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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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The freedom of an unscheduled afternoon brought confusion rather than joy. Julius had always been focused. When he was not seeing patients, other important projects and activities-writing, teaching, tennis, research-clamored for his attention. But today nothing seemed important. He suspected that nothing had ever been important, that his mind had arbitrarily imbued projects with importance and then cunningly covered its traces. Today he saw through the ruse of a lifetime. Today there was nothing important to do, and he ambled aimlessly down Union Street.
- Irvin D. Yalom
The Schopenhauer Cure
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Topic: Philosophical
Be in limits, life will never limit you.
- M.H. Rakib
The Cavalier
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Topic: Philosophical
In politics, the pen is at its heaviest because it is weighed down by the collective responsibility it holds towards its people and their future in the eyes of the world.
- Aysha Taryam
The Opposite of Indifference: A Collection of Commentaries
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Topic: Philosophical
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Honor has not to be won; it must only not be lost.
- Arthur Schopenhauer
The Wisdom of Life
Topic: Philosophical
Hence the great irony: Hayek, one of the greatest champions of individual liberty and economic freedom the world has ever known, believed that knowledge was communal. Dewey, the champion of socialism and collectivism, believed that knowledge was individual. Hayek's is a philosophy that treats individuals as the best judges of their own self-interests, which in turn yield staggering communal cooperation. Dewey's was the philosophy of a giant, Monty Pythonesque crowd shouting on cue: "We're All Individuals!
- Jonah Goldberg
The Tyranny of Clichés: How Liberals Cheat in the War of Ideas
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Topic: Philosophical
Putting food under lock and key was one of the great innovations of your culture. No other culture in history has ever put food under lock and key - and putting it there is the cornerstone of your economy.[...] Because if the food wasn't under lock and key, Julie, who would work?
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Topic: Philosophical
XXX
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If that which we have found is the corruption of solitude, then what can men wish for save corruption? If this is the great evil of being alone, than what is good and what is evil?
Topic: Philosophical
Great understanding is broad and unhurried; little understanding is cramped and busy. Great words are clear and limpid; little words are shrill and quarrelsome.
- Chuang Chou
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Topic: Philosophical
The Purpose of Philosophy is to fall in Love. To strip the world of all its clothes, and fall in Love with it as it stand before you completely naked.
- Ilyas Kassam
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Topic: Philosophical
There is nothing more wonderful than a book. It may be a message to us from the dead, from human souls we never saw who lived perhaps thousands of miles away, and yet these little sheets of paper speak to us, arouse us, teach us, open our hearts and in turn open their hearts to us like brothers. Without books, God is silent, justice dormant, philosophy lame.
- Charles Kingsley
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Topic: Philosophical
XXX
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Hence the sterile, uninspiring futility of a great many theoretical discussions of ethics, and the resentment which many people feel towards such discussions: moral principles remain in their minds as floating abstractions, offering them a goal they cannot grasp and demanding that they reshape their souls in its image, thus leaving them with a burden of undefinable moral guilt.
- Ayn Rand
The Romantic Manifesto
Topic: Philosophical
It is the philosophers, theologians, and evangelists who are said to be filled with pride and bigotry due to the strong convictions that they represent. On the contrary, teachings can be either taken or dismissed; whereas voting is the only thing the average person can do to force everyone to live how they would prefer. A simple vote is among the largest yet most acceptable forms of bigotry, and that is because people play the card only when they feel that in doing so it conveniences themselves.
- Criss Jami
Killosophy
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Philosophical
We belittle what we cannot bear. We make figments out of fundamentals, all in the name of preserving our own peculiar fancies. The best way to secure one's own deception is to accuse others of deceit.
- R. Scott Bakker
The White Luck Warrior
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Philosophical
The ruinous abdication by philosophy of its rightful domain is the consequence of the oblivion of philosophers to a great insight first beheld clearly by Socrates and re-affirmed by Kant as by no other philosopher. Science, concerned solely and exclusively with objective existents, cannot give answers to questions about meanings and values. Only ideas engendered by the mind and to be found nowhere but in the mind (Socrates), only the pure transcendental forms supplied by reason (Kant), can secure the ideals and values and put us in touch with the realities that constitute our moral and spiritual life. Twenty-four centuries after Socrates, two centuries after Kant, we badly need to re-learn the lesson.
