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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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Is it not curious, that so vast a being as the whale should see the world through so small an eye, and hear the thunder through an ear which is smaller than a hare's? But if his eyes were broad as the lens of Herschel's great telescope; and his ears capacious as the porches of cathedrals; would that make him any longer of sight, or sharper of hearing? Not at all.—Why then do you try to "enlarge" your mind? Subtilize it
- Herman Melville
Moby-Dick or, The Whale
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I have always thought that all philosophical debates are ultimately between the partisans of structure and the partisans of "goo.
- Alan Wilson Watts
The Essential Alan Watts
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[On Jason Mashak's book SALTY AS A LIP, as reviewed in The Prague Post:] Mashak amalgamates various national, historical and religious traditions into a myth-mash that illuminates many sects' fanatical compartmentalizing, and the fact that so many religions and philosophies share similar goals, if not roots.
- Stephan Delbos
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What you give your energy to must sustain you, not quielty drain you.
- Kayambila Mpulamasaka
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Sorry, moth,' he said. 'I'm afraid I've rather spoiled your night out. Presumably I've made some other moth a widow, or a widower—I've no idea what sex you are... were, I mean. But I didn't do you in with malice aforethought, old moth, take my word for it. I have no grudge against you, old moth, I do assure you. On the contrary, what I feel for you is love, the love of a tender morsel of moth-meat. I am a great lover of tender morsels, of vole-meat and mouse-meat, of the flesh of little birds and the innards of beetles, and of bite-sized bits of the wriggling worm. All must die to keep Eustace in good nick. And lastly I console you, my lepidopterous friend, with the thought that some day or night Eustace will drop off his perch and be loved in his turn, by the ants and the maggots.
- Dick King-Smith
Godhanger
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No heartbreak can make a poet!
Poetry doesn’t stem from a broken heart
which fell apart
merely because someone left
and left a few marks to be felt,
dealt with and smelt
with emptiness and shallowness
of the breast.
- Alok Mishra
Thoughts Between Life and Death
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Love is born into eve­ry human being: it calls back the halves of our original nature together; it tries to make one out of two and heal the wound of human nature.
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[W]e used to be complete wholes in our original nature, and now ‘love’ is the name for our pursuit of wholeness, for our desire to be complete.
- Plato
The Symposium
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A man's at odds to know his mind cause his mind is aught he has to know it with. He can know his heart, but he don't want to. Rightly so. Best not to look in there. It ain't the heart of a creature that is bound in the way that God has set for it. You can find meanness in the least of creatures, but when God made man the devil was at his elbow. A creature that can do anything.
- Cormac McCarthy
Blood Meridian - Cormac McCarthy
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The World Is Ruled by Numbers
- Alexander Morpheigh
The Pythagorean
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chase the passion that grows your talent. And if you feel passionless, step out and travel-the world teaches what routine cannot.
- SaheL SabharwaL
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On the likeness of the moon, I point to the sun, and the fool looks at my shoe.
- Haidar Aljabiry
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My school is existence, not existentialism. No ism is sufficient, my home is integration.
- Abhijit Naskar
Nazmahal: Palace of Grace
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Human beings never think for themselves, they find it too uncomfortable. For the most part, members of our species simply repeat what they are told - and become upset if they are exposed to any different view. The characteristic human trait is not awareness but conformity, and the characteristic result is religious warfare. Other animals fight for territory or food; but, uniquely in the animal kingdom, human beings fight for 'beliefs.'... We are stubborn, self-destructive conformists. Any other view of our species is just a self-congratulatory delusion.
- Michael Crichton
The Lost World
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When you are lonely for a while don't get restless, if you had born alone, you are going to die alone then for sometime you can certainly live alone.
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A birth-date is a reminder to celebrate the life as well as to update the life.
- Amit Kalantri
Wealth of Words
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Intelligence is more important than strength, that is why earth is ruled by men and not by animals.
- Amit Kalantri
Wealth of Words
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Resources are hired to give results, not reasons.
