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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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Believe me there is no such thing as great suffering, great regret, great memory....everything is forgotten, even a great love. That's what's sad about life, and also what's wonderful about it. There is only a way of looking at things, a way that comes to you every once in a while. That's why it's good to have had love in your life after all, to have had an unhappy passion- it gives you an alibi for the vague despairs we all suffer from.
- Albert Camus
A Happy Death
Topic: Philosophical
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Knowledge subverts love: in proportion as we penetrate our secrets, we come to loathe our kind, precisely because they resemble us.
Topic: Philosophical
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Do not ruin today with mourning tomorrow.
- Catherynne M. Valente
The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland in a Ship of Her Own Making
Topic: Philosophical
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God is an ever-receding pocket of scientific ignorance.
Topic: Philosophical, Religion
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Philosophy ... is a science, and as such has no articles of faith; accordingly, in it nothing can be assumed as existing except what is either positively given empirically, or demonstrated through indubitable conclusions.
- Arthur Schopenhauer
Parerga and Paralipomena
Topic: Philosophical
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If an angelic being fell from the sky and tried to live in this world of ours I think even they would commit many wrongs.
- Sui Ishida
Topic: Philosophical
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Every great cause begins as a movement, becomes a business, and eventually degenerates into a racket.
- Eric Hoffer
The Temper of Our Time
Topic: Philosophical
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The point of modernity is to live a life without illusions while not becoming disillusioned
- Antonio Gramsci
Topic: Philosophical
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A prudent man should always follow in the path trodden by great men and imitate those who are most excellent, so that if he does not attain to their greatness, at any rate he will get some tinge of it.
- Niccolo Machiavelli
The Prince
Topic: Philosophical
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Faith in faith' he answered himself. 'It isn't necessary to have something to believe in. It's only necessary to believe that somewhere there's something worthy of belief.
- Alfred Bester
The Stars My Destination
Topic: Philosophical
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Those who lack the courage will always find a philosophy to justify it.
Topic: Philosophical
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Just as one spoils the stomach by overfeeding and thereby impairs the whole body, so can one overload and choke the mind by giving it too much nourishment. For the more one reads the fewer are the traces left of what one has read; the mind is like a tablet that has been written over and over. Hence it is impossible to reflect; and it is only by reflection that one can assimilate what one has read. If one reads straight ahead without pondering over it later, what has been read does not take root, but is for the most part lost.
Topic: Philosophical
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I take no pride in hopeless longing; I wouldn't hold a stillborn aspiration. I'd want to have it, to make it, to live it.
- Ayn Rand
Atlas Shrugged
Topic: Philosophical
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I've often thought that there isn't any "I" at all; that we are simply the means of expression of something else; that when we think we are ourselves, we are simply the victims of a delusion.
- Aleister Crowley
Diary of a Drug Fiend
Topic: Philosophical
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The truth always carries the ambiguity of the words used to express it.
- Frank Herbert
God Emperor of Dune
Topic: Philosophical
NOT YET RATED ▼
I only know that I know nothing
Topic: Philosophical
NOT YET RATED ▼
I think that the task of philosophy is not to provide answers, but to show how the way we perceive a problem can be itself part of a problem.
Topic: Philosophical
NOT YET RATED ▼
Things are not always what they seem; the first appearance deceives many; the intelligence of a few perceives what has been carefully hidden.
- Phaedrus
Topic: Philosophical
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as soon as we renounce fiction and illusion, we lose reality itself; the moment we subtract fictions from reality, reality itself loses its discursive-logical consistency.
- Slavoj Žižek
Tarrying with the Negative: Kant, Hegel, and the Critique of Ideology
Topic: Philosophical
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How could they see anything but the shadows if they were never allowed to move their heads?
- Plato
The Allegory of the Cave
Topic: Philosophical
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The more powerful the class, the more it claims not to exist.
- Guy Debord
The Society of the Spectacle
Topic: Philosophical
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Pactum serva" - "Keep the faith
- Horace
Topic: Philosophical
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There's nothing fundamentally wrong with people. Given a story to enact that puts them in accord with the world, they will live in accord with the world. But given a story to enact that puts them at odds with the world, as yours does, they will live at odds with the world. Given a story to enact in which they are the lords of the world, they will ACT like lords of the world. And, given a story to enact in which the world is a foe to be conquered, they will conquer it like a foe, and one day, inevitably, their foe will lie bleeding to death at their feet, as the world is now.
- Daniel Quinn
Ishmael: An Adventure of the Mind and Spirit
Topic: Philosophical
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You don’t have to choose between being scientific and being compassionate.
- Robert M. Sapolsky
Behave: The Biology of Humans at Our Best and Worst
Topic: Philosophical
NOT YET RATED ▼
Believe me there is no such thing as great suffering, great regret, great memory....everything is forgotten, even a great love. That's what's sad about life, and also what's wonderful about it. There is only a way of looking at things, a way that comes to you every once in a while. That's why it's good to have had love in your life after all, to have had an unhappy passion- it gives you an alibi for the vague despairs we all suffer from.
