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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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NOT YET RATED ▼
During a conversation, listening is as powerful as loving.
- Amit Kalantri
Wealth of Words
Topic: Motivational, Philosophical
NOT YET RATED ▼
In meetings philosophy might work,
on the field practicality works.
Topic: Motivational, Philosophical
NOT YET RATED ▼
I don’t know what’s worse: to not know what you are and be happy, or to become what you’ve always wanted to be, and feel alone.
- Daniel Keyes
Flowers for Algernon
Topic: Happiness, Philosophical
NOT YET RATED ▼
People who fit don’t seek. The seekers are those that don’t fit.
Topic: Happiness, Life, Philosophical, Religion
NOT YET RATED ▼
True happiness, we are told, consists in getting out of one's self; but the point is not only to get out - you must stay out; and to stay out you must have some absorbing errand.
- Henry James
Roderick Hudson
Topic: Happiness, Philosophical
NOT YET RATED ▼
It's good to see the snakes revealing themselves. They weren't actually hidden at all. People hide behind the masks, but eventually you see them for who they truly are.
Topic: Happiness, Hope, Philosophical
NOT YET RATED ▼
Peace is a child's beautiful smile and a flower's freshness
Peace is an inner perception of joyfulness and happiness.
Topic: Happiness, Philosophical
NOT YET RATED ▼
Many married women who have deliberately spurned the "hour" of childbearing are unhappy and frustrated. They never discovered the joys of marriage because they refused to surrender to the obligation of their state. In saving themselves, they lost themselves!
- Fulton J. Sheen
Seven Words of Jesus and Mary: Lessons from Cana and Calvary
Topic: Happiness, Philosophical, Religion
NOT YET RATED ▼
Pain may be the only reality but if mankind had any sense it would pursue the delusion called happiness. All the philosophers and poets who tell us that pain and suffering have a place and purpose in the cosmic order of things are welcome to them. They are frauds. We justify pain because we do not know what to make of it, nor do we have any choice but to bear it. Happiness alone can make us momentarily larger than ourselves.
- Kiran Nagarkar
Topic: Happiness, Philosophical
NOT YET RATED ▼
Entertainment is temporary happiness, but the real happiness is permanent entertainment.
Topic: Happiness, Motivational, Philosophical
NOT YET RATED ▼
Since it is through the possession of happiness that people become happy, and since happiness is in fact divinity, it is clear that it is through the possession of divinity that they become happy. But by the same logic as men become just through the possession of justice, or wise through the possession of wisdom, so those who possess divinity necessarily become divine. Each happy individual is therefore divine. While only God is so by nature, as many as you like may become so by participation.
Topic: Happiness, Philosophical
NOT YET RATED ▼
To all of you here, I wish you a very Happy New Year and I look forward to seeing you in 2022. All the best.
Topic: Happiness, Philosophical
NOT YET RATED ▼
Daily dance uplift the soul to spiritual realms.
- Lailah Gifty Akita
Pearls of Wisdom: Great mind
Topic: Happiness, Philosophical
NOT YET RATED ▼
Hold fast to dreams,
For if dreams die
Life is a broken-winged bird,
That cannot fly.
Topic: Hope, Philosophical
NOT YET RATED ▼
The only way we'll get freedom for ourselves is to identify ourselves with every oppressed people in the world. We are blood brothers to the people of Brazil, Venezuela, Haiti, Cuba -- yes Cuba too.
Topic: Hope, Philosophical
NOT YET RATED ▼
Unity is a great thing and a great slogan. But what the workers’ cause needs is the unity of Marxists, not unity between Marxists, and opponents and distorters of Marxism.
- Vladimir Lenin
Topic: Hope, Philosophical
NOT YET RATED ▼
That is why enemies can be great motivators. They serve as fuel for your fire.
- Simon Zingerman
We All Need Heroes: Stories of the Brave and Foolish
Topic: Hope, Philosophical, Success
NOT YET RATED ▼
Staring at a world too horrible to comprehend, believing -- by dint of ignorance and innocence -- that beneath this unbearable contract of guilt and blame there is always an older contract that may bind and release in a more salutary way.
- Gregory Maguire
Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West
Topic: Hope, Philosophical
NOT YET RATED ▼
A woman has to live her life, or live to repent not having lived it.
- D.H. Lawrence
Lady Chatterley's Lover
Topic: Life, Philosophical
NOT YET RATED ▼
We must be willing to let go of the life we planned so as to have the life that is waiting for us.
Topic: Life, Philosophical
NOT YET RATED ▼
Tiger got to hunt, bird got to fly;
Man got to sit and wonder 'why, why, why?'
Tiger got to sleep, bird got to land;
Man got to tell himself he understand.
- Kurt Vonnegut
Cat’s Cradle
Topic: Life, Philosophical
NOT YET RATED ▼
The life of the enemy . Whoever lives for the sake of combating an enemy has an interest in the enemy's staying alive.
- Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
Topic: Life, Philosophical
NOT YET RATED ▼
It seems to me that one ought to rejoice in the fact of death-- ought to decide, indeed, to earn one's death by confronting with passion the conundrum of life. One is responsible to life: It is the small beacon in that terrifying darkness from which we come and to which we shall return. One must negotiate this passage as nobly as possible, for the sake of those who are coming after us.
- James Baldwin
The Fire Next Time
Topic: Death, Philosophical
NOT YET RATED ▼
Death as the destruction of all things no longer had meaning when life was revealed to be a fatuous sequence of empty words, the hollow jingle of a jester’s cap and bells.
- Michel Foucault
Madness and Civilization: A History of Insanity in the Age of Reason
Topic: Death, Philosophical
NOT YET RATED ▼
During a conversation, listening is as powerful as loving.
- Amit Kalantri
Wealth of Words
Topic: Motivational, Philosophical
NOT YET RATED ▼
In meetings philosophy might work,
on the field practicality works.
Topic: Motivational, Philosophical
NOT YET RATED ▼
I don’t know what’s worse: to not know what you are and be happy, or to become what you’ve always wanted to be, and feel alone.
- Daniel Keyes
Flowers for Algernon
Topic: Happiness, Philosophical
NOT YET RATED ▼
People who fit don’t seek. The seekers are those that don’t fit.
Topic: Happiness, Life, Philosophical, Religion
NOT YET RATED ▼
True happiness, we are told, consists in getting out of one's self; but the point is not only to get out - you must stay out; and to stay out you must have some absorbing errand.
- Henry James
Roderick Hudson
Topic: Happiness, Philosophical
NOT YET RATED ▼
It's good to see the snakes revealing themselves. They weren't actually hidden at all. People hide behind the masks, but eventually you see them for who they truly are.
Topic: Happiness, Hope, Philosophical
NOT YET RATED ▼
Peace is a child's beautiful smile and a flower's freshness
Peace is an inner perception of joyfulness and happiness.
Topic: Happiness, Philosophical
NOT YET RATED ▼
Many married women who have deliberately spurned the "hour" of childbearing are unhappy and frustrated. They never discovered the joys of marriage because they refused to surrender to the obligation of their state. In saving themselves, they lost themselves!
- Fulton J. Sheen
Seven Words of Jesus and Mary: Lessons from Cana and Calvary
Topic: Happiness, Philosophical, Religion
NOT YET RATED ▼
Pain may be the only reality but if mankind had any sense it would pursue the delusion called happiness. All the philosophers and poets who tell us that pain and suffering have a place and purpose in the cosmic order of things are welcome to them. They are frauds. We justify pain because we do not know what to make of it, nor do we have any choice but to bear it. Happiness alone can make us momentarily larger than ourselves.
- Kiran Nagarkar
Topic: Happiness, Philosophical
NOT YET RATED ▼
Entertainment is temporary happiness, but the real happiness is permanent entertainment.
Topic: Happiness, Motivational, Philosophical
NOT YET RATED ▼
Since it is through the possession of happiness that people become happy, and since happiness is in fact divinity, it is clear that it is through the possession of divinity that they become happy. But by the same logic as men become just through the possession of justice, or wise through the possession of wisdom, so those who possess divinity necessarily become divine. Each happy individual is therefore divine. While only God is so by nature, as many as you like may become so by participation.
Topic: Happiness, Philosophical
NOT YET RATED ▼
To all of you here, I wish you a very Happy New Year and I look forward to seeing you in 2022. All the best.
