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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 first and most important thing an individual can do is to become an individual again, decontrol himself, train himself as to what is going on and win back as much independent ground for himself as possible
Topic: Philosophical
Topic: Philosophical

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Even a soul submerged in sleep
is hard at work and helps
make something of the world.
- Heraclitus
Fragments
Topic: Philosophical
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It is foolish and wrong to mourn the men who died. Rather, we should thank God that such men lived.
- George S. Patton Jr.
Topic: Philosophical
Topic: Philosophical

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One must wait until the evening to see how splendid the day has been.
Topic: Philosophical
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A bridge of silver wings stretches from the dead ashes of an unforgiving nightmare
to the jeweled vision of a life started anew.
- Aberjhani
Journey through the Power of the Rainbow: Quotations from a Life Made Out of Poetry
Topic: Philosophical
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What we have forgotten is that thoughts and words are conventions, and that it is fatal to take conventions too seriously. A convention is a social convenience, as, for example, money ... but it is absurd to take money too seriously, to confuse it with real wealth ... In somewhat the same way, thoughts, ideas and words are "coins" for real things.
- Alan Wilson Watts
The Wisdom of Insecurity: A Message for an Age of Anxiety
Topic: Philosophical
Topic: Philosophical
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It is clear that the individual who persecutes a man, his brother, because he is not of the same opinion, is a monster.
Topic: Philosophical
...an optimistic mind-set finds dozens of possible solutions for every problem that the pessimist regards as incurable.
- Robert Anton Wilson
Cosmic Trigger: Die letzten Geheimnisse der Illuminaten oder An den Grenzen des erweiterten Bewusstseins
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Topic: Philosophical
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To learn is not to know; there are the learners and the learned. Memory makes the one, philosophy the others.
- Alexandre Dumas
The Count of Monte Cristo
Topic: Philosophical
Topic: Philosophical
Nothing in the world is permanent, and we’re foolish when we ask anything to last, but surely we’re still more foolish not to take delight in it while we have it. If change is of the essence of existence one would have thought it only sensible to make it the premise of our philosophy.
- W. Somerset Maugham
The Razor’s Edge
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Topic: Philosophical
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I am sitting with a philosopher in the garden; he says again and again 'I know that that’s a tree', pointing to a tree that is near us. Someone else arrives and hears this, and I tell him: 'This fellow isn’t insane. We are only doing philosophy.
- Ludwig Wittgenstein
On Certainty
Topic: Philosophical
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The map is not the territory.
- Alfred Korzybski
Topic: Philosophical
Topic: Philosophical
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Dreams have only one owner at a time. That's why dreamers are lonely.
Topic: Philosophical
Topic: Philosophical
Maybe that's it, [...] [w]ith what you were talking about before. The world being broken. Maybe it isn't that we're supposed to find the pieces and put them back together. Maybe we're the pieces." [...] "Maybe [...] what we're supposed to do is come together. That's how we stop the breaking.
- David Levithan
Nick & Norah's Infinite Playlist
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Topic: Philosophical
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Most of what passes for legitimate entertainment is inferior or foolish and only caters to or exploits people's weaknesses. Avoid being one of the mob who indulges in such pastimes. Your life is too short and you have important things to do. Be discriminating about what images and ideas you permit into your mind. If you yourself don't choose what thoughts and images you expose yourself to, someone else will, and their motives may not be the highest. It is the easiest thing in the world to slide imperceptibly into vulgarity. But there's no need for that to happen if you determine not to waste your time and attention on mindless pap.
- Epictetus
The Art of Living: The Classical Manual on Virtue, Happiness and Effectiveness
Topic: Philosophical
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To ridicule philosophy is really to philosophize.
Topic: Philosophical
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when a language dies, a way of understanding the world dies with it, a way of looking at the world.
- Steiner G
Topic: Philosophical
Topic: Philosophical
If you know that I am an unbeliever, then you know me better than I do myself. I may be an unbeliever, but I am an unbeliever who has a nostalgia for a belief.
- Pier Paolo Pasolini
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Topic: Philosophical, Religion
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It doesn't seem to me that this fantastically marvelous universe, this tremendous range of time and space and different kinds of animals, and all the different planets, and all these atoms with all their motions, and so on, all this complicated thing can merely be a stage so that God can watch human beings struggle for good and evil - which is the view that religion has. The stage is too big for the drama.
Topic: Philosophical
Topic: Philosophical
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One has to take a somewhat bold and dangerous line with this existence: especially as, whatever happens, we are bound to lose it.
