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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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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
Topic: Philosophical
NOT YET RATED ▼
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
Topic: Philosophical
NOT YET RATED ▼
Different languages, the same thoughts; servant to thoughts and their masters.
- Dejan Stojanovic
The Sun Watches the Sun
Topic: Philosophical
NOT YET RATED ▼
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
Topic: Philosophical
NOT YET RATED ▼
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
Topic: Philosophical, Religion
NOT YET RATED ▼
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
Topic: Philosophical, Religion
NOT YET RATED ▼
Those who make conversations impossible, make escalation inevitable.
Topic: Philosophical, Relationships
NOT YET RATED ▼
The good which every man, who follows after virtue, desires for himself he will also desire for other men...
Topic: Philosophical
NOT YET RATED ▼
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
Topic: Philosophical
NOT YET RATED ▼
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
Topic: Philosophical
NOT YET RATED ▼
One does what one is; one becomes what one does.
- Robert Musil
Topic: Philosophical
NOT YET RATED ▼
The selfish man suffers more from his selfishness than he from whom that selfishness withholds some important benefit.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The Portable Emerson
Topic: Philosophical
NOT YET RATED ▼
God created philosophy for all the intellects that got bored of hearing the same bible stories every Sunday.
Topic: Philosophical
NOT YET RATED ▼
Life is a complex
with real and imaginary parts
- Angela Suba Natarajan
From My Pen, On Life
Topic: Philosophical
NOT YET RATED ▼
At sunrise everything is luminous but not clear.
- Norman Maclean
A River Runs Through It and Other Stories
Topic: Philosophical
NOT YET RATED ▼
To the untutored sage, the concentration of population was the prolific mother of all evils, moral no less than physical. He argued that food is good, while surfeit kills; that love is good, but lust destroys; and not less dreaded than the pestilence following upon crowded and unsanitary dwellings was the loss of spiritual power inseparable from too close contact with one's fellow-men.
- Charles Alexander (Ohiyesa) Eastman
The Soul of the Indian
Topic: Philosophical
NOT YET RATED ▼
Communism is the final logic of the dehumanization of man.
Topic: Philosophical
NOT YET RATED ▼
Islam deals not only with what man must and must not do, but also with what he needs to know. In other words, Islam is both a way of acting and doing things and a way of knowing.
- Osman Bakar
Tawhid and Science
Topic: Philosophical
NOT YET RATED ▼
Every life has a destiny... the trick is to discover it before then end of your life. Otherwise, you will have too many regrets.
- Kevin J. Anderson
A Forest of Stars
Topic: Philosophical, Religion
NOT YET RATED ▼
Rien ne sert de courir il faut partir à point
- La Fontaine
The Fables of La Fontaine
Topic: Philosophical
NOT YET RATED ▼
History is a hermaphrodite with many distinguished lovers. We are neither mysteries nor strangers but the living breath of revelation made flesh by the unrestrained desires of a free and universal love. Universal me. Universal you.”
--from Past Present and Future are One
- Aberjhani
Elemental: The Power of Illuminated Love
Topic: Philosophical
NOT YET RATED ▼
Perhaps in his loneliness he had acquired the silent conviction that he was 'the last', the one, the only. And, being the last, he ceased to be Benjamin, becoming Israel. And upon his heart had settled the history of five thousand years, no longer remote, but become as the history of his own lifetime. His "I" was the converse of the imperial "We.
- Walter M. Miller Jr.
A Canticle for Leibowitz
Topic: Philosophical
NOT YET RATED ▼
Let no one delay the study of philosophy while young nor weary of it when old.
Topic: Philosophical
NOT YET RATED ▼
Up to now in the West none of the apostles of stabilization and petrification has succeeded in wiping out the individuals' innate disposition to think and to apply to all problems the yardstick of reason. This alone, and no more, history and philosophy can assert in dealing with doctrines that claim to know exactly what the future has in store for mankind.
- Ludwig von Mises
Theory and History: An Interpretation of Social and Economic Evolution
Topic: Philosophical
NOT YET RATED ▼
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
Topic: Philosophical
NOT YET RATED ▼
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
Topic: Philosophical
NOT YET RATED ▼
Different languages, the same thoughts; servant to thoughts and their masters.
- Dejan Stojanovic
The Sun Watches the Sun
Topic: Philosophical
NOT YET RATED ▼
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
Topic: Philosophical
NOT YET RATED ▼
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
Topic: Philosophical, Religion
NOT YET RATED ▼
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
Topic: Philosophical, Religion
NOT YET RATED ▼
Those who make conversations impossible, make escalation inevitable.
Topic: Philosophical, Relationships
NOT YET RATED ▼
The good which every man, who follows after virtue, desires for himself he will also desire for other men...
Topic: Philosophical
NOT YET RATED ▼
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
Topic: Philosophical
NOT YET RATED ▼
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
Topic: Philosophical
NOT YET RATED ▼
One does what one is; one becomes what one does.
- Robert Musil
Topic: Philosophical
NOT YET RATED ▼
The selfish man suffers more from his selfishness than he from whom that selfishness withholds some important benefit.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The Portable Emerson
Topic: Philosophical
NOT YET RATED ▼
God created philosophy for all the intellects that got bored of hearing the same bible stories every Sunday.
Topic: Philosophical
NOT YET RATED ▼
Life is a complex
with real and imaginary parts
- Angela Suba Natarajan
From My Pen, On Life
Topic: Philosophical
NOT YET RATED ▼
At sunrise everything is luminous but not clear.
- Norman Maclean
A River Runs Through It and Other Stories
Topic: Philosophical
NOT YET RATED ▼
To the untutored sage, the concentration of population was the prolific mother of all evils, moral no less than physical. He argued that food is good, while surfeit kills; that love is good, but lust destroys; and not less dreaded than the pestilence following upon crowded and unsanitary dwellings was the loss of spiritual power inseparable from too close contact with one's fellow-men.
- Charles Alexander (Ohiyesa) Eastman
The Soul of the Indian
Topic: Philosophical
NOT YET RATED ▼
Communism is the final logic of the dehumanization of man.
Topic: Philosophical
NOT YET RATED ▼
Islam deals not only with what man must and must not do, but also with what he needs to know. In other words, Islam is both a way of acting and doing things and a way of knowing.
- Osman Bakar
Tawhid and Science
Topic: Philosophical
NOT YET RATED ▼
Every life has a destiny... the trick is to discover it before then end of your life. Otherwise, you will have too many regrets.
- Kevin J. Anderson
A Forest of Stars
Topic: Philosophical, Religion
NOT YET RATED ▼
Rien ne sert de courir il faut partir à point
- La Fontaine
The Fables of La Fontaine
Topic: Philosophical
NOT YET RATED ▼
History is a hermaphrodite with many distinguished lovers. We are neither mysteries nor strangers but the living breath of revelation made flesh by the unrestrained desires of a free and universal love. Universal me. Universal you.”
--from Past Present and Future are One
- Aberjhani
Elemental: The Power of Illuminated Love
Topic: Philosophical
NOT YET RATED ▼
Perhaps in his loneliness he had acquired the silent conviction that he was 'the last', the one, the only. And, being the last, he ceased to be Benjamin, becoming Israel. And upon his heart had settled the history of five thousand years, no longer remote, but become as the history of his own lifetime. His "I" was the converse of the imperial "We.
- Walter M. Miller Jr.
A Canticle for Leibowitz
Topic: Philosophical
NOT YET RATED ▼
Let no one delay the study of philosophy while young nor weary of it when old.
Topic: Philosophical
NOT YET RATED ▼
Up to now in the West none of the apostles of stabilization and petrification has succeeded in wiping out the individuals' innate disposition to think and to apply to all problems the yardstick of reason. This alone, and no more, history and philosophy can assert in dealing with doctrines that claim to know exactly what the future has in store for mankind.
