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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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Marriage is not kick-boxing, it's salsa dancing.
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Philosophy is like wine. There are good years and bad years but, in general, the older the better.
- Eric Weiner
The Geography of Genius: A Search for the World's Most Creative Places from Ancient Athens to Silicon Valley
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Poverty is a virtue which one can teach oneself.
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It is more Important to be of pure intention than of perfect action.
- Ilyas Kassam
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You think maybe if you just work harder and faster, you can hold off the chaos, but then one day you’re changing a patio light bulb with a five-year life span and you realize how you’ll only be changing this light maybe ten more times before you’ll be dead.
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O dear Pan and all the other gods of this place, grant that I may be beautiful inside. Let all my external possessions be in friendly harmony with what is within. May I consider the wise man rich. As for gold, let me have as much as a moderate man could bear and carry with him.
- Plato
Phaedrus
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All beings so far have created something beyond themselves; and do you want to be the ebb of this great flood and even go back to the beasts rather than overcome man? What is the ape to man? A laughingstock or a painful embarrassment. And man shall be just that for the overman: a laughingstock or a painful embarrassment…
- Nietzsche Friedrich
Thus Spoke Zarathustra
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As long as your ideas of what's possible are limited by what's actual, no other idea has a chance.
- Susan Neiman
Moral Clarity: A Guide for Grown-up Idealists
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[Y]our agricultural revolution is not an event like the Trojan War, isolated in the distant past and without relevance to your lives today. The work begun by those neolithic farmers in the Near East has been carried forward from one generation to the next without a single break, right into the present moment. It's the foundation of your vast civilization today in exactly the same way that it was the foundation of the very first farming village.
- Daniel Quinn
Ishmael: An Adventure of the Mind and Spirit
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Most people are like sheep. Nice, harmless creatures who want nothing more than to be left alone so they can graze. But then of course there are wolves. Who want nothing more than to eat the sheep.

But there’s a third kind of person. The sheepdog. Sheepdogs have fangs like wolves. But their instinct isn’t predation. It’s protection. All they want, what they live for, is to protect the flock.
- Barry Eisler
Livia Lone
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Maybe we should always start everything from the inside and work to the outside, and not from the outside to the inside. What d'you think?
- Aidan Chambers
Postcards from No Man's Land
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If you try to imagine as nearly as you can what an amount of misery, pain, and suffering of every kind the sun shines upon in its course, you will admit that it would be much better if on the earth as little as on the moon the sun were able to call forth the phenomena of life; and if, here as there, the surface were still in a crystalline state".
- Arthur Schopenhauer
On the Suffering of the World
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Different languages, the same thoughts; servant to thoughts and their masters.
- Dejan Stojanovic
The Sun Watches the Sun
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Believe in human beings - not all are good, but deep down all can be. But that doesn't mean you need to hang around crappy people and try to turn them around.
- Jonas Eriksson
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According to the Buddha's teaching the beginning of the life-stream of living beings is unthinkable. THe believer in the creation of life by God may be astonished at this reply. But if you were to ask him 'What is the beginning of God?' he would answer without hesitation 'God has no beginning', and he is not astonished at his own reply.
- Walpola Rahula
What the Buddha Taught
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THE PRESOCRATIC PROBLEM

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Parmenides named his gun The Hot Power of the Stars. His gun was one, uncreated, imperishable, timeless, changeless, perfect, spherical. Spherical was the problem.
- Anne Carson
Decreation: Poetry, Essays, Opera
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Those who make conversations impossible, make escalation inevitable.
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The good which every man, who follows after virtue, desires for himself he will also desire for other men...
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But in doing so---moving forward...---he's still dealing with the past. It's always strung out behind us, innit, attached to our arses like a roll of toilet paper we trail out of the bathroom, pointing the way to the giant shite we just took. It doesn't matter if we flushed it down; Everyone still knows what we did there. So its fine to say it's all done and you have no connection with the past, that you're a new person every second, but silly in my view to pretend that person isn't made of the old one.
- Kevin Hearne
Staked
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Every individual, however original he may be, is still a child of God, of his age, of his nation, of his family and friends. Only thus is he truly himself. If in all this relativity he tries to be the absolute, then he becomes ridiculous.
- Søren Kierkegaard
Either/Or: A Fragment of Life
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One does what one is; one becomes what one does.
- Robert Musil
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The selfish man suffers more from his selfishness than he from whom that selfishness withholds some important benefit.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The Portable Emerson
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God created philosophy for all the intellects that got bored of hearing the same bible stories every Sunday.
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Life is a complex
with real and imaginary parts
- Angela Suba Natarajan
From My Pen, On Life
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Marriage is not kick-boxing, it's salsa dancing.
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Philosophy is like wine. There are good years and bad years but, in general, the older the better.
- Eric Weiner
The Geography of Genius: A Search for the World's Most Creative Places from Ancient Athens to Silicon Valley
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Poverty is a virtue which one can teach oneself.
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It is more Important to be of pure intention than of perfect action.
- Ilyas Kassam
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You think maybe if you just work harder and faster, you can hold off the chaos, but then one day you’re changing a patio light bulb with a five-year life span and you realize how you’ll only be changing this light maybe ten more times before you’ll be dead.
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O dear Pan and all the other gods of this place, grant that I may be beautiful inside. Let all my external possessions be in friendly harmony with what is within. May I consider the wise man rich. As for gold, let me have as much as a moderate man could bear and carry with him.
- Plato
Phaedrus
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All beings so far have created something beyond themselves; and do you want to be the ebb of this great flood and even go back to the beasts rather than overcome man? What is the ape to man? A laughingstock or a painful embarrassment. And man shall be just that for the overman: a laughingstock or a painful embarrassment…
- Nietzsche Friedrich
Thus Spoke Zarathustra
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As long as your ideas of what's possible are limited by what's actual, no other idea has a chance.
- Susan Neiman
Moral Clarity: A Guide for Grown-up Idealists
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[Y]our agricultural revolution is not an event like the Trojan War, isolated in the distant past and without relevance to your lives today. The work begun by those neolithic farmers in the Near East has been carried forward from one generation to the next without a single break, right into the present moment. It's the foundation of your vast civilization today in exactly the same way that it was the foundation of the very first farming village.
- Daniel Quinn
Ishmael: An Adventure of the Mind and Spirit
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Most people are like sheep. Nice, harmless creatures who want nothing more than to be left alone so they can graze. But then of course there are wolves. Who want nothing more than to eat the sheep.

But there’s a third kind of person. The sheepdog. Sheepdogs have fangs like wolves. But their instinct isn’t predation. It’s protection. All they want, what they live for, is to protect the flock.
- Barry Eisler
Livia Lone
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Maybe we should always start everything from the inside and work to the outside, and not from the outside to the inside. What d'you think?
- Aidan Chambers
Postcards from No Man's Land
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If you try to imagine as nearly as you can what an amount of misery, pain, and suffering of every kind the sun shines upon in its course, you will admit that it would be much better if on the earth as little as on the moon the sun were able to call forth the phenomena of life; and if, here as there, the surface were still in a crystalline state".
- Arthur Schopenhauer
On the Suffering of the World
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Different languages, the same thoughts; servant to thoughts and their masters.
- Dejan Stojanovic
The Sun Watches the Sun
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Believe in human beings - not all are good, but deep down all can be. But that doesn't mean you need to hang around crappy people and try to turn them around.
- Jonas Eriksson
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According to the Buddha's teaching the beginning of the life-stream of living beings is unthinkable. THe believer in the creation of life by God may be astonished at this reply. But if you were to ask him 'What is the beginning of God?' he would answer without hesitation 'God has no beginning', and he is not astonished at his own reply.
- Walpola Rahula
What the Buddha Taught
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THE PRESOCRATIC PROBLEM