- Amit Kalantri
Wealth of Words
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Never stop acquiring the commonsense, it is as good as the knowledge.
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The decision is your own voice, an opinion is the echo of someone else's voice.
- Amit Kalantri
Wealth of Words
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If thinking should precede acting, then acting must succeed thinking.
- Amit Kalantri
Wealth of Words
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Beloved, the passage of time is but a fleeting metric, for it is the accumulation of life's experiences that truly constitutes wisdom. The years may chronicle our journey, but it is the depth of our encounters, the richness of our struggles, and the breadth of our understanding that ultimately define the substance of our being.
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Happiness is a very pretty thing to feel, but very dry to talk about.
- Jeremy Bentham
The Panopticon Writings
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Place yourself in the middle of the stream of power and wisdom which animates all whom it floats, and you are without effort impelled to truth, to right and a perfect contentment.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Spiritual Laws
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Independence is the recognition of the fact that yours is the responsibility of judgment and nothing can help you escape it—that no substitute can do your thinking—that the vilest form of self-abasement and self-destruction is the subordination of your mind to the mind of another, the acceptance of an authority over your brain, the acceptance of his assertions as facts, his say-so as truth, his edicts as middle-man between your consciousness and your existence.
- Ayn Rand
Atlas Shrugged
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Is it not curious, that so vast a being as the whale should see the world through so small an eye, and hear the thunder through an ear which is smaller than a hare's? But if his eyes were broad as the lens of Herschel's great telescope; and his ears capacious as the porches of cathedrals; would that make him any longer of sight, or sharper of hearing? Not at all.—Why then do you try to "enlarge" your mind? Subtilize it
- Herman Melville
Moby-Dick or, The Whale
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
I have always thought that all philosophical debates are ultimately between the partisans of structure and the partisans of "goo.
- Alan Wilson Watts
The Essential Alan Watts
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
[On Jason Mashak's book SALTY AS A LIP, as reviewed in The Prague Post:] Mashak amalgamates various national, historical and religious traditions into a myth-mash that illuminates many sects' fanatical compartmentalizing, and the fact that so many religions and philosophies share similar goals, if not roots.
- Stephan Delbos
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
What you give your energy to must sustain you, not quielty drain you.
- Kayambila Mpulamasaka
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Sorry, moth,' he said. 'I'm afraid I've rather spoiled your night out. Presumably I've made some other moth a widow, or a widower—I've no idea what sex you are... were, I mean. But I didn't do you in with malice aforethought, old moth, take my word for it. I have no grudge against you, old moth, I do assure you. On the contrary, what I feel for you is love, the love of a tender morsel of moth-meat. I am a great lover of tender morsels, of vole-meat and mouse-meat, of the flesh of little birds and the innards of beetles, and of bite-sized bits of the wriggling worm. All must die to keep Eustace in good nick. And lastly I console you, my lepidopterous friend, with the thought that some day or night Eustace will drop off his perch and be loved in his turn, by the ants and the maggots.
- Dick King-Smith
Godhanger
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No heartbreak can make a poet!
Poetry doesn’t stem from a broken heart
which fell apart
merely because someone left
and left a few marks to be felt,
dealt with and smelt
with emptiness and shallowness
of the breast.
- Alok Mishra
Thoughts Between Life and Death
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Love is born into eve­ry human being: it calls back the halves of our original nature together; it tries to make one out of two and heal the wound of human nature.
...
[W]e used to be complete wholes in our original nature, and now ‘love’ is the name for our pursuit of wholeness, for our desire to be complete.
- Plato
The Symposium
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A man's at odds to know his mind cause his mind is aught he has to know it with. He can know his heart, but he don't want to. Rightly so. Best not to look in there. It ain't the heart of a creature that is bound in the way that God has set for it. You can find meanness in the least of creatures, but when God made man the devil was at his elbow. A creature that can do anything.