- Friedrich Nietzsche
Untimely Meditations
Topic: Philosophical
We have negative mental habits that come up over and over again. One of the most significant negative habits we should be aware of is that of constantly allowing our mind to run off into the future. Perhaps we got this from our parents. Carried away by our worries, we're unable to live fully and happily in the present. Deep down, we believe we can't really be happy just yet—that we still have a few more boxes to be checked off before we can really enjoy life. We speculate, dream, strategize, and plan for these "conditions of happiness" we want to have in the future; and we continually chase after that future, even while we sleep. We may have fears about the future because we don't know how it's going to turn out, and these worries and anxieties keep us from enjoying being here now.
- Thich Nhat Hanh
Peace Is Every Breath: A Practice for Our Busy Lives
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Topic: Philosophical
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I tell you: one must still have chaos in one, to give birth to a dancing star. I tell you: you have still chaos in you.
- Nietzsche Friedrich Wilhelm
Thus Spoke Zarathustra
Topic: Philosophical
Topic: Philosophical
Despite the business and auto-rickshaws and bantering Bengalis just beyond his brown front door, Sanjit cultivates a distinct learning environment and energy, one created and galvanized above the tile floors, within the thin walls, below the imperative ceiling fans, and embraced by books.
- Colin Phelan
The Local School
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Topic: Philosophical
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When you come to the edge of all that you know, you must believe one of two things: either there will be ground to stand on, or you will be given wings to fly.
- O.R. Melling
The Summer King
Topic: Philosophical
Topic: Philosophical
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The first and most important thing an individual can do is to become an individual again, decontrol himself, train himself as to what is going on and win back as much independent ground for himself as possible
Topic: Philosophical
Topic: Philosophical

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Even a soul submerged in sleep
is hard at work and helps
make something of the world.
- Heraclitus
Fragments
Topic: Philosophical
NOT YET RATING ▼
It is foolish and wrong to mourn the men who died. Rather, we should thank God that such men lived.
- George S. Patton Jr.
Topic: Philosophical
Topic: Philosophical

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NOT YET RATING ▼
One must wait until the evening to see how splendid the day has been.
Topic: Philosophical
NOT YET RATING ▼
A bridge of silver wings stretches from the dead ashes of an unforgiving nightmare
to the jeweled vision of a life started anew.
- Aberjhani
Journey through the Power of the Rainbow: Quotations from a Life Made Out of Poetry
Topic: Philosophical
NOT YET RATING ▼
What we have forgotten is that thoughts and words are conventions, and that it is fatal to take conventions too seriously. A convention is a social convenience, as, for example, money ... but it is absurd to take money too seriously, to confuse it with real wealth ... In somewhat the same way, thoughts, ideas and words are "coins" for real things.
- Alan Wilson Watts
The Wisdom of Insecurity: A Message for an Age of Anxiety
Topic: Philosophical
Topic: Philosophical
NOT YET RATING ▼
It is clear that the individual who persecutes a man, his brother, because he is not of the same opinion, is a monster.
Topic: Philosophical
...an optimistic mind-set finds dozens of possible solutions for every problem that the pessimist regards as incurable.
- Robert Anton Wilson
Cosmic Trigger: Die letzten Geheimnisse der Illuminaten oder An den Grenzen des erweiterten Bewusstseins
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Philosophical
NOT YET RATING ▼
To learn is not to know; there are the learners and the learned. Memory makes the one, philosophy the others.
- Alexandre Dumas
The Count of Monte Cristo
Topic: Philosophical
Topic: Philosophical
Nothing in the world is permanent, and we’re foolish when we ask anything to last, but surely we’re still more foolish not to take delight in it while we have it. If change is of the essence of existence one would have thought it only sensible to make it the premise of our philosophy.
- W. Somerset Maugham
The Razor’s Edge
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Philosophical
NOT YET RATING ▼
I am sitting with a philosopher in the garden; he says again and again 'I know that that’s a tree', pointing to a tree that is near us. Someone else arrives and hears this, and I tell him: 'This fellow isn’t insane. We are only doing philosophy.
- Ludwig Wittgenstein
On Certainty
Topic: Philosophical
NOT YET RATING ▼
The map is not the territory.
- Alfred Korzybski
Topic: Philosophical
Topic: Philosophical
NOT YET RATING ▼
Dreams have only one owner at a time. That's why dreamers are lonely.
Topic: Philosophical
Topic: Philosophical
Maybe that's it, [...] [w]ith what you were talking about before. The world being broken. Maybe it isn't that we're supposed to find the pieces and put them back together. Maybe we're the pieces." [...] "Maybe [...] what we're supposed to do is come together. That's how we stop the breaking.
