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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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I cannot encourage any fabrication even for the sake of making people feel good. If I were to fabricate consciously and knowingly, I would not only be ordaining myself their enemy, but also ordaining myself God's enemy.
- Criss Jami
Killosophy
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Topic: Philosophical
The most important thing about a technology is how it changes people.
- Jaron Lanier
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Philosophical
Where we choose to be, where we choose to be--we have the power to determine that in our lives. We cannot reel time backward or forward, but we can take ourselves to the place that defines our being.
- Sena Jeter Naslund
Ahab's Wife, or The Star-Gazer
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Topic: Philosophical
Merely fact-minded sciences make merely fact-minded people.
- Edmund Husserl
The Crisis of European Sciences and Transcendental Phenomenology
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Philosophical
The best proof that He will never cease to love us lies in that He never began.
- Geerhardus Vos
Redemptive History & Biblical Interpretation: The Shorter Writings of Geerhardus Vos
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Topic: Philosophical, Religion
The mark of your ignorance is the depth of your belief in injustice and tragedy. What the caterpillar calls the end of the world, the master calls a butterfly.
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Philosophical
XXX
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Here is your great soul—the man who has given himself over to Fate; on the other hand, that man is a weakling and a degenerate who struggles and maligns the order of the universe and would rather reform the gods than reform himself.
- Seneca
Letters From A Stoic: Epistulae Morales AD Lucilium (Illustrated. Newly revised text. Includes Image Gallery + Audio): All Three Volumes
Topic: Philosophical
What if nobody showed up at Armageddon?
- C R Strahan
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Philosophical
XXX
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I tell you: one must still have chaos in oneself to give birth to a dancing star. I tell you: you still have chaos in yourselves.
- Friedrich Nietzsche
Thus Spoke Zarathustra
Topic: Philosophical
Nietzsche says very clearly all the way through his career that if you want to define human nature the first thing you must say is that human beings insist on value--we see the world through value colored eyes. We do not know how to look at things neutrally, value-free. So, it's not a question of giving up all values, it's simply a question of which values.
- Robert C. Solomon
Will to Power: The Philosophy of Friedrich Nietzsche
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Philosophical
Sacraments are like hoses. They are the channels of the living water of God's grace. Our faith is like opening the faucet. We can open it a lot, a little, or not at all.
- Peter Kreeft
Jesus-Shock
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Philosophical
The obsessive desire for a passionate relationship is usually a reflection of a lack of love for oneself. The manic need to pursue a passionate career is rooted in an intense unhappiness with present reality. They are a series of soothing thoughts and deflection methods and escape routes: The monster everyone’s running from, of course, is themselves.
- Brianna Wiest
101 Essays That Will Change The Way You Think
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Philosophical
It was a dance of masks and every mask was perfect because every mask was a real face and every face was a
real mask so there was no mask and there was no face for there was but one dance in which there was but
one mask but one true face which was the same and which was a thing without a name which changed and
changed into itself over and over.
- Leonard Cohen
Beautiful Losers
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Philosophical
No dirt can touch me, like an ocean, everything that comes to me becomes clean.
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Philosophical
XXX
NOT YET RATING ▼
What is to be, will be, and no prayers of ours can arrest the decree.
Topic: Philosophical
For a Westerner, it is usually sufficient for a proposition to be logically sound. For a Chinese it is not sufficient that a proposition be logically correct, but it must be at the same time in accord with human nature.
- Lin Yutang
My Country And My People
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Philosophical
XXX
NOT YET RATING ▼
Existence is beyond the power of words
To define:
Terms may be used
But are none of them absolute.
In the beginning of heaven and earth there were no words,
Words came out of the womb of matter;
And whether a man dispassionately
Sees to the core of life
Or passionately
Sees the surface,
The core and the surface
Are essentially the same,
Words making them seem different
Only to express appearance.
If name be needed, wonder names them both:
From wonder into wonder
Existence opens.
Topic: Philosophical
NIHILIST, n. A Russian who denies the existence of anything but Tolstoi. The leader of the school is Tolstoi.
- Ambrose Bierce
The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Philosophical
In one way, I suppose, I have been "in denial" for some time, knowingly burning the candle at both ends and finding that it often gives a lovely light. But for precisely that reason, I can't see myself smiting my brow with shock or hear myself whining about how it's all so unfair: I have been taunting the Reaper into taking a free scythe in my direction and have now succumbed to something so predictable and banal that it bores even me.