- D. R. Khashaba
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Philosophical
Call it "a wonder" or "a mystery" and you have an excuse to never try understanding it - an excuse to not take responsibility for it. People knew about love no more than they knew about Science, but at least most did not jump into Science headstrong, with the hope that they would figure it out as they went, or that some "mysterious" inborn trait would take care of it.
- Lynna Merrill
The Seekers of Fire
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Philosophical
Historically, philosophy does not have an impressive track record of answering questions about natural world in a decisive manner.
- Christof Koch
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Philosophical
Das Spiel ist der Inbegriff demokratischer Lebensart. Es ist die letzt uns verbliebene Seinsform. Der Spieltrieb ersetzt die Religiosität, beherrscht die Börse, die Politik, die Gerichtssäle, die Pressewelt, und er ist es, der uns seit Gottes Tod mental am Leben hält.
- Juli Zeh
Spieltrieb
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Philosophical, Religion
Rousseau identified reason as the disease for which it pretended to be the cure.
- Robert Zaretsky
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Philosophical
Art is something we create; science is something we discover
- Viacheslav Prykhodko
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Philosophical
To be alive is to be open in some way, to take in and to release. To pass through life and to be passed through by life.
- Alyssa Skyes
Two Seconds of Eternity: An Experience in Another Dimension
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Philosophical
What is love? He is neither mortal nor immortal, but a mean between the two. He is a great spirit (daimon) and like all spirits he is intermediate between the divine and the mortal. He is the mediator who spans the chasm which divides men and gods, and therefore in him all is bound together. — Diotima (quoted by Socrates)
- Rollo May
Love and Will
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Topic: Philosophical
The reckless application of technology, harnessed to greed, degrades and destroys the ecosystems in which the energies of the elements are maintained in exquisite balance. Since the elements constitute us, we are also being degraded in the process. We are engaged in an ongoing assault on the planetary elements, the decimation of species, and the relentless suicidal degradation of our own habitats. In short, the situation can be called ecocide. Humankind is at war with nature.
- Ralph Metzner
Green Psychology: Transforming our Relationship to the Earth
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Philosophical
Offering tea is a gesture of respect. Accepting it is a sign of trust. Even the smallest exchange can sweep away years of silence.
- Zsolt Bugarszki
Icarus
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Philosophical
Love will fly you by in a flash of light
- Yuri Gilibloie
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Philosophical
The freedom of an unscheduled afternoon brought confusion rather than joy. Julius had always been focused. When he was not seeing patients, other important projects and activities-writing, teaching, tennis, research-clamored for his attention. But today nothing seemed important. He suspected that nothing had ever been important, that his mind had arbitrarily imbued projects with importance and then cunningly covered its traces. Today he saw through the ruse of a lifetime. Today there was nothing important to do, and he ambled aimlessly down Union Street.
- Irvin D. Yalom
The Schopenhauer Cure
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Philosophical
Be in limits, life will never limit you.
- M.H. Rakib
The Cavalier
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Philosophical
In politics, the pen is at its heaviest because it is weighed down by the collective responsibility it holds towards its people and their future in the eyes of the world.
- Aysha Taryam
The Opposite of Indifference: A Collection of Commentaries
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Philosophical
XXX
NOT YET RATING ▼
Honor has not to be won; it must only not be lost.
- Arthur Schopenhauer
The Wisdom of Life
Topic: Philosophical
Hence the great irony: Hayek, one of the greatest champions of individual liberty and economic freedom the world has ever known, believed that knowledge was communal. Dewey, the champion of socialism and collectivism, believed that knowledge was individual. Hayek's is a philosophy that treats individuals as the best judges of their own self-interests, which in turn yield staggering communal cooperation. Dewey's was the philosophy of a giant, Monty Pythonesque crowd shouting on cue: "We're All Individuals!
