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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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So he came to realize that learning a language was perhaps the most profound thing a man could do. Not only did it require wrapping different sounds around the very movement of your soul, it involved learning things somehow already known, as though much of what he was somehow existed apart from him. A kind of enlightenment accompanied these first lessons, a deeper understanding of self.
- R. Scott Bakker
The Judging Eye
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Topic: Philosophical
Dove la moralità è troppo forte l'intelletto perisce.
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Topic: Philosophical
She had lost herself in this old work, her personality dissolving into it, so that she had been set free. The immortality of the soul lies in its dissolution; this was the cryptic comment that so frustrated Olivier and which Julien had only ever grasped as evidence for the history of a particular school of thought. He had known all about its history, but Julia knew what it meant. He found the realization strangely reassuring.
- Iain Pears
The Dream of Scipio
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Topic: Philosophical
La filosofía nos enseña a sentir incertidumbre ante las cosas que nos parecen evidentes. La propaganda, en cambio, nos enseña a aceptar como evidentes cosas sobre las que sería razonable suspender nuestro juicio o sentir dudas.
- Aldous Huxley
Brave New World Revisited
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Topic: Philosophical
I would not think that philosophy and reason themselves will be man's guide in the foreseeable future; however, they will remain the most beautiful sanctuary they have always been for the select few.
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Topic: Philosophical
This is considered almost holy work by farmers and ranchers. Kill off everything you can't eat. Kill off anything that eats what you eat. Kill off anything that doesn't feed what you eat."

"It IS holy work, in Taker culture. The more competitors you destroy, the more humans you can bring into the world, and that makes it just about the holiest work there is. Once you exempt yourself from the law of limited competition, everything in the world except your food and the food of your food becomes an enemy to be exterminated.
- Daniel Quinn
Ishmael: An Adventure of the Mind and Spirit
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Topic: Philosophical
One great function of the arts is to keep ideals alive in a culture that does not yet realize them.
- Susan Neiman
Moral Clarity: A Guide for Grown-up Idealists
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Topic: Philosophical
Mad are the mortals who poison the river that quenches their thirst and yet hope to live.
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Topic: Philosophical
We are all two-faced beings, divided by the Force and fated for eternity to search out our hidden identities.
- James Luceno
Darth Plagueis
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Topic: Philosophical
the problem with accepting things that are contradictory as possibly right is that you cannot possibly be thinking yourself when you do it.
- Timothy Snyder
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Topic: Philosophical
...the greater objective (representative) perfection there is in our idea of a thing, the greater also must be the perfection of its cause.
- René Descartes
Principles of Philosophy
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Topic: Philosophical
Why is female vulnerability still only acceptable when it's neuroticised and personal; when it feeds back on itself? Why do people still not get it when we handle vulnerability like philosophy, at some remove?
- Chris Kraus
I Love Dick
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Topic: Philosophical
The most boring and unproductive question one can ask of any religion is whether or not it is true.
- Alain de Botton
Religion for Atheists: A Non-Believer's Guide to the Uses of Religion
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Topic: Philosophical, Religion
Appreciation has tremendous power. A beautiful thing is not beautiful until someone appreciates it.
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Topic: Philosophical
Maybe I should have gone into politics. If you were a political activist, election season brought moments of intensity, whichever side you were on, and meanwhile here I was inarguably withering away,
- Michel Houllebecq
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Topic: Philosophical
Stand in the divine rain, and seeds of wisdom will grow in your soul.
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Topic: Philosophical, Religion
Allaah subhanahuu, rejects those who refused Allaah’s Shareeah; the laws that are good for the Muslims; the laws that forbid what is evil. Allaah rejects those who follow laws of personal desires and who adopt laws of Kufr such as the laws enforced by the Tartars who were under the control of Gengiz Khan, their king. These laws were a mixture of Judaism, Christianity and laws chosen by their king that suited his desires. Should we prefer these laws to the Sharee`ah of Allaah and His Prophet (sallallahu alaihi wa sallam)?
- Ibnu Katsir
Tafsir Ibnu Katsir
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Topic: Philosophical, Religion
Democracy should always be viewed with a philosophical perspective rather than a political one, because after all democracy was born to a philosopher and murdered by a politician.