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Philosophical
Every passion borders on the chaotic, but the collector's passion borders on the chaos of memories.
- Walter Benjamin
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Philosophical
XXX
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He who says either that the time for philosophy has not yet come or that it has passed is like someone who says that the time for happiness has not yet come or that it has passed.
Topic: Philosophical
If you ask me to tell you anything about the nature of what lies beyond the phaneron… my answer is “How should I know?”… I am not dismayed by ultimate mysteries… I can no more grasp what is behind such questions as my cat can understand what is behind the clatter I make while I type this paragraph.
- Martin Gardner
The Whys of a Philosophical Scrivener
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Philosophical
Whether we like it or not, modern ways are going to alter and in part destroy traditional customs and values.
- Werner Heisenberg
Physics and Philosophy: The Revolution in Modern Science
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Philosophical
At what moment?" she asked him. "At what moment do we cease to be humans and become objects?"

Blaise continued to make his way in silence, carrying the lamp at arm's length to spread its light as far as possible. When he finally replied, it was in a different voice from usual, deeper, calmer, and without the slightest stutter: "Some humans are objects while they're alive, Mademoiselle Eulalia.
- Christelle Dabos
La Mémoire de Babel
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Philosophical
I cannot encourage any fabrication even for the sake of making people feel good. If I were to fabricate consciously and knowingly, I would not only be ordaining myself their enemy, but also ordaining myself God's enemy.
- Criss Jami
Killosophy
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Philosophical
The most important thing about a technology is how it changes people.
- Jaron Lanier
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Philosophical
Where we choose to be, where we choose to be--we have the power to determine that in our lives. We cannot reel time backward or forward, but we can take ourselves to the place that defines our being.
- Sena Jeter Naslund
Ahab's Wife, or The Star-Gazer
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Philosophical
Merely fact-minded sciences make merely fact-minded people.
- Edmund Husserl
The Crisis of European Sciences and Transcendental Phenomenology
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Philosophical
The best proof that He will never cease to love us lies in that He never began.
- Geerhardus Vos
Redemptive History & Biblical Interpretation: The Shorter Writings of Geerhardus Vos
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Philosophical, Religion
The mark of your ignorance is the depth of your belief in injustice and tragedy. What the caterpillar calls the end of the world, the master calls a butterfly.
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Philosophical
XXX
NOT YET RATING ▼
Here is your great soul—the man who has given himself over to Fate; on the other hand, that man is a weakling and a degenerate who struggles and maligns the order of the universe and would rather reform the gods than reform himself.
- Seneca
Letters From A Stoic: Epistulae Morales AD Lucilium (Illustrated. Newly revised text. Includes Image Gallery + Audio): All Three Volumes
Topic: Philosophical
What if nobody showed up at Armageddon?
- C R Strahan
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Philosophical
XXX
NOT YET RATING ▼
I tell you: one must still have chaos in oneself to give birth to a dancing star. I tell you: you still have chaos in yourselves.
- Friedrich Nietzsche
Thus Spoke Zarathustra
Topic: Philosophical
Nietzsche says very clearly all the way through his career that if you want to define human nature the first thing you must say is that human beings insist on value--we see the world through value colored eyes. We do not know how to look at things neutrally, value-free. So, it's not a question of giving up all values, it's simply a question of which values.
- Robert C. Solomon
Will to Power: The Philosophy of Friedrich Nietzsche
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Philosophical
Sacraments are like hoses. They are the channels of the living water of God's grace. Our faith is like opening the faucet. We can open it a lot, a little, or not at all.
- Peter Kreeft
Jesus-Shock
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Philosophical
The obsessive desire for a passionate relationship is usually a reflection of a lack of love for oneself. The manic need to pursue a passionate career is rooted in an intense unhappiness with present reality. They are a series of soothing thoughts and deflection methods and escape routes: The monster everyone’s running from, of course, is themselves.
- Brianna Wiest
101 Essays That Will Change The Way You Think
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Philosophical
It was a dance of masks and every mask was perfect because every mask was a real face and every face was a
real mask so there was no mask and there was no face for there was but one dance in which there was but
one mask but one true face which was the same and which was a thing without a name which changed and
changed into itself over and over.