- Albert Camus
A Happy Death
Topic: Philosophical
NOT YET RATED ▼
Knowledge subverts love: in proportion as we penetrate our secrets, we come to loathe our kind, precisely because they resemble us.
Topic: Philosophical
NOT YET RATED ▼
Do not ruin today with mourning tomorrow.
- Catherynne M. Valente
The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland in a Ship of Her Own Making
Topic: Philosophical
NOT YET RATED ▼
God is an ever-receding pocket of scientific ignorance.
Topic: Philosophical, Religion
NOT YET RATED ▼
Philosophy ... is a science, and as such has no articles of faith; accordingly, in it nothing can be assumed as existing except what is either positively given empirically, or demonstrated through indubitable conclusions.
- Arthur Schopenhauer
Parerga and Paralipomena
Topic: Philosophical
NOT YET RATED ▼
If an angelic being fell from the sky and tried to live in this world of ours I think even they would commit many wrongs.
- Sui Ishida
Topic: Philosophical
NOT YET RATED ▼
Every great cause begins as a movement, becomes a business, and eventually degenerates into a racket.
- Eric Hoffer
The Temper of Our Time
Topic: Philosophical
NOT YET RATED ▼
The point of modernity is to live a life without illusions while not becoming disillusioned
- Antonio Gramsci
Topic: Philosophical
NOT YET RATED ▼
A prudent man should always follow in the path trodden by great men and imitate those who are most excellent, so that if he does not attain to their greatness, at any rate he will get some tinge of it.
- Niccolo Machiavelli
The Prince
Topic: Philosophical
NOT YET RATED ▼
Faith in faith' he answered himself. 'It isn't necessary to have something to believe in. It's only necessary to believe that somewhere there's something worthy of belief.
- Alfred Bester
The Stars My Destination
Topic: Philosophical
NOT YET RATED ▼
Those who lack the courage will always find a philosophy to justify it.
Topic: Philosophical
NOT YET RATED ▼
Just as one spoils the stomach by overfeeding and thereby impairs the whole body, so can one overload and choke the mind by giving it too much nourishment. For the more one reads the fewer are the traces left of what one has read; the mind is like a tablet that has been written over and over. Hence it is impossible to reflect; and it is only by reflection that one can assimilate what one has read. If one reads straight ahead without pondering over it later, what has been read does not take root, but is for the most part lost.
Topic: Philosophical
NOT YET RATED ▼
I take no pride in hopeless longing; I wouldn't hold a stillborn aspiration. I'd want to have it, to make it, to live it.
- Ayn Rand
Atlas Shrugged
Topic: Philosophical
NOT YET RATED ▼
I've often thought that there isn't any "I" at all; that we are simply the means of expression of something else; that when we think we are ourselves, we are simply the victims of a delusion.
- Aleister Crowley
Diary of a Drug Fiend
Topic: Philosophical
NOT YET RATED ▼
The truth always carries the ambiguity of the words used to express it.
- Frank Herbert
God Emperor of Dune
Topic: Philosophical
NOT YET RATED ▼
I only know that I know nothing
Topic: Philosophical
NOT YET RATED ▼
I think that the task of philosophy is not to provide answers, but to show how the way we perceive a problem can be itself part of a problem.
Topic: Philosophical
NOT YET RATED ▼
Things are not always what they seem; the first appearance deceives many; the intelligence of a few perceives what has been carefully hidden.
- Phaedrus
Topic: Philosophical
NOT YET RATED ▼
as soon as we renounce fiction and illusion, we lose reality itself; the moment we subtract fictions from reality, reality itself loses its discursive-logical consistency.
- Slavoj Žižek
Tarrying with the Negative: Kant, Hegel, and the Critique of Ideology
Topic: Philosophical
NOT YET RATED ▼
How could they see anything but the shadows if they were never allowed to move their heads?
- Plato
The Allegory of the Cave
Topic: Philosophical
NOT YET RATED ▼
The more powerful the class, the more it claims not to exist.
- Guy Debord
The Society of the Spectacle
Topic: Philosophical
NOT YET RATED ▼
Pactum serva" - "Keep the faith
- Horace
Topic: Philosophical
NOT YET RATED ▼
There's nothing fundamentally wrong with people. Given a story to enact that puts them in accord with the world, they will live in accord with the world. But given a story to enact that puts them at odds with the world, as yours does, they will live at odds with the world. Given a story to enact in which they are the lords of the world, they will ACT like lords of the world. And, given a story to enact in which the world is a foe to be conquered, they will conquer it like a foe, and one day, inevitably, their foe will lie bleeding to death at their feet, as the world is now.
- Daniel Quinn
Ishmael: An Adventure of the Mind and Spirit
Topic: Philosophical
NOT YET RATED ▼
You don’t have to choose between being scientific and being compassionate.
- Robert M. Sapolsky
Behave: The Biology of Humans at Our Best and Worst
Topic: Philosophical
NOT YET RATED ▼
Believe me there is no such thing as great suffering, great regret, great memory....everything is forgotten, even a great love. That's what's sad about life, and also what's wonderful about it. There is only a way of looking at things, a way that comes to you every once in a while. That's why it's good to have had love in your life after all, to have had an unhappy passion- it gives you an alibi for the vague despairs we all suffer from.