Topic: Happiness, Philosophical
NOT YET RATED ▼
Daily dance uplift the soul to spiritual realms.
- Lailah Gifty Akita
Pearls of Wisdom: Great mind
Topic: Happiness, Philosophical
NOT YET RATED ▼
Hold fast to dreams,
For if dreams die
Life is a broken-winged bird,
That cannot fly.
Topic: Hope, Philosophical
NOT YET RATED ▼
The only way we'll get freedom for ourselves is to identify ourselves with every oppressed people in the world. We are blood brothers to the people of Brazil, Venezuela, Haiti, Cuba -- yes Cuba too.
Topic: Hope, Philosophical
NOT YET RATED ▼
Unity is a great thing and a great slogan. But what the workers’ cause needs is the unity of Marxists, not unity between Marxists, and opponents and distorters of Marxism.
- Vladimir Lenin
Topic: Hope, Philosophical
NOT YET RATED ▼
That is why enemies can be great motivators. They serve as fuel for your fire.
- Simon Zingerman
We All Need Heroes: Stories of the Brave and Foolish
Topic: Hope, Philosophical, Success
NOT YET RATED ▼
Staring at a world too horrible to comprehend, believing -- by dint of ignorance and innocence -- that beneath this unbearable contract of guilt and blame there is always an older contract that may bind and release in a more salutary way.
- Gregory Maguire
Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West
Topic: Hope, Philosophical
NOT YET RATED ▼
A woman has to live her life, or live to repent not having lived it.
- D.H. Lawrence
Lady Chatterley's Lover
Topic: Life, Philosophical
NOT YET RATED ▼
We must be willing to let go of the life we planned so as to have the life that is waiting for us.
Topic: Life, Philosophical
NOT YET RATED ▼
Tiger got to hunt, bird got to fly;
Man got to sit and wonder 'why, why, why?'
Tiger got to sleep, bird got to land;
Man got to tell himself he understand.
- Kurt Vonnegut
Cat’s Cradle
Topic: Life, Philosophical
NOT YET RATED ▼
The life of the enemy . Whoever lives for the sake of combating an enemy has an interest in the enemy's staying alive.
- Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
Topic: Life, Philosophical
NOT YET RATED ▼
It seems to me that one ought to rejoice in the fact of death-- ought to decide, indeed, to earn one's death by confronting with passion the conundrum of life. One is responsible to life: It is the small beacon in that terrifying darkness from which we come and to which we shall return. One must negotiate this passage as nobly as possible, for the sake of those who are coming after us.
- James Baldwin
The Fire Next Time
Topic: Death, Philosophical
NOT YET RATED ▼
Death as the destruction of all things no longer had meaning when life was revealed to be a fatuous sequence of empty words, the hollow jingle of a jester’s cap and bells.
- Michel Foucault
Madness and Civilization: A History of Insanity in the Age of Reason
Topic: Death, Philosophical
NOT YET RATED ▼
During a conversation, listening is as powerful as loving.
- Amit Kalantri
Wealth of Words
Topic: Motivational, Philosophical
NOT YET RATED ▼
In meetings philosophy might work,
on the field practicality works.
Topic: Motivational, Philosophical
NOT YET RATED ▼
I don’t know what’s worse: to not know what you are and be happy, or to become what you’ve always wanted to be, and feel alone.
- Daniel Keyes
Flowers for Algernon
Topic: Happiness, Philosophical
NOT YET RATED ▼
People who fit don’t seek. The seekers are those that don’t fit.
Topic: Happiness, Life, Philosophical, Religion
NOT YET RATED ▼
True happiness, we are told, consists in getting out of one's self; but the point is not only to get out - you must stay out; and to stay out you must have some absorbing errand.
- Henry James
Roderick Hudson
Topic: Happiness, Philosophical
NOT YET RATED ▼
It's good to see the snakes revealing themselves. They weren't actually hidden at all. People hide behind the masks, but eventually you see them for who they truly are.
Topic: Happiness, Hope, Philosophical
NOT YET RATED ▼
Peace is a child's beautiful smile and a flower's freshness
Peace is an inner perception of joyfulness and happiness.
Topic: Happiness, Philosophical
NOT YET RATED ▼
Many married women who have deliberately spurned the "hour" of childbearing are unhappy and frustrated. They never discovered the joys of marriage because they refused to surrender to the obligation of their state. In saving themselves, they lost themselves!