- Leonard Cohen
Beautiful Losers
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Philosophical
No dirt can touch me, like an ocean, everything that comes to me becomes clean.
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Philosophical
XXX
NOT YET RATING ▼
What is to be, will be, and no prayers of ours can arrest the decree.
Topic: Philosophical
For a Westerner, it is usually sufficient for a proposition to be logically sound. For a Chinese it is not sufficient that a proposition be logically correct, but it must be at the same time in accord with human nature.
- Lin Yutang
My Country And My People
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Philosophical
XXX
NOT YET RATING ▼
Existence is beyond the power of words
To define:
Terms may be used
But are none of them absolute.
In the beginning of heaven and earth there were no words,
Words came out of the womb of matter;
And whether a man dispassionately
Sees to the core of life
Or passionately
Sees the surface,
The core and the surface
Are essentially the same,
Words making them seem different
Only to express appearance.
If name be needed, wonder names them both:
From wonder into wonder
Existence opens.
Topic: Philosophical
NIHILIST, n. A Russian who denies the existence of anything but Tolstoi. The leader of the school is Tolstoi.
- Ambrose Bierce
The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Philosophical
In one way, I suppose, I have been "in denial" for some time, knowingly burning the candle at both ends and finding that it often gives a lovely light. But for precisely that reason, I can't see myself smiting my brow with shock or hear myself whining about how it's all so unfair: I have been taunting the Reaper into taking a free scythe in my direction and have now succumbed to something so predictable and banal that it bores even me.
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Philosophical
Every passion borders on the chaotic, but the collector's passion borders on the chaos of memories.
- Walter Benjamin
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Philosophical
XXX
NOT YET RATING ▼
He who says either that the time for philosophy has not yet come or that it has passed is like someone who says that the time for happiness has not yet come or that it has passed.
Topic: Philosophical
If you ask me to tell you anything about the nature of what lies beyond the phaneron… my answer is “How should I know?”… I am not dismayed by ultimate mysteries… I can no more grasp what is behind such questions as my cat can understand what is behind the clatter I make while I type this paragraph.
- Martin Gardner
The Whys of a Philosophical Scrivener
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Philosophical
Whether we like it or not, modern ways are going to alter and in part destroy traditional customs and values.
- Werner Heisenberg
Physics and Philosophy: The Revolution in Modern Science
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Philosophical
At what moment?" she asked him. "At what moment do we cease to be humans and become objects?"

Blaise continued to make his way in silence, carrying the lamp at arm's length to spread its light as far as possible. When he finally replied, it was in a different voice from usual, deeper, calmer, and without the slightest stutter: "Some humans are objects while they're alive, Mademoiselle Eulalia.
- Christelle Dabos
La Mémoire de Babel
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Philosophical
I cannot encourage any fabrication even for the sake of making people feel good. If I were to fabricate consciously and knowingly, I would not only be ordaining myself their enemy, but also ordaining myself God's enemy.
- Criss Jami
Killosophy
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Philosophical
The most important thing about a technology is how it changes people.
- Jaron Lanier
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Philosophical
Where we choose to be, where we choose to be--we have the power to determine that in our lives. We cannot reel time backward or forward, but we can take ourselves to the place that defines our being.
- Sena Jeter Naslund
Ahab's Wife, or The Star-Gazer
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Philosophical
Merely fact-minded sciences make merely fact-minded people.
- Edmund Husserl
The Crisis of European Sciences and Transcendental Phenomenology
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Philosophical
The best proof that He will never cease to love us lies in that He never began.
- Geerhardus Vos
Redemptive History & Biblical Interpretation: The Shorter Writings of Geerhardus Vos
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Philosophical, Religion
The mark of your ignorance is the depth of your belief in injustice and tragedy. What the caterpillar calls the end of the world, the master calls a butterfly.
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Philosophical
XXX
NOT YET RATING ▼
Here is your great soul—the man who has given himself over to Fate; on the other hand, that man is a weakling and a degenerate who struggles and maligns the order of the universe and would rather reform the gods than reform himself.
- Seneca
Letters From A Stoic: Epistulae Morales AD Lucilium (Illustrated. Newly revised text. Includes Image Gallery + Audio): All Three Volumes
Topic: Philosophical
What if nobody showed up at Armageddon?