- David Levithan
Nick & Norah's Infinite Playlist
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Philosophical
NOT YET RATING ▼
Most of what passes for legitimate entertainment is inferior or foolish and only caters to or exploits people's weaknesses. Avoid being one of the mob who indulges in such pastimes. Your life is too short and you have important things to do. Be discriminating about what images and ideas you permit into your mind. If you yourself don't choose what thoughts and images you expose yourself to, someone else will, and their motives may not be the highest. It is the easiest thing in the world to slide imperceptibly into vulgarity. But there's no need for that to happen if you determine not to waste your time and attention on mindless pap.
- Epictetus
The Art of Living: The Classical Manual on Virtue, Happiness and Effectiveness
Topic: Philosophical
NOT YET RATING ▼
To ridicule philosophy is really to philosophize.
Topic: Philosophical
NOT YET RATING ▼
when a language dies, a way of understanding the world dies with it, a way of looking at the world.
- Steiner G
Topic: Philosophical
Topic: Philosophical
If you know that I am an unbeliever, then you know me better than I do myself. I may be an unbeliever, but I am an unbeliever who has a nostalgia for a belief.
- Pier Paolo Pasolini
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Philosophical, Religion
NOT YET RATING ▼
It doesn't seem to me that this fantastically marvelous universe, this tremendous range of time and space and different kinds of animals, and all the different planets, and all these atoms with all their motions, and so on, all this complicated thing can merely be a stage so that God can watch human beings struggle for good and evil - which is the view that religion has. The stage is too big for the drama.
Topic: Philosophical
Topic: Philosophical
NOT YET RATING ▼
One has to take a somewhat bold and dangerous line with this existence: especially as, whatever happens, we are bound to lose it.
- Friedrich Nietzsche
Untimely Meditations
Topic: Philosophical
We have negative mental habits that come up over and over again. One of the most significant negative habits we should be aware of is that of constantly allowing our mind to run off into the future. Perhaps we got this from our parents. Carried away by our worries, we're unable to live fully and happily in the present. Deep down, we believe we can't really be happy just yet—that we still have a few more boxes to be checked off before we can really enjoy life. We speculate, dream, strategize, and plan for these "conditions of happiness" we want to have in the future; and we continually chase after that future, even while we sleep. We may have fears about the future because we don't know how it's going to turn out, and these worries and anxieties keep us from enjoying being here now.
- Thich Nhat Hanh
Peace Is Every Breath: A Practice for Our Busy Lives
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Philosophical
NOT YET RATING ▼
I tell you: one must still have chaos in one, to give birth to a dancing star. I tell you: you have still chaos in you.
- Nietzsche Friedrich Wilhelm
Thus Spoke Zarathustra
Topic: Philosophical
Topic: Philosophical
Despite the business and auto-rickshaws and bantering Bengalis just beyond his brown front door, Sanjit cultivates a distinct learning environment and energy, one created and galvanized above the tile floors, within the thin walls, below the imperative ceiling fans, and embraced by books.
- Colin Phelan
The Local School
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Philosophical
NOT YET RATING ▼
When you come to the edge of all that you know, you must believe one of two things: either there will be ground to stand on, or you will be given wings to fly.
- O.R. Melling
The Summer King
Topic: Philosophical
Topic: Philosophical
NOT YET RATING ▼
The first and most important thing an individual can do is to become an individual again, decontrol himself, train himself as to what is going on and win back as much independent ground for himself as possible
Topic: Philosophical
Topic: Philosophical

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NOT YET RATING ▼
Even a soul submerged in sleep
is hard at work and helps
make something of the world.
- Heraclitus
Fragments
Topic: Philosophical
NOT YET RATING ▼
It is foolish and wrong to mourn the men who died. Rather, we should thank God that such men lived.
- George S. Patton Jr.
Topic: Philosophical
Topic: Philosophical

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NOT YET RATING ▼
One must wait until the evening to see how splendid the day has been.
Topic: Philosophical
NOT YET RATING ▼
A bridge of silver wings stretches from the dead ashes of an unforgiving nightmare
to the jeweled vision of a life started anew.
- Aberjhani
Journey through the Power of the Rainbow: Quotations from a Life Made Out of Poetry
Topic: Philosophical
NOT YET RATING ▼
What we have forgotten is that thoughts and words are conventions, and that it is fatal to take conventions too seriously. A convention is a social convenience, as, for example, money ... but it is absurd to take money too seriously, to confuse it with real wealth ... In somewhat the same way, thoughts, ideas and words are "coins" for real things.
- Alan Wilson Watts
The Wisdom of Insecurity: A Message for an Age of Anxiety
Topic: Philosophical
Topic: Philosophical
NOT YET RATING ▼
It is clear that the individual who persecutes a man, his brother, because he is not of the same opinion, is a monster.
Topic: Philosophical
...an optimistic mind-set finds dozens of possible solutions for every problem that the pessimist regards as incurable.