- Jonah Goldberg
The Tyranny of Clichés: How Liberals Cheat in the War of Ideas
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Philosophical
Putting food under lock and key was one of the great innovations of your culture. No other culture in history has ever put food under lock and key - and putting it there is the cornerstone of your economy.[...] Because if the food wasn't under lock and key, Julie, who would work?
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Philosophical
XXX
NOT YET RATING ▼
If that which we have found is the corruption of solitude, then what can men wish for save corruption? If this is the great evil of being alone, than what is good and what is evil?
Topic: Philosophical
Great understanding is broad and unhurried; little understanding is cramped and busy. Great words are clear and limpid; little words are shrill and quarrelsome.
- Chuang Chou
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Philosophical
The Purpose of Philosophy is to fall in Love. To strip the world of all its clothes, and fall in Love with it as it stand before you completely naked.
- Ilyas Kassam
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Philosophical
There is nothing more wonderful than a book. It may be a message to us from the dead, from human souls we never saw who lived perhaps thousands of miles away, and yet these little sheets of paper speak to us, arouse us, teach us, open our hearts and in turn open their hearts to us like brothers. Without books, God is silent, justice dormant, philosophy lame.
- Charles Kingsley
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Philosophical
XXX
NOT YET RATING ▼
Hence the sterile, uninspiring futility of a great many theoretical discussions of ethics, and the resentment which many people feel towards such discussions: moral principles remain in their minds as floating abstractions, offering them a goal they cannot grasp and demanding that they reshape their souls in its image, thus leaving them with a burden of undefinable moral guilt.
- Ayn Rand
The Romantic Manifesto
Topic: Philosophical
It is the philosophers, theologians, and evangelists who are said to be filled with pride and bigotry due to the strong convictions that they represent. On the contrary, teachings can be either taken or dismissed; whereas voting is the only thing the average person can do to force everyone to live how they would prefer. A simple vote is among the largest yet most acceptable forms of bigotry, and that is because people play the card only when they feel that in doing so it conveniences themselves.
- Criss Jami
Killosophy
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Philosophical
We belittle what we cannot bear. We make figments out of fundamentals, all in the name of preserving our own peculiar fancies. The best way to secure one's own deception is to accuse others of deceit.
- R. Scott Bakker
The White Luck Warrior
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Philosophical
The ruinous abdication by philosophy of its rightful domain is the consequence of the oblivion of philosophers to a great insight first beheld clearly by Socrates and re-affirmed by Kant as by no other philosopher. Science, concerned solely and exclusively with objective existents, cannot give answers to questions about meanings and values. Only ideas engendered by the mind and to be found nowhere but in the mind (Socrates), only the pure transcendental forms supplied by reason (Kant), can secure the ideals and values and put us in touch with the realities that constitute our moral and spiritual life. Twenty-four centuries after Socrates, two centuries after Kant, we badly need to re-learn the lesson.
- D. R. Khashaba
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Philosophical
Call it "a wonder" or "a mystery" and you have an excuse to never try understanding it - an excuse to not take responsibility for it. People knew about love no more than they knew about Science, but at least most did not jump into Science headstrong, with the hope that they would figure it out as they went, or that some "mysterious" inborn trait would take care of it.
- Lynna Merrill
The Seekers of Fire
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Philosophical
Historically, philosophy does not have an impressive track record of answering questions about natural world in a decisive manner.
- Christof Koch
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Philosophical
Das Spiel ist der Inbegriff demokratischer Lebensart. Es ist die letzt uns verbliebene Seinsform. Der Spieltrieb ersetzt die Religiosität, beherrscht die Börse, die Politik, die Gerichtssäle, die Pressewelt, und er ist es, der uns seit Gottes Tod mental am Leben hält.
- Juli Zeh
Spieltrieb
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Philosophical, Religion
Rousseau identified reason as the disease for which it pretended to be the cure.