- C R Strahan
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Philosophical
XXX
NOT YET RATING ▼
I tell you: one must still have chaos in oneself to give birth to a dancing star. I tell you: you still have chaos in yourselves.
- Friedrich Nietzsche
Thus Spoke Zarathustra
Topic: Philosophical
Nietzsche says very clearly all the way through his career that if you want to define human nature the first thing you must say is that human beings insist on value--we see the world through value colored eyes. We do not know how to look at things neutrally, value-free. So, it's not a question of giving up all values, it's simply a question of which values.
- Robert C. Solomon
Will to Power: The Philosophy of Friedrich Nietzsche
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Philosophical
Sacraments are like hoses. They are the channels of the living water of God's grace. Our faith is like opening the faucet. We can open it a lot, a little, or not at all.
- Peter Kreeft
Jesus-Shock
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Philosophical
The obsessive desire for a passionate relationship is usually a reflection of a lack of love for oneself. The manic need to pursue a passionate career is rooted in an intense unhappiness with present reality. They are a series of soothing thoughts and deflection methods and escape routes: The monster everyone’s running from, of course, is themselves.
- Brianna Wiest
101 Essays That Will Change The Way You Think
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Philosophical
It was a dance of masks and every mask was perfect because every mask was a real face and every face was a
real mask so there was no mask and there was no face for there was but one dance in which there was but
one mask but one true face which was the same and which was a thing without a name which changed and
changed into itself over and over.
- Leonard Cohen
Beautiful Losers
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Philosophical
No dirt can touch me, like an ocean, everything that comes to me becomes clean.
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Philosophical
XXX
NOT YET RATING ▼
What is to be, will be, and no prayers of ours can arrest the decree.
Topic: Philosophical
For a Westerner, it is usually sufficient for a proposition to be logically sound. For a Chinese it is not sufficient that a proposition be logically correct, but it must be at the same time in accord with human nature.
- Lin Yutang
My Country And My People
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Philosophical
XXX
NOT YET RATING ▼
Existence is beyond the power of words
To define:
Terms may be used
But are none of them absolute.
In the beginning of heaven and earth there were no words,
Words came out of the womb of matter;
And whether a man dispassionately
Sees to the core of life
Or passionately
Sees the surface,
The core and the surface
Are essentially the same,
Words making them seem different
Only to express appearance.
If name be needed, wonder names them both:
From wonder into wonder
Existence opens.
Topic: Philosophical
NIHILIST, n. A Russian who denies the existence of anything but Tolstoi. The leader of the school is Tolstoi.
- Ambrose Bierce
The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Philosophical
In one way, I suppose, I have been "in denial" for some time, knowingly burning the candle at both ends and finding that it often gives a lovely light. But for precisely that reason, I can't see myself smiting my brow with shock or hear myself whining about how it's all so unfair: I have been taunting the Reaper into taking a free scythe in my direction and have now succumbed to something so predictable and banal that it bores even me.
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Philosophical
Every passion borders on the chaotic, but the collector's passion borders on the chaos of memories.
- Walter Benjamin
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Philosophical
XXX
NOT YET RATING ▼
He who says either that the time for philosophy has not yet come or that it has passed is like someone who says that the time for happiness has not yet come or that it has passed.
Topic: Philosophical
If you ask me to tell you anything about the nature of what lies beyond the phaneron… my answer is “How should I know?”… I am not dismayed by ultimate mysteries… I can no more grasp what is behind such questions as my cat can understand what is behind the clatter I make while I type this paragraph.
- Martin Gardner
The Whys of a Philosophical Scrivener
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Philosophical
Whether we like it or not, modern ways are going to alter and in part destroy traditional customs and values.
- Werner Heisenberg
Physics and Philosophy: The Revolution in Modern Science
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Philosophical
At what moment?" she asked him. "At what moment do we cease to be humans and become objects?"

Blaise continued to make his way in silence, carrying the lamp at arm's length to spread its light as far as possible. When he finally replied, it was in a different voice from usual, deeper, calmer, and without the slightest stutter: "Some humans are objects while they're alive, Mademoiselle Eulalia.
- Christelle Dabos
La Mémoire de Babel
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Philosophical
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