921-46
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Kitalah planet yang hidup itu, Sophie! Kitalah kapal besar yang berlayar mengelilingi matahari yang membakar alam raya. Tapi kita masing-masing adalah juga sebuah kapal bermuatan gen-gen yang melayari kehidupan. Jika kita sudah membawa muatan ini dengan selamat ke pelabuhan berikut --berarti hidup kita tidak sia-sia.
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I am looking out of my window in an anxious and resentful state of mind, oblivious to my surroundings, brooding perhaps on some damage done to my prestige. Then suddenly I observe a hovering kestrel. In a moment everything is altered. The brooding self with its hurt vanity has disappeared. There is nothing now but kestrel. And when I return to thinking of the other matter it seems less important
- Iris Murdoch
The Sovereignty of Good
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Awkward silences rule the world. People are so terrified of awkward silences that they will literally go to war rather than face an awkward silence.
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
The danger today is in believing there are no sick people, there is only a sick society.
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Brahman is the ultimate reality; it is simultaneously Saguna and Nirguna; divisions are due to ignorance. Mind and intellect can never catch hold of it; they have only one option and that is to merge with it.
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
A thing is only as great as the amount a person is willing to risk for it. If you are not willing to risk anything, then the thing mustn't be so great at all.
- Madeline Claire Franklin
The Poppet and the Lune
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Men are generally right in what they affirm and wrong in what they deny. What we deny is generally something that lies outside our experience, and about which we can therefore say nothing.
- H. Richard Niebuhr
Christ and Culture: 50th Anniversary Edition―Being True to Christ in a Materialistic Age
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Philosophers have often held dispute
As to the seat of thought in man and brute
For that the power of thought attends the latter
My friend, thy beau, hath made a settled matter,
And spite of dogmas current in all ages,
One settled fact is better than ten sages. (O,Tempora! O,Mores!)
- Edgar Allan Poe
The Complete Stories and Poems
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
So it follows that those who have reason have freedom to will or not to will, although this freedom is not equal in all of them. [...] human souls are more free when they persevere in the contemplation of the mind of God, less free when they descend to the corporeal, and even less free when they are entirely imprisoned in earthly flesh and blood.
- Boethius
The Consolation of Philosophy
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
We are as gods and might as well get good at it.
- Stewart Brand
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
The people come to understand that wealth is not the fruit of labour but the result of organised, protected robbery. Rich people are no longer respectable people; they are nothing more than flesh eating animals, jackals and vultures which wallow in the people's blood.
- Frantz Fanon
The Wretched of the Earth
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Hope burns eternal in the human heart.
- O.R. Melling
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
A moment or an eternity—did it matter? Life, undefeated, existed and could exist.
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Before this moment, I have never wished to be something other than what I am.
Never felt so keenly the lack of hands with which to touch, the lack of arms with which to hold.
Why did they give me this sense of self? Why allow me the intellect by which to measure this complete inadequacy? I would rather be numb than stand here in the light of a sun that can never chase the chill away
- Amie Kaufman
Illuminae
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
The truth is, going against the internal stream of ignorance is way more rebellious than trying to start some sort of cultural revolution.
- Noah Levine
Dharma Punx: A Memoir
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Further, an excess of legislation defeats its own ends. It makes the whole population criminals, and turns them all into police and police spies. The moral health of such a people is ruined for ever; only revolution can save it.
- Aleister Crowley
Cocaine: Impressions and Opinions
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Never forget that there are only two philosophies to rule your life: the one of the cross, which starts with the fast and ends with the feast. The other of Satan, which starts with the feast and ends with the headache.
- Fulton J. Sheen
Seven Words of Jesus and Mary: Lessons from Cana and Calvary
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