- Aysha Taryam
The Opposite of Indifference: A Collection of Commentaries
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Topic: Philosophical
After some cogitation, it is difficult not to agree with Herman Bondi (1919 - 2005), who in his book 'Relativity and Common Sense' says:
... The surprising thing, surely, is that molecules in a gas behave so much as billiard balls, not that electrons behave so little like billiard balls.
- Felix Alba-Juez
E=mc^2: The Most Famous Equation in History... and its Folklore
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XXX
Topic: Philosophical
If Relativity Theory kills our deepest convictions, why not start by finding out why we believed in them for millennia?
- Felix Alba-Juez
Galloping with Light - Einstein, Relativity, and Folklore
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XXX
Topic: Philosophical
So many other planets & stars -- could all those stars set over barren planets, beauty wasted? Or, are sunsets witnessed throughout the universe?
- Self
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Topic: Philosophical
Three metamorphoses of the spirit have I designated to you: how the
spirit became a camel, the camel a lion, and the lion at last a child.
- Friedrich Nietzsche
Thus Spoke Zarathustra
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XXX
Topic: Philosophical
My ship came in,then it sank!
- Brian T. Shirley
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XXX
Topic: Philosophical
Mereka yang berani adalah mereka yang telah berkorban menemukan dirinya sendiri
- Ikbal Maulana
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XXX
Topic: Philosophical
So he came to realize that learning a language was perhaps the most profound thing a man could do. Not only did it require wrapping different sounds around the very movement of your soul, it involved learning things somehow already known, as though much of what he was somehow existed apart from him. A kind of enlightenment accompanied these first lessons, a deeper understanding of self.
- R. Scott Bakker
The Judging Eye
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
XXX
Topic: Philosophical
Dove la moralità è troppo forte l'intelletto perisce.
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
XXX
Topic: Philosophical
She had lost herself in this old work, her personality dissolving into it, so that she had been set free. The immortality of the soul lies in its dissolution; this was the cryptic comment that so frustrated Olivier and which Julien had only ever grasped as evidence for the history of a particular school of thought. He had known all about its history, but Julia knew what it meant. He found the realization strangely reassuring.
- Iain Pears
The Dream of Scipio
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
XXX
Topic: Philosophical
La filosofía nos enseña a sentir incertidumbre ante las cosas que nos parecen evidentes. La propaganda, en cambio, nos enseña a aceptar como evidentes cosas sobre las que sería razonable suspender nuestro juicio o sentir dudas.
- Aldous Huxley
Brave New World Revisited
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XXX
Topic: Philosophical
I would not think that philosophy and reason themselves will be man's guide in the foreseeable future; however, they will remain the most beautiful sanctuary they have always been for the select few.
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
XXX
Topic: Philosophical
This is considered almost holy work by farmers and ranchers. Kill off everything you can't eat. Kill off anything that eats what you eat. Kill off anything that doesn't feed what you eat."

"It IS holy work, in Taker culture. The more competitors you destroy, the more humans you can bring into the world, and that makes it just about the holiest work there is. Once you exempt yourself from the law of limited competition, everything in the world except your food and the food of your food becomes an enemy to be exterminated.
- Daniel Quinn
Ishmael: An Adventure of the Mind and Spirit
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
XXX
Topic: Philosophical
One great function of the arts is to keep ideals alive in a culture that does not yet realize them.
- Susan Neiman
Moral Clarity: A Guide for Grown-up Idealists
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
XXX
Topic: Philosophical
Mad are the mortals who poison the river that quenches their thirst and yet hope to live.
Avg Rating: 5.0 ★Rate This Quote
XXX
Topic: Philosophical
We are all two-faced beings, divided by the Force and fated for eternity to search out our hidden identities.
- James Luceno
Darth Plagueis
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XXX
Topic: Philosophical
the problem with accepting things that are contradictory as possibly right is that you cannot possibly be thinking yourself when you do it.
- Timothy Snyder
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
XXX
Topic: Philosophical
...the greater objective (representative) perfection there is in our idea of a thing, the greater also must be the perfection of its cause.
- René Descartes
Principles of Philosophy
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
XXX
Topic: Philosophical
Why is female vulnerability still only acceptable when it's neuroticised and personal; when it feeds back on itself? Why do people still not get it when we handle vulnerability like philosophy, at some remove?
- Chris Kraus
I Love Dick
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
XXX
Topic: Philosophical
The most boring and unproductive question one can ask of any religion is whether or not it is true.