- Fulton J. Sheen
Seven Words of Jesus and Mary: Lessons from Cana and Calvary
Topic: Happiness, Philosophical, Religion
NOT YET RATED ▼
Pain may be the only reality but if mankind had any sense it would pursue the delusion called happiness. All the philosophers and poets who tell us that pain and suffering have a place and purpose in the cosmic order of things are welcome to them. They are frauds. We justify pain because we do not know what to make of it, nor do we have any choice but to bear it. Happiness alone can make us momentarily larger than ourselves.
- Kiran Nagarkar
Topic: Happiness, Philosophical
NOT YET RATED ▼
Entertainment is temporary happiness, but the real happiness is permanent entertainment.
Topic: Happiness, Motivational, Philosophical
NOT YET RATED ▼
Since it is through the possession of happiness that people become happy, and since happiness is in fact divinity, it is clear that it is through the possession of divinity that they become happy. But by the same logic as men become just through the possession of justice, or wise through the possession of wisdom, so those who possess divinity necessarily become divine. Each happy individual is therefore divine. While only God is so by nature, as many as you like may become so by participation.
Topic: Happiness, Philosophical
NOT YET RATED ▼
To all of you here, I wish you a very Happy New Year and I look forward to seeing you in 2022. All the best.
Topic: Happiness, Philosophical
NOT YET RATED ▼
Daily dance uplift the soul to spiritual realms.
- Lailah Gifty Akita
Pearls of Wisdom: Great mind
Topic: Happiness, Philosophical
NOT YET RATED ▼
Hold fast to dreams,
For if dreams die
Life is a broken-winged bird,
That cannot fly.
Topic: Hope, Philosophical
NOT YET RATED ▼
The only way we'll get freedom for ourselves is to identify ourselves with every oppressed people in the world. We are blood brothers to the people of Brazil, Venezuela, Haiti, Cuba -- yes Cuba too.
Topic: Hope, Philosophical
NOT YET RATED ▼
Unity is a great thing and a great slogan. But what the workers’ cause needs is the unity of Marxists, not unity between Marxists, and opponents and distorters of Marxism.
- Vladimir Lenin
Topic: Hope, Philosophical
NOT YET RATED ▼
That is why enemies can be great motivators. They serve as fuel for your fire.
- Simon Zingerman
We All Need Heroes: Stories of the Brave and Foolish
Topic: Hope, Philosophical, Success
NOT YET RATED ▼
Staring at a world too horrible to comprehend, believing -- by dint of ignorance and innocence -- that beneath this unbearable contract of guilt and blame there is always an older contract that may bind and release in a more salutary way.
- Gregory Maguire
Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West
Topic: Hope, Philosophical
NOT YET RATED ▼
A woman has to live her life, or live to repent not having lived it.
- D.H. Lawrence
Lady Chatterley's Lover
Topic: Life, Philosophical
NOT YET RATED ▼
We must be willing to let go of the life we planned so as to have the life that is waiting for us.
Topic: Life, Philosophical
NOT YET RATED ▼
Tiger got to hunt, bird got to fly;
Man got to sit and wonder 'why, why, why?'
Tiger got to sleep, bird got to land;
Man got to tell himself he understand.
- Kurt Vonnegut
Cat’s Cradle
Topic: Life, Philosophical
NOT YET RATED ▼
The life of the enemy . Whoever lives for the sake of combating an enemy has an interest in the enemy's staying alive.
- Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
Topic: Life, Philosophical
NOT YET RATED ▼
It seems to me that one ought to rejoice in the fact of death-- ought to decide, indeed, to earn one's death by confronting with passion the conundrum of life. One is responsible to life: It is the small beacon in that terrifying darkness from which we come and to which we shall return. One must negotiate this passage as nobly as possible, for the sake of those who are coming after us.
- James Baldwin
The Fire Next Time
Topic: Death, Philosophical
NOT YET RATED ▼
Death as the destruction of all things no longer had meaning when life was revealed to be a fatuous sequence of empty words, the hollow jingle of a jester’s cap and bells.
- Michel Foucault
Madness and Civilization: A History of Insanity in the Age of Reason
Topic: Death, Philosophical
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