- Robert Zaretsky
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Philosophical
Art is something we create; science is something we discover
- Viacheslav Prykhodko
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Philosophical
To be alive is to be open in some way, to take in and to release. To pass through life and to be passed through by life.
- Alyssa Skyes
Two Seconds of Eternity: An Experience in Another Dimension
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Philosophical
What is love? He is neither mortal nor immortal, but a mean between the two. He is a great spirit (daimon) and like all spirits he is intermediate between the divine and the mortal. He is the mediator who spans the chasm which divides men and gods, and therefore in him all is bound together. — Diotima (quoted by Socrates)
- Rollo May
Love and Will
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Philosophical
The reckless application of technology, harnessed to greed, degrades and destroys the ecosystems in which the energies of the elements are maintained in exquisite balance. Since the elements constitute us, we are also being degraded in the process. We are engaged in an ongoing assault on the planetary elements, the decimation of species, and the relentless suicidal degradation of our own habitats. In short, the situation can be called ecocide. Humankind is at war with nature.
- Ralph Metzner
Green Psychology: Transforming our Relationship to the Earth
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Philosophical
Offering tea is a gesture of respect. Accepting it is a sign of trust. Even the smallest exchange can sweep away years of silence.
- Zsolt Bugarszki
Icarus
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Philosophical
Love will fly you by in a flash of light
- Yuri Gilibloie
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Philosophical
The freedom of an unscheduled afternoon brought confusion rather than joy. Julius had always been focused. When he was not seeing patients, other important projects and activities-writing, teaching, tennis, research-clamored for his attention. But today nothing seemed important. He suspected that nothing had ever been important, that his mind had arbitrarily imbued projects with importance and then cunningly covered its traces. Today he saw through the ruse of a lifetime. Today there was nothing important to do, and he ambled aimlessly down Union Street.
- Irvin D. Yalom
The Schopenhauer Cure
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Philosophical
Be in limits, life will never limit you.
- M.H. Rakib
The Cavalier
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Philosophical
In politics, the pen is at its heaviest because it is weighed down by the collective responsibility it holds towards its people and their future in the eyes of the world.
- Aysha Taryam
The Opposite of Indifference: A Collection of Commentaries
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Philosophical
XXX
NOT YET RATING ▼
Honor has not to be won; it must only not be lost.
- Arthur Schopenhauer
The Wisdom of Life
Topic: Philosophical
Hence the great irony: Hayek, one of the greatest champions of individual liberty and economic freedom the world has ever known, believed that knowledge was communal. Dewey, the champion of socialism and collectivism, believed that knowledge was individual. Hayek's is a philosophy that treats individuals as the best judges of their own self-interests, which in turn yield staggering communal cooperation. Dewey's was the philosophy of a giant, Monty Pythonesque crowd shouting on cue: "We're All Individuals!
- Jonah Goldberg
The Tyranny of Clichés: How Liberals Cheat in the War of Ideas
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Philosophical
Putting food under lock and key was one of the great innovations of your culture. No other culture in history has ever put food under lock and key - and putting it there is the cornerstone of your economy.[...] Because if the food wasn't under lock and key, Julie, who would work?
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Philosophical
XXX
NOT YET RATING ▼
If that which we have found is the corruption of solitude, then what can men wish for save corruption? If this is the great evil of being alone, than what is good and what is evil?
Topic: Philosophical
Great understanding is broad and unhurried; little understanding is cramped and busy. Great words are clear and limpid; little words are shrill and quarrelsome.
- Chuang Chou
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Philosophical
The Purpose of Philosophy is to fall in Love. To strip the world of all its clothes, and fall in Love with it as it stand before you completely naked.
- Ilyas Kassam
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Philosophical
There is nothing more wonderful than a book. It may be a message to us from the dead, from human souls we never saw who lived perhaps thousands of miles away, and yet these little sheets of paper speak to us, arouse us, teach us, open our hearts and in turn open their hearts to us like brothers. Without books, God is silent, justice dormant, philosophy lame.