- Alain de Botton
Religion for Atheists: A Non-Believer's Guide to the Uses of Religion
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XXX
Topic: Philosophical, Religion
Appreciation has tremendous power. A beautiful thing is not beautiful until someone appreciates it.
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
XXX
Topic: Philosophical
Maybe I should have gone into politics. If you were a political activist, election season brought moments of intensity, whichever side you were on, and meanwhile here I was inarguably withering away,
- Michel Houllebecq
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
XXX
Topic: Philosophical
Stand in the divine rain, and seeds of wisdom will grow in your soul.
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
XXX
Topic: Philosophical, Religion
Allaah subhanahuu, rejects those who refused Allaah’s Shareeah; the laws that are good for the Muslims; the laws that forbid what is evil. Allaah rejects those who follow laws of personal desires and who adopt laws of Kufr such as the laws enforced by the Tartars who were under the control of Gengiz Khan, their king. These laws were a mixture of Judaism, Christianity and laws chosen by their king that suited his desires. Should we prefer these laws to the Sharee`ah of Allaah and His Prophet (sallallahu alaihi wa sallam)?
- Ibnu Katsir
Tafsir Ibnu Katsir
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
XXX
Topic: Philosophical, Religion
Democracy should always be viewed with a philosophical perspective rather than a political one, because after all democracy was born to a philosopher and murdered by a politician.
- Aysha Taryam
The Opposite of Indifference: A Collection of Commentaries
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
XXX
Topic: Philosophical
After some cogitation, it is difficult not to agree with Herman Bondi (1919 - 2005), who in his book 'Relativity and Common Sense' says:
... The surprising thing, surely, is that molecules in a gas behave so much as billiard balls, not that electrons behave so little like billiard balls.
- Felix Alba-Juez
E=mc^2: The Most Famous Equation in History... and its Folklore
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
XXX
Topic: Philosophical
If Relativity Theory kills our deepest convictions, why not start by finding out why we believed in them for millennia?
- Felix Alba-Juez
Galloping with Light - Einstein, Relativity, and Folklore
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
XXX
Topic: Philosophical
So many other planets & stars -- could all those stars set over barren planets, beauty wasted? Or, are sunsets witnessed throughout the universe?
- Self
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
XXX
Topic: Philosophical
Three metamorphoses of the spirit have I designated to you: how the
spirit became a camel, the camel a lion, and the lion at last a child.
- Friedrich Nietzsche
Thus Spoke Zarathustra
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
XXX
Topic: Philosophical
My ship came in,then it sank!
- Brian T. Shirley
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
XXX
Topic: Philosophical
Mereka yang berani adalah mereka yang telah berkorban menemukan dirinya sendiri
- Ikbal Maulana
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
XXX
Topic: Philosophical
So he came to realize that learning a language was perhaps the most profound thing a man could do. Not only did it require wrapping different sounds around the very movement of your soul, it involved learning things somehow already known, as though much of what he was somehow existed apart from him. A kind of enlightenment accompanied these first lessons, a deeper understanding of self.
- R. Scott Bakker
The Judging Eye
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
XXX
Topic: Philosophical
Dove la moralità è troppo forte l'intelletto perisce.
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
XXX
Topic: Philosophical
She had lost herself in this old work, her personality dissolving into it, so that she had been set free. The immortality of the soul lies in its dissolution; this was the cryptic comment that so frustrated Olivier and which Julien had only ever grasped as evidence for the history of a particular school of thought. He had known all about its history, but Julia knew what it meant. He found the realization strangely reassuring.
- Iain Pears
The Dream of Scipio
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
XXX
Topic: Philosophical
La filosofía nos enseña a sentir incertidumbre ante las cosas que nos parecen evidentes. La propaganda, en cambio, nos enseña a aceptar como evidentes cosas sobre las que sería razonable suspender nuestro juicio o sentir dudas.
- Aldous Huxley
Brave New World Revisited
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
XXX
Topic: Philosophical
I would not think that philosophy and reason themselves will be man's guide in the foreseeable future; however, they will remain the most beautiful sanctuary they have always been for the select few.
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
XXX
Topic: Philosophical
This is considered almost holy work by farmers and ranchers. Kill off everything you can't eat. Kill off anything that eats what you eat. Kill off anything that doesn't feed what you eat."

