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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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Protest beyond the law is not a departure from democracy; it is absolutely essential to it.
- Howard Zinn
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If you don’t have a strategy, you’re part of someone else’s strategy.
- Alvin Toffler
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People who deny the existence of dragons are often eaten by dragons. From within.
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Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed, citizens can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has.
- Margaret Mead
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What you are is God's gift to you, what you become is your gift to God.
- Hans Urs von Balthasar
Prayer
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Fault always lies in the same place: with him weak enough to lay blame.
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No lake so still but it has its wave.
No circle so perfect but that it has its blur.
I would change things for you if I could; As I can't you must take them as they are.
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As I naturally go through a full range of emotions in my life, I mustn’t feel ashamed for feeling lost, for it is honest and human to feel such.
- Forrest Curran
Purple Buddha Project: Purple Book of Self-Love
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Time is an illusion. Lunchtime doubly so.
- Douglas Adams
The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy
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I think I am, therefore, I am... I think.
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Truth would quickly cease to be stranger than fiction, once we got as used to it.
- H. L. Mencken
A Little Book In C Major
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I was within and without, simultaneously enchanted and repelled by the inexhaustible variety of life.
- Fitzgerald F. Scott
The Great Gatsby
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A truth that's told with bad intent
Beats all the lies you can invent.
- William Blake
Auguries of Innocence
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If you win, you need not have to explain...If you lose, you should not be there to explain!
- Adolf Hitler
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Man suffers only because he takes seriously what the gods made for fun.
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If anyone tells you that a certain person speaks ill of you, do not make excuses about what is said of you but answer, "He was ignorant of my other faults, else he would not have mentioned these alone.
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The day the power of love overrules the love of power, the world will know peace.
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You didn't kill him. He would have killed you, but you didn't kill him."
"So? He was stupid. If I killed everyone who was stupid, I wouldn't have time to sleep.
- Tamora Pierce
In the Hand of the Goddess
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The legitimate powers of government extend to such acts only as are injurious to others. It does me no injury for my neighbor to say there are twenty gods or no god. It neither picks my pocket nor breaks my leg.
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Don't explain your philosophy. Embody it.
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For, after all, how do we know that two and two make four? Or that the force of gravity works? Or that the past is unchangeable? If both the past and the external world exist only in the mind, and if the mind itself is controllable – what then?
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Every strike brings me closer to the next home run.
- Babe Ruth
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She said, "It's not life or death, the labyrinth."
"Um, okay. So what is it?"
"Suffering," she said. "Doing wrong and having wrong things happen to you. That's the problem. Bolivar was talking about the pain, not about the living or dying. How do you get out of the labyrinth of suffering?... Nothing's wrong. But there's always suffering, Pudge. Homework or malaria or having a boyfriend who lives far away when there's a good-looking boy lying next to you. Suffering is universal. It's the one thing Buddhists, Christians, and Muslims are all worried about.
- John Green
Looking for Alaska
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If anyone on the verge of action should judge himself according to the outcome, he would never begin.
- Søren Kierkegaard
Fear and Trembling
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Protest beyond the law is not a departure from democracy; it is absolutely essential to it.
- Howard Zinn
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If you don’t have a strategy, you’re part of someone else’s strategy.
- Alvin Toffler
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People who deny the existence of dragons are often eaten by dragons. From within.
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Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed, citizens can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has.
- Margaret Mead
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What you are is God's gift to you, what you become is your gift to God.
- Hans Urs von Balthasar
Prayer
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Fault always lies in the same place: with him weak enough to lay blame.
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No lake so still but it has its wave.
No circle so perfect but that it has its blur.
I would change things for you if I could; As I can't you must take them as they are.
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As I naturally go through a full range of emotions in my life, I mustn’t feel ashamed for feeling lost, for it is honest and human to feel such.
- Forrest Curran
Purple Buddha Project: Purple Book of Self-Love
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Time is an illusion. Lunchtime doubly so.
- Douglas Adams
The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy
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I think I am, therefore, I am... I think.
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Truth would quickly cease to be stranger than fiction, once we got as used to it.
- H. L. Mencken
A Little Book In C Major
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I was within and without, simultaneously enchanted and repelled by the inexhaustible variety of life.
- Fitzgerald F. Scott
The Great Gatsby
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A truth that's told with bad intent
Beats all the lies you can invent.
- William Blake
Auguries of Innocence
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If you win, you need not have to explain...If you lose, you should not be there to explain!
- Adolf Hitler
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Man suffers only because he takes seriously what the gods made for fun.