- Ludwig von Mises
Theory and History: An Interpretation of Social and Economic Evolution
Topic: Philosophical
NOT YET RATED ▼
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
Topic: Philosophical
NOT YET RATED ▼
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
Topic: Philosophical
NOT YET RATED ▼
Different languages, the same thoughts; servant to thoughts and their masters.
- Dejan Stojanovic
The Sun Watches the Sun
Topic: Philosophical
NOT YET RATED ▼
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
Topic: Philosophical
NOT YET RATED ▼
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
Topic: Philosophical, Religion
NOT YET RATED ▼
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
Topic: Philosophical, Religion
NOT YET RATED ▼
Those who make conversations impossible, make escalation inevitable.
Topic: Philosophical, Relationships
NOT YET RATED ▼
The good which every man, who follows after virtue, desires for himself he will also desire for other men...
Topic: Philosophical
NOT YET RATED ▼
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
Topic: Philosophical
NOT YET RATED ▼
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
Topic: Philosophical
NOT YET RATED ▼
One does what one is; one becomes what one does.
- Robert Musil
Topic: Philosophical
NOT YET RATED ▼
The selfish man suffers more from his selfishness than he from whom that selfishness withholds some important benefit.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The Portable Emerson
Topic: Philosophical
NOT YET RATED ▼
God created philosophy for all the intellects that got bored of hearing the same bible stories every Sunday.
Topic: Philosophical
NOT YET RATED ▼
Life is a complex
with real and imaginary parts
- Angela Suba Natarajan
From My Pen, On Life
Topic: Philosophical
NOT YET RATED ▼
At sunrise everything is luminous but not clear.
- Norman Maclean
A River Runs Through It and Other Stories
Topic: Philosophical
NOT YET RATED ▼
To the untutored sage, the concentration of population was the prolific mother of all evils, moral no less than physical. He argued that food is good, while surfeit kills; that love is good, but lust destroys; and not less dreaded than the pestilence following upon crowded and unsanitary dwellings was the loss of spiritual power inseparable from too close contact with one's fellow-men.
- Charles Alexander (Ohiyesa) Eastman
The Soul of the Indian
Topic: Philosophical
NOT YET RATED ▼
Communism is the final logic of the dehumanization of man.
Topic: Philosophical
NOT YET RATED ▼
Islam deals not only with what man must and must not do, but also with what he needs to know. In other words, Islam is both a way of acting and doing things and a way of knowing.
- Osman Bakar
Tawhid and Science
Topic: Philosophical
NOT YET RATED ▼
Every life has a destiny... the trick is to discover it before then end of your life. Otherwise, you will have too many regrets.
- Kevin J. Anderson
A Forest of Stars
Topic: Philosophical, Religion
NOT YET RATED ▼
Rien ne sert de courir il faut partir à point
- La Fontaine
The Fables of La Fontaine
Topic: Philosophical
NOT YET RATED ▼
History is a hermaphrodite with many distinguished lovers. We are neither mysteries nor strangers but the living breath of revelation made flesh by the unrestrained desires of a free and universal love. Universal me. Universal you.”
--from Past Present and Future are One
- Aberjhani
Elemental: The Power of Illuminated Love
Topic: Philosophical
NOT YET RATED ▼
Perhaps in his loneliness he had acquired the silent conviction that he was 'the last', the one, the only. And, being the last, he ceased to be Benjamin, becoming Israel. And upon his heart had settled the history of five thousand years, no longer remote, but become as the history of his own lifetime. His "I" was the converse of the imperial "We.
- Walter M. Miller Jr.
A Canticle for Leibowitz
Topic: Philosophical
NOT YET RATED ▼
Let no one delay the study of philosophy while young nor weary of it when old.
Topic: Philosophical
NOT YET RATED ▼
Up to now in the West none of the apostles of stabilization and petrification has succeeded in wiping out the individuals' innate disposition to think and to apply to all problems the yardstick of reason. This alone, and no more, history and philosophy can assert in dealing with doctrines that claim to know exactly what the future has in store for mankind.
- Ludwig von Mises
Theory and History: An Interpretation of Social and Economic Evolution
Topic: Philosophical
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