- Cormac McCarthy
Blood Meridian - Cormac McCarthy
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The World Is Ruled by Numbers
- Alexander Morpheigh
The Pythagorean
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chase the passion that grows your talent. And if you feel passionless, step out and travel-the world teaches what routine cannot.
- SaheL SabharwaL
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On the likeness of the moon, I point to the sun, and the fool looks at my shoe.
- Haidar Aljabiry
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My school is existence, not existentialism. No ism is sufficient, my home is integration.
- Abhijit Naskar
Nazmahal: Palace of Grace
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Human beings never think for themselves, they find it too uncomfortable. For the most part, members of our species simply repeat what they are told - and become upset if they are exposed to any different view. The characteristic human trait is not awareness but conformity, and the characteristic result is religious warfare. Other animals fight for territory or food; but, uniquely in the animal kingdom, human beings fight for 'beliefs.'... We are stubborn, self-destructive conformists. Any other view of our species is just a self-congratulatory delusion.
- Michael Crichton
The Lost World
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When you are lonely for a while don't get restless, if you had born alone, you are going to die alone then for sometime you can certainly live alone.
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A birth-date is a reminder to celebrate the life as well as to update the life.
- Amit Kalantri
Wealth of Words
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Intelligence is more important than strength, that is why earth is ruled by men and not by animals.
- Amit Kalantri
Wealth of Words
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Resources are hired to give results, not reasons.
- Amit Kalantri
Wealth of Words
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Never stop acquiring the commonsense, it is as good as the knowledge.
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
The decision is your own voice, an opinion is the echo of someone else's voice.
- Amit Kalantri
Wealth of Words
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
If thinking should precede acting, then acting must succeed thinking.
- Amit Kalantri
Wealth of Words
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Beloved, the passage of time is but a fleeting metric, for it is the accumulation of life's experiences that truly constitutes wisdom. The years may chronicle our journey, but it is the depth of our encounters, the richness of our struggles, and the breadth of our understanding that ultimately define the substance of our being.
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Happiness is a very pretty thing to feel, but very dry to talk about.
- Jeremy Bentham
The Panopticon Writings
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Place yourself in the middle of the stream of power and wisdom which animates all whom it floats, and you are without effort impelled to truth, to right and a perfect contentment.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Spiritual Laws
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Independence is the recognition of the fact that yours is the responsibility of judgment and nothing can help you escape it—that no substitute can do your thinking—that the vilest form of self-abasement and self-destruction is the subordination of your mind to the mind of another, the acceptance of an authority over your brain, the acceptance of his assertions as facts, his say-so as truth, his edicts as middle-man between your consciousness and your existence.
- Ayn Rand
Atlas Shrugged
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Is it not curious, that so vast a being as the whale should see the world through so small an eye, and hear the thunder through an ear which is smaller than a hare's? But if his eyes were broad as the lens of Herschel's great telescope; and his ears capacious as the porches of cathedrals; would that make him any longer of sight, or sharper of hearing? Not at all.—Why then do you try to "enlarge" your mind? Subtilize it
- Herman Melville
Moby-Dick or, The Whale
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
I have always thought that all philosophical debates are ultimately between the partisans of structure and the partisans of "goo.
- Alan Wilson Watts
The Essential Alan Watts
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
[On Jason Mashak's book SALTY AS A LIP, as reviewed in The Prague Post:] Mashak amalgamates various national, historical and religious traditions into a myth-mash that illuminates many sects' fanatical compartmentalizing, and the fact that so many religions and philosophies share similar goals, if not roots.
- Stephan Delbos
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
What you give your energy to must sustain you, not quielty drain you.
- Kayambila Mpulamasaka
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Sorry, moth,' he said. 'I'm afraid I've rather spoiled your night out. Presumably I've made some other moth a widow, or a widower—I've no idea what sex you are... were, I mean. But I didn't do you in with malice aforethought, old moth, take my word for it. I have no grudge against you, old moth, I do assure you. On the contrary, what I feel for you is love, the love of a tender morsel of moth-meat. I am a great lover of tender morsels, of vole-meat and mouse-meat, of the flesh of little birds and the innards of beetles, and of bite-sized bits of the wriggling worm. All must die to keep Eustace in good nick. And lastly I console you, my lepidopterous friend, with the thought that some day or night Eustace will drop off his perch and be loved in his turn, by the ants and the maggots.