- Robert Anton Wilson
Cosmic Trigger: Die letzten Geheimnisse der Illuminaten oder An den Grenzen des erweiterten Bewusstseins
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Philosophical
NOT YET RATING ▼
To learn is not to know; there are the learners and the learned. Memory makes the one, philosophy the others.
- Alexandre Dumas
The Count of Monte Cristo
Topic: Philosophical
Topic: Philosophical
Nothing in the world is permanent, and we’re foolish when we ask anything to last, but surely we’re still more foolish not to take delight in it while we have it. If change is of the essence of existence one would have thought it only sensible to make it the premise of our philosophy.
- W. Somerset Maugham
The Razor’s Edge
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Philosophical
NOT YET RATING ▼
I am sitting with a philosopher in the garden; he says again and again 'I know that that’s a tree', pointing to a tree that is near us. Someone else arrives and hears this, and I tell him: 'This fellow isn’t insane. We are only doing philosophy.
- Ludwig Wittgenstein
On Certainty
Topic: Philosophical
NOT YET RATING ▼
The map is not the territory.
- Alfred Korzybski
Topic: Philosophical
Topic: Philosophical
NOT YET RATING ▼
Dreams have only one owner at a time. That's why dreamers are lonely.
Topic: Philosophical
Topic: Philosophical
Maybe that's it, [...] [w]ith what you were talking about before. The world being broken. Maybe it isn't that we're supposed to find the pieces and put them back together. Maybe we're the pieces." [...] "Maybe [...] what we're supposed to do is come together. That's how we stop the breaking.
- David Levithan
Nick & Norah's Infinite Playlist
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Philosophical
NOT YET RATING ▼
Most of what passes for legitimate entertainment is inferior or foolish and only caters to or exploits people's weaknesses. Avoid being one of the mob who indulges in such pastimes. Your life is too short and you have important things to do. Be discriminating about what images and ideas you permit into your mind. If you yourself don't choose what thoughts and images you expose yourself to, someone else will, and their motives may not be the highest. It is the easiest thing in the world to slide imperceptibly into vulgarity. But there's no need for that to happen if you determine not to waste your time and attention on mindless pap.
- Epictetus
The Art of Living: The Classical Manual on Virtue, Happiness and Effectiveness
Topic: Philosophical
NOT YET RATING ▼
To ridicule philosophy is really to philosophize.
Topic: Philosophical
NOT YET RATING ▼
when a language dies, a way of understanding the world dies with it, a way of looking at the world.
- Steiner G
Topic: Philosophical
Topic: Philosophical
If you know that I am an unbeliever, then you know me better than I do myself. I may be an unbeliever, but I am an unbeliever who has a nostalgia for a belief.
- Pier Paolo Pasolini
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Philosophical, Religion
NOT YET RATING ▼
It doesn't seem to me that this fantastically marvelous universe, this tremendous range of time and space and different kinds of animals, and all the different planets, and all these atoms with all their motions, and so on, all this complicated thing can merely be a stage so that God can watch human beings struggle for good and evil - which is the view that religion has. The stage is too big for the drama.
Topic: Philosophical
Topic: Philosophical
NOT YET RATING ▼
One has to take a somewhat bold and dangerous line with this existence: especially as, whatever happens, we are bound to lose it.
- Friedrich Nietzsche
Untimely Meditations
Topic: Philosophical
We have negative mental habits that come up over and over again. One of the most significant negative habits we should be aware of is that of constantly allowing our mind to run off into the future. Perhaps we got this from our parents. Carried away by our worries, we're unable to live fully and happily in the present. Deep down, we believe we can't really be happy just yet—that we still have a few more boxes to be checked off before we can really enjoy life. We speculate, dream, strategize, and plan for these "conditions of happiness" we want to have in the future; and we continually chase after that future, even while we sleep. We may have fears about the future because we don't know how it's going to turn out, and these worries and anxieties keep us from enjoying being here now.
- Thich Nhat Hanh
Peace Is Every Breath: A Practice for Our Busy Lives
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Philosophical
NOT YET RATING ▼
I tell you: one must still have chaos in one, to give birth to a dancing star. I tell you: you have still chaos in you.
- Nietzsche Friedrich Wilhelm
Thus Spoke Zarathustra
Topic: Philosophical
Topic: Philosophical
Despite the business and auto-rickshaws and bantering Bengalis just beyond his brown front door, Sanjit cultivates a distinct learning environment and energy, one created and galvanized above the tile floors, within the thin walls, below the imperative ceiling fans, and embraced by books.
- Colin Phelan
The Local School
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Philosophical
NOT YET RATING ▼
When you come to the edge of all that you know, you must believe one of two things: either there will be ground to stand on, or you will be given wings to fly.
- O.R. Melling
The Summer King
Topic: Philosophical
Topic: Philosophical
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