- Charles Kingsley
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Philosophical
XXX
NOT YET RATING ▼
Hence the sterile, uninspiring futility of a great many theoretical discussions of ethics, and the resentment which many people feel towards such discussions: moral principles remain in their minds as floating abstractions, offering them a goal they cannot grasp and demanding that they reshape their souls in its image, thus leaving them with a burden of undefinable moral guilt.
- Ayn Rand
The Romantic Manifesto
Topic: Philosophical
It is the philosophers, theologians, and evangelists who are said to be filled with pride and bigotry due to the strong convictions that they represent. On the contrary, teachings can be either taken or dismissed; whereas voting is the only thing the average person can do to force everyone to live how they would prefer. A simple vote is among the largest yet most acceptable forms of bigotry, and that is because people play the card only when they feel that in doing so it conveniences themselves.
- Criss Jami
Killosophy
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Philosophical
We belittle what we cannot bear. We make figments out of fundamentals, all in the name of preserving our own peculiar fancies. The best way to secure one's own deception is to accuse others of deceit.
- R. Scott Bakker
The White Luck Warrior
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Philosophical
The ruinous abdication by philosophy of its rightful domain is the consequence of the oblivion of philosophers to a great insight first beheld clearly by Socrates and re-affirmed by Kant as by no other philosopher. Science, concerned solely and exclusively with objective existents, cannot give answers to questions about meanings and values. Only ideas engendered by the mind and to be found nowhere but in the mind (Socrates), only the pure transcendental forms supplied by reason (Kant), can secure the ideals and values and put us in touch with the realities that constitute our moral and spiritual life. Twenty-four centuries after Socrates, two centuries after Kant, we badly need to re-learn the lesson.
- D. R. Khashaba
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Philosophical
Call it "a wonder" or "a mystery" and you have an excuse to never try understanding it - an excuse to not take responsibility for it. People knew about love no more than they knew about Science, but at least most did not jump into Science headstrong, with the hope that they would figure it out as they went, or that some "mysterious" inborn trait would take care of it.
- Lynna Merrill
The Seekers of Fire
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Philosophical
Historically, philosophy does not have an impressive track record of answering questions about natural world in a decisive manner.
- Christof Koch
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Philosophical
Das Spiel ist der Inbegriff demokratischer Lebensart. Es ist die letzt uns verbliebene Seinsform. Der Spieltrieb ersetzt die Religiosität, beherrscht die Börse, die Politik, die Gerichtssäle, die Pressewelt, und er ist es, der uns seit Gottes Tod mental am Leben hält.
- Juli Zeh
Spieltrieb
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Philosophical, Religion
Rousseau identified reason as the disease for which it pretended to be the cure.
- Robert Zaretsky
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Philosophical
Art is something we create; science is something we discover
- Viacheslav Prykhodko
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Philosophical
To be alive is to be open in some way, to take in and to release. To pass through life and to be passed through by life.
- Alyssa Skyes
Two Seconds of Eternity: An Experience in Another Dimension
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Philosophical
What is love? He is neither mortal nor immortal, but a mean between the two. He is a great spirit (daimon) and like all spirits he is intermediate between the divine and the mortal. He is the mediator who spans the chasm which divides men and gods, and therefore in him all is bound together. — Diotima (quoted by Socrates)
- Rollo May
Love and Will
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Philosophical
The reckless application of technology, harnessed to greed, degrades and destroys the ecosystems in which the energies of the elements are maintained in exquisite balance. Since the elements constitute us, we are also being degraded in the process. We are engaged in an ongoing assault on the planetary elements, the decimation of species, and the relentless suicidal degradation of our own habitats. In short, the situation can be called ecocide. Humankind is at war with nature.
- Ralph Metzner
Green Psychology: Transforming our Relationship to the Earth
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Philosophical
Offering tea is a gesture of respect. Accepting it is a sign of trust. Even the smallest exchange can sweep away years of silence.
- Zsolt Bugarszki
Icarus
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Philosophical
Love will fly you by in a flash of light
- Yuri Gilibloie
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Philosophical
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