- Dick King-Smith
Godhanger
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
No heartbreak can make a poet!
Poetry doesn’t stem from a broken heart
which fell apart
merely because someone left
and left a few marks to be felt,
dealt with and smelt
with emptiness and shallowness
of the breast.
- Alok Mishra
Thoughts Between Life and Death
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Love is born into eve­ry human being: it calls back the halves of our original nature together; it tries to make one out of two and heal the wound of human nature.
...
[W]e used to be complete wholes in our original nature, and now ‘love’ is the name for our pursuit of wholeness, for our desire to be complete.
- Plato
The Symposium
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
A man's at odds to know his mind cause his mind is aught he has to know it with. He can know his heart, but he don't want to. Rightly so. Best not to look in there. It ain't the heart of a creature that is bound in the way that God has set for it. You can find meanness in the least of creatures, but when God made man the devil was at his elbow. A creature that can do anything.
- Cormac McCarthy
Blood Meridian - Cormac McCarthy
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
The World Is Ruled by Numbers
- Alexander Morpheigh
The Pythagorean
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
chase the passion that grows your talent. And if you feel passionless, step out and travel-the world teaches what routine cannot.
- SaheL SabharwaL
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
On the likeness of the moon, I point to the sun, and the fool looks at my shoe.
- Haidar Aljabiry
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
My school is existence, not existentialism. No ism is sufficient, my home is integration.
- Abhijit Naskar
Nazmahal: Palace of Grace
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Human beings never think for themselves, they find it too uncomfortable. For the most part, members of our species simply repeat what they are told - and become upset if they are exposed to any different view. The characteristic human trait is not awareness but conformity, and the characteristic result is religious warfare. Other animals fight for territory or food; but, uniquely in the animal kingdom, human beings fight for 'beliefs.'... We are stubborn, self-destructive conformists. Any other view of our species is just a self-congratulatory delusion.
- Michael Crichton
The Lost World
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
When you are lonely for a while don't get restless, if you had born alone, you are going to die alone then for sometime you can certainly live alone.
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
A birth-date is a reminder to celebrate the life as well as to update the life.
- Amit Kalantri
Wealth of Words
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Intelligence is more important than strength, that is why earth is ruled by men and not by animals.
- Amit Kalantri
Wealth of Words
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Resources are hired to give results, not reasons.
- Amit Kalantri
Wealth of Words
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Never stop acquiring the commonsense, it is as good as the knowledge.
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
The decision is your own voice, an opinion is the echo of someone else's voice.
- Amit Kalantri
Wealth of Words
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
If thinking should precede acting, then acting must succeed thinking.
- Amit Kalantri
Wealth of Words
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Beloved, the passage of time is but a fleeting metric, for it is the accumulation of life's experiences that truly constitutes wisdom. The years may chronicle our journey, but it is the depth of our encounters, the richness of our struggles, and the breadth of our understanding that ultimately define the substance of our being.
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Happiness is a very pretty thing to feel, but very dry to talk about.
- Jeremy Bentham
The Panopticon Writings
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Place yourself in the middle of the stream of power and wisdom which animates all whom it floats, and you are without effort impelled to truth, to right and a perfect contentment.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Spiritual Laws
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Independence is the recognition of the fact that yours is the responsibility of judgment and nothing can help you escape it—that no substitute can do your thinking—that the vilest form of self-abasement and self-destruction is the subordination of your mind to the mind of another, the acceptance of an authority over your brain, the acceptance of his assertions as facts, his say-so as truth, his edicts as middle-man between your consciousness and your existence.
- Ayn Rand
Atlas Shrugged
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