- Albert Camus
A Happy Death
Topic: Philosophical
NOT YET RATED ▼
Knowledge subverts love: in proportion as we penetrate our secrets, we come to loathe our kind, precisely because they resemble us.
Topic: Philosophical
NOT YET RATED ▼
Do not ruin today with mourning tomorrow.
- Catherynne M. Valente
The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland in a Ship of Her Own Making
Topic: Philosophical
NOT YET RATED ▼
God is an ever-receding pocket of scientific ignorance.
Topic: Philosophical, Religion
NOT YET RATED ▼
Philosophy ... is a science, and as such has no articles of faith; accordingly, in it nothing can be assumed as existing except what is either positively given empirically, or demonstrated through indubitable conclusions.
- Arthur Schopenhauer
Parerga and Paralipomena
Topic: Philosophical
NOT YET RATED ▼
If an angelic being fell from the sky and tried to live in this world of ours I think even they would commit many wrongs.
- Sui Ishida
Topic: Philosophical
NOT YET RATED ▼
Every great cause begins as a movement, becomes a business, and eventually degenerates into a racket.
- Eric Hoffer
The Temper of Our Time
Topic: Philosophical
NOT YET RATED ▼
The point of modernity is to live a life without illusions while not becoming disillusioned
- Antonio Gramsci
Topic: Philosophical
NOT YET RATED ▼
A prudent man should always follow in the path trodden by great men and imitate those who are most excellent, so that if he does not attain to their greatness, at any rate he will get some tinge of it.
- Niccolo Machiavelli
The Prince
Topic: Philosophical
NOT YET RATED ▼
Faith in faith' he answered himself. 'It isn't necessary to have something to believe in. It's only necessary to believe that somewhere there's something worthy of belief.
- Alfred Bester
The Stars My Destination
Topic: Philosophical
NOT YET RATED ▼
Those who lack the courage will always find a philosophy to justify it.
Topic: Philosophical
NOT YET RATED ▼
Just as one spoils the stomach by overfeeding and thereby impairs the whole body, so can one overload and choke the mind by giving it too much nourishment. For the more one reads the fewer are the traces left of what one has read; the mind is like a tablet that has been written over and over. Hence it is impossible to reflect; and it is only by reflection that one can assimilate what one has read. If one reads straight ahead without pondering over it later, what has been read does not take root, but is for the most part lost.
Topic: Philosophical
NOT YET RATED ▼
I take no pride in hopeless longing; I wouldn't hold a stillborn aspiration. I'd want to have it, to make it, to live it.
- Ayn Rand
Atlas Shrugged
Topic: Philosophical
NOT YET RATED ▼
I've often thought that there isn't any "I" at all; that we are simply the means of expression of something else; that when we think we are ourselves, we are simply the victims of a delusion.
- Aleister Crowley
Diary of a Drug Fiend
Topic: Philosophical
NOT YET RATED ▼
The truth always carries the ambiguity of the words used to express it.
- Frank Herbert
God Emperor of Dune
Topic: Philosophical
NOT YET RATED ▼
I only know that I know nothing
Topic: Philosophical
NOT YET RATED ▼
I think that the task of philosophy is not to provide answers, but to show how the way we perceive a problem can be itself part of a problem.
Topic: Philosophical
NOT YET RATED ▼
Things are not always what they seem; the first appearance deceives many; the intelligence of a few perceives what has been carefully hidden.
- Phaedrus
Topic: Philosophical
NOT YET RATED ▼
as soon as we renounce fiction and illusion, we lose reality itself; the moment we subtract fictions from reality, reality itself loses its discursive-logical consistency.
- Slavoj Žižek
Tarrying with the Negative: Kant, Hegel, and the Critique of Ideology
Topic: Philosophical
NOT YET RATED ▼
How could they see anything but the shadows if they were never allowed to move their heads?
- Plato
The Allegory of the Cave
Topic: Philosophical
NOT YET RATED ▼
The more powerful the class, the more it claims not to exist.
- Guy Debord
The Society of the Spectacle
Topic: Philosophical
NOT YET RATED ▼
Pactum serva" - "Keep the faith
- Horace
Topic: Philosophical
NOT YET RATED ▼
There's nothing fundamentally wrong with people. Given a story to enact that puts them in accord with the world, they will live in accord with the world. But given a story to enact that puts them at odds with the world, as yours does, they will live at odds with the world. Given a story to enact in which they are the lords of the world, they will ACT like lords of the world. And, given a story to enact in which the world is a foe to be conquered, they will conquer it like a foe, and one day, inevitably, their foe will lie bleeding to death at their feet, as the world is now.
- Daniel Quinn
Ishmael: An Adventure of the Mind and Spirit
Topic: Philosophical
NOT YET RATED ▼
You don’t have to choose between being scientific and being compassionate.
- Robert M. Sapolsky
Behave: The Biology of Humans at Our Best and Worst
Topic: Philosophical
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