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If anyone tells you that a certain person speaks ill of you, do not make excuses about what is said of you but answer, "He was ignorant of my other faults, else he would not have mentioned these alone.
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The day the power of love overrules the love of power, the world will know peace.
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You didn't kill him. He would have killed you, but you didn't kill him."
"So? He was stupid. If I killed everyone who was stupid, I wouldn't have time to sleep.
- Tamora Pierce
In the Hand of the Goddess
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The legitimate powers of government extend to such acts only as are injurious to others. It does me no injury for my neighbor to say there are twenty gods or no god. It neither picks my pocket nor breaks my leg.
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Don't explain your philosophy. Embody it.
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
For, after all, how do we know that two and two make four? Or that the force of gravity works? Or that the past is unchangeable? If both the past and the external world exist only in the mind, and if the mind itself is controllable – what then?
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Every strike brings me closer to the next home run.
- Babe Ruth
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
She said, "It's not life or death, the labyrinth."
"Um, okay. So what is it?"
"Suffering," she said. "Doing wrong and having wrong things happen to you. That's the problem. Bolivar was talking about the pain, not about the living or dying. How do you get out of the labyrinth of suffering?... Nothing's wrong. But there's always suffering, Pudge. Homework or malaria or having a boyfriend who lives far away when there's a good-looking boy lying next to you. Suffering is universal. It's the one thing Buddhists, Christians, and Muslims are all worried about.
- John Green
Looking for Alaska
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If anyone on the verge of action should judge himself according to the outcome, he would never begin.
- Søren Kierkegaard
Fear and Trembling
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Protest beyond the law is not a departure from democracy; it is absolutely essential to it.
- Howard Zinn
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
If you don’t have a strategy, you’re part of someone else’s strategy.
- Alvin Toffler
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
People who deny the existence of dragons are often eaten by dragons. From within.
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed, citizens can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has.
- Margaret Mead
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
What you are is God's gift to you, what you become is your gift to God.
- Hans Urs von Balthasar
Prayer
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Fault always lies in the same place: with him weak enough to lay blame.
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
No lake so still but it has its wave.
No circle so perfect but that it has its blur.
I would change things for you if I could; As I can't you must take them as they are.
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
As I naturally go through a full range of emotions in my life, I mustn’t feel ashamed for feeling lost, for it is honest and human to feel such.
- Forrest Curran
Purple Buddha Project: Purple Book of Self-Love
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Time is an illusion. Lunchtime doubly so.
- Douglas Adams
The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
I think I am, therefore, I am... I think.
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Truth would quickly cease to be stranger than fiction, once we got as used to it.
- H. L. Mencken
A Little Book In C Major
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
I was within and without, simultaneously enchanted and repelled by the inexhaustible variety of life.
- Fitzgerald F. Scott
The Great Gatsby
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
A truth that's told with bad intent
Beats all the lies you can invent.
- William Blake
Auguries of Innocence
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
If you win, you need not have to explain...If you lose, you should not be there to explain!
- Adolf Hitler
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Man suffers only because he takes seriously what the gods made for fun.
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
If anyone tells you that a certain person speaks ill of you, do not make excuses about what is said of you but answer, "He was ignorant of my other faults, else he would not have mentioned these alone.
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
The day the power of love overrules the love of power, the world will know peace.
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
You didn't kill him. He would have killed you, but you didn't kill him."
"So? He was stupid. If I killed everyone who was stupid, I wouldn't have time to sleep.
- Tamora Pierce
In the Hand of the Goddess
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
The legitimate powers of government extend to such acts only as are injurious to others. It does me no injury for my neighbor to say there are twenty gods or no god. It neither picks my pocket nor breaks my leg.
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Don't explain your philosophy. Embody it.
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
For, after all, how do we know that two and two make four? Or that the force of gravity works? Or that the past is unchangeable? If both the past and the external world exist only in the mind, and if the mind itself is controllable – what then?
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Every strike brings me closer to the next home run.
- Babe Ruth
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
She said, "It's not life or death, the labyrinth."
"Um, okay. So what is it?"
"Suffering," she said. "Doing wrong and having wrong things happen to you. That's the problem. Bolivar was talking about the pain, not about the living or dying. How do you get out of the labyrinth of suffering?... Nothing's wrong. But there's always suffering, Pudge. Homework or malaria or having a boyfriend who lives far away when there's a good-looking boy lying next to you. Suffering is universal. It's the one thing Buddhists, Christians, and Muslims are all worried about.
- John Green
Looking for Alaska
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
If anyone on the verge of action should judge himself according to the outcome, he would never begin.
- Søren Kierkegaard
Fear and Trembling
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