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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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Some concepts are so incredibly risky they take an honest fool to try to articulate them.
- Criss Jami
Killosophy
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The challenge is to resist circumstances. Any idiot can be happy in a happy place, but moral courage is required to be happy in a hellhole.
- Joyce Carol Oates
Mudwoman
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Nothing is more visible than things hidden; Nothing is more manifest than things minute; Therefore, the superior man should be aware of his aloneness
- Confucius
The Doctrine Of The Mean
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We may be living past and future lives at the same time we are living this one.
- Doug Dillon
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Of course, supernatural acts are what miracles are all about. They are, after all, precisely those things that circumvent the laws of nature. A god who can create the laws of nature can presumably also circumvent them at will. Although why they would have been circumvented so liberally thousands of years ago, before the invention of modern communication instruments that could have recorded them, and not today, is still something to wonder about.
- Lawrence M. Krauss
A Universe from Nothing: Why There Is Something Rather Than Nothing
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For I have trained myself and am training myself always to be able to dance lightly in the service of thought
- Johannes Climacus S ren Kierkagaard
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The best way to have a good idea is to have a lot of ideas.
- Dr. Linus Pauling
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Compassion is the basis of all morality
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When you’ve tried everything and failed, try everything else and succeed
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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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Dove la moralità è troppo forte l'intelletto perisce.
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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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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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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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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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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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Mad are the mortals who poison the river that quenches their thirst and yet hope to live.
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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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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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...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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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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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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Appreciation has tremendous power. A beautiful thing is not beautiful until someone appreciates it.
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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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Some concepts are so incredibly risky they take an honest fool to try to articulate them.
- Criss Jami
Killosophy
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The challenge is to resist circumstances. Any idiot can be happy in a happy place, but moral courage is required to be happy in a hellhole.
- Joyce Carol Oates
Mudwoman
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Nothing is more visible than things hidden; Nothing is more manifest than things minute; Therefore, the superior man should be aware of his aloneness
- Confucius
The Doctrine Of The Mean
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We may be living past and future lives at the same time we are living this one.
- Doug Dillon
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Of course, supernatural acts are what miracles are all about. They are, after all, precisely those things that circumvent the laws of nature. A god who can create the laws of nature can presumably also circumvent them at will. Although why they would have been circumvented so liberally thousands of years ago, before the invention of modern communication instruments that could have recorded them, and not today, is still something to wonder about.
- Lawrence M. Krauss
A Universe from Nothing: Why There Is Something Rather Than Nothing
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For I have trained myself and am training myself always to be able to dance lightly in the service of thought
- Johannes Climacus S ren Kierkagaard
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The best way to have a good idea is to have a lot of ideas.
- Dr. Linus Pauling
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Compassion is the basis of all morality
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When you’ve tried everything and failed, try everything else and succeed
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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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Dove la moralità è troppo forte l'intelletto perisce.
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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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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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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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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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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
Mad are the mortals who poison the river that quenches their thirst and yet hope to live.
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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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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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...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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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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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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Appreciation has tremendous power. A beautiful thing is not beautiful until someone appreciates it.
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
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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Some concepts are so incredibly risky they take an honest fool to try to articulate them.
- Criss Jami
Killosophy
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
The challenge is to resist circumstances. Any idiot can be happy in a happy place, but moral courage is required to be happy in a hellhole.
- Joyce Carol Oates
Mudwoman
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Nothing is more visible than things hidden; Nothing is more manifest than things minute; Therefore, the superior man should be aware of his aloneness
- Confucius
The Doctrine Of The Mean
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
We may be living past and future lives at the same time we are living this one.
- Doug Dillon
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Of course, supernatural acts are what miracles are all about. They are, after all, precisely those things that circumvent the laws of nature. A god who can create the laws of nature can presumably also circumvent them at will. Although why they would have been circumvented so liberally thousands of years ago, before the invention of modern communication instruments that could have recorded them, and not today, is still something to wonder about.
- Lawrence M. Krauss
A Universe from Nothing: Why There Is Something Rather Than Nothing
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
For I have trained myself and am training myself always to be able to dance lightly in the service of thought
- Johannes Climacus S ren Kierkagaard
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
The best way to have a good idea is to have a lot of ideas.
- Dr. Linus Pauling
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Compassion is the basis of all morality
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
When you’ve tried everything and failed, try everything else and succeed
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
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
Dove la moralità è troppo forte l'intelletto perisce.
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
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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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
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
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
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
Mad are the mortals who poison the river that quenches their thirst and yet hope to live.
Avg Rating: 5.0 ★Rate This Quote
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
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
...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
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
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
Appreciation has tremendous power. A beautiful thing is not beautiful until someone appreciates it.
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
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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