"It IS holy work, in Taker culture. The more competitors you destroy, the more humans you can bring into the world, and that makes it just about the holiest work there is. Once you exempt yourself from the law of limited competition, everything in the world except your food and the food of your food becomes an enemy to be exterminated.
- Daniel Quinn
Ishmael: An Adventure of the Mind and Spirit
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
XXX
Topic: Philosophical
One great function of the arts is to keep ideals alive in a culture that does not yet realize them.
- Susan Neiman
Moral Clarity: A Guide for Grown-up Idealists
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
XXX
Topic: Philosophical
Mad are the mortals who poison the river that quenches their thirst and yet hope to live.
Avg Rating: 5.0 ★Rate This Quote
XXX
Topic: Philosophical
We are all two-faced beings, divided by the Force and fated for eternity to search out our hidden identities.
- James Luceno
Darth Plagueis
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
XXX
Topic: Philosophical
the problem with accepting things that are contradictory as possibly right is that you cannot possibly be thinking yourself when you do it.
- Timothy Snyder
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
XXX
Topic: Philosophical
...the greater objective (representative) perfection there is in our idea of a thing, the greater also must be the perfection of its cause.
- René Descartes
Principles of Philosophy
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
XXX
Topic: Philosophical
Why is female vulnerability still only acceptable when it's neuroticised and personal; when it feeds back on itself? Why do people still not get it when we handle vulnerability like philosophy, at some remove?
- Chris Kraus
I Love Dick
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
XXX
Topic: Philosophical
The most boring and unproductive question one can ask of any religion is whether or not it is true.
- Alain de Botton
Religion for Atheists: A Non-Believer's Guide to the Uses of Religion
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
XXX
Topic: Philosophical, Religion
Appreciation has tremendous power. A beautiful thing is not beautiful until someone appreciates it.
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
XXX
Topic: Philosophical
Maybe I should have gone into politics. If you were a political activist, election season brought moments of intensity, whichever side you were on, and meanwhile here I was inarguably withering away,
- Michel Houllebecq
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
XXX
Topic: Philosophical
Stand in the divine rain, and seeds of wisdom will grow in your soul.
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
XXX
Topic: Philosophical, Religion
Allaah subhanahuu, rejects those who refused Allaah’s Shareeah; the laws that are good for the Muslims; the laws that forbid what is evil. Allaah rejects those who follow laws of personal desires and who adopt laws of Kufr such as the laws enforced by the Tartars who were under the control of Gengiz Khan, their king. These laws were a mixture of Judaism, Christianity and laws chosen by their king that suited his desires. Should we prefer these laws to the Sharee`ah of Allaah and His Prophet (sallallahu alaihi wa sallam)?
- Ibnu Katsir
Tafsir Ibnu Katsir
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
XXX
Topic: Philosophical, Religion
Democracy should always be viewed with a philosophical perspective rather than a political one, because after all democracy was born to a philosopher and murdered by a politician.
- Aysha Taryam
The Opposite of Indifference: A Collection of Commentaries
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
XXX
Topic: Philosophical
After some cogitation, it is difficult not to agree with Herman Bondi (1919 - 2005), who in his book 'Relativity and Common Sense' says:
... The surprising thing, surely, is that molecules in a gas behave so much as billiard balls, not that electrons behave so little like billiard balls.
- Felix Alba-Juez
E=mc^2: The Most Famous Equation in History... and its Folklore
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
XXX
Topic: Philosophical
If Relativity Theory kills our deepest convictions, why not start by finding out why we believed in them for millennia?
- Felix Alba-Juez
Galloping with Light - Einstein, Relativity, and Folklore
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
XXX
Topic: Philosophical
So many other planets & stars -- could all those stars set over barren planets, beauty wasted? Or, are sunsets witnessed throughout the universe?
- Self
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
XXX
Topic: Philosophical
Three metamorphoses of the spirit have I designated to you: how the
spirit became a camel, the camel a lion, and the lion at last a child.
- Friedrich Nietzsche
Thus Spoke Zarathustra
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
XXX
Topic: Philosophical
My ship came in,then it sank!
- Brian T. Shirley
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
XXX
Topic: Philosophical
Mereka yang berani adalah mereka yang telah berkorban menemukan dirinya sendiri
- Ikbal Maulana
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
XXX
Topic: Philosophical
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