[all snap flags]
Parmenides named his gun The Hot Power of the Stars. His gun was one, uncreated, imperishable, timeless, changeless, perfect, spherical. Spherical was the problem.
- Anne Carson
Decreation: Poetry, Essays, Opera
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Those who make conversations impossible, make escalation inevitable.
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The good which every man, who follows after virtue, desires for himself he will also desire for other men...
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But in doing so---moving forward...---he's still dealing with the past. It's always strung out behind us, innit, attached to our arses like a roll of toilet paper we trail out of the bathroom, pointing the way to the giant shite we just took. It doesn't matter if we flushed it down; Everyone still knows what we did there. So its fine to say it's all done and you have no connection with the past, that you're a new person every second, but silly in my view to pretend that person isn't made of the old one.
- Kevin Hearne
Staked
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Every individual, however original he may be, is still a child of God, of his age, of his nation, of his family and friends. Only thus is he truly himself. If in all this relativity he tries to be the absolute, then he becomes ridiculous.
- Søren Kierkegaard
Either/Or: A Fragment of Life
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One does what one is; one becomes what one does.
- Robert Musil
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The selfish man suffers more from his selfishness than he from whom that selfishness withholds some important benefit.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The Portable Emerson
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God created philosophy for all the intellects that got bored of hearing the same bible stories every Sunday.
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Life is a complex
with real and imaginary parts
- Angela Suba Natarajan
From My Pen, On Life
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Marriage is not kick-boxing, it's salsa dancing.
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Philosophy is like wine. There are good years and bad years but, in general, the older the better.
- Eric Weiner
The Geography of Genius: A Search for the World's Most Creative Places from Ancient Athens to Silicon Valley
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Poverty is a virtue which one can teach oneself.
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
It is more Important to be of pure intention than of perfect action.
- Ilyas Kassam
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
You think maybe if you just work harder and faster, you can hold off the chaos, but then one day you’re changing a patio light bulb with a five-year life span and you realize how you’ll only be changing this light maybe ten more times before you’ll be dead.
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
O dear Pan and all the other gods of this place, grant that I may be beautiful inside. Let all my external possessions be in friendly harmony with what is within. May I consider the wise man rich. As for gold, let me have as much as a moderate man could bear and carry with him.
- Plato
Phaedrus
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All beings so far have created something beyond themselves; and do you want to be the ebb of this great flood and even go back to the beasts rather than overcome man? What is the ape to man? A laughingstock or a painful embarrassment. And man shall be just that for the overman: a laughingstock or a painful embarrassment…
- Nietzsche Friedrich
Thus Spoke Zarathustra
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As long as your ideas of what's possible are limited by what's actual, no other idea has a chance.
- Susan Neiman
Moral Clarity: A Guide for Grown-up Idealists
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
[Y]our agricultural revolution is not an event like the Trojan War, isolated in the distant past and without relevance to your lives today. The work begun by those neolithic farmers in the Near East has been carried forward from one generation to the next without a single break, right into the present moment. It's the foundation of your vast civilization today in exactly the same way that it was the foundation of the very first farming village.
- Daniel Quinn
Ishmael: An Adventure of the Mind and Spirit
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Most people are like sheep. Nice, harmless creatures who want nothing more than to be left alone so they can graze. But then of course there are wolves. Who want nothing more than to eat the sheep.

But there’s a third kind of person. The sheepdog. Sheepdogs have fangs like wolves. But their instinct isn’t predation. It’s protection. All they want, what they live for, is to protect the flock.
- Barry Eisler
Livia Lone
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Maybe we should always start everything from the inside and work to the outside, and not from the outside to the inside. What d'you think?
- Aidan Chambers
Postcards from No Man's Land
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If you try to imagine as nearly as you can what an amount of misery, pain, and suffering of every kind the sun shines upon in its course, you will admit that it would be much better if on the earth as little as on the moon the sun were able to call forth the phenomena of life; and if, here as there, the surface were still in a crystalline state".
- Arthur Schopenhauer
On the Suffering of the World
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Different languages, the same thoughts; servant to thoughts and their masters.
- Dejan Stojanovic
The Sun Watches the Sun
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Believe in human beings - not all are good, but deep down all can be. But that doesn't mean you need to hang around crappy people and try to turn them around.
- Jonas Eriksson
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
According to the Buddha's teaching the beginning of the life-stream of living beings is unthinkable. THe believer in the creation of life by God may be astonished at this reply. But if you were to ask him 'What is the beginning of God?' he would answer without hesitation 'God has no beginning', and he is not astonished at his own reply.
- Walpola Rahula
What the Buddha Taught
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THE PRESOCRATIC PROBLEM

[all snap flags]
Parmenides named his gun The Hot Power of the Stars. His gun was one, uncreated, imperishable, timeless, changeless, perfect, spherical. Spherical was the problem.
- Anne Carson
Decreation: Poetry, Essays, Opera
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Those who make conversations impossible, make escalation inevitable.
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
The good which every man, who follows after virtue, desires for himself he will also desire for other men...
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
But in doing so---moving forward...---he's still dealing with the past. It's always strung out behind us, innit, attached to our arses like a roll of toilet paper we trail out of the bathroom, pointing the way to the giant shite we just took. It doesn't matter if we flushed it down; Everyone still knows what we did there. So its fine to say it's all done and you have no connection with the past, that you're a new person every second, but silly in my view to pretend that person isn't made of the old one.
- Kevin Hearne
Staked
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Every individual, however original he may be, is still a child of God, of his age, of his nation, of his family and friends. Only thus is he truly himself. If in all this relativity he tries to be the absolute, then he becomes ridiculous.
- Søren Kierkegaard
Either/Or: A Fragment of Life
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
One does what one is; one becomes what one does.
- Robert Musil
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
The selfish man suffers more from his selfishness than he from whom that selfishness withholds some important benefit.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The Portable Emerson
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
God created philosophy for all the intellects that got bored of hearing the same bible stories every Sunday.
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Life is a complex
with real and imaginary parts
- Angela Suba Natarajan
From My Pen, On Life
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
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