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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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the Real-World was a sprawling mess of a book in need of a good editor.
- Jasper Fforde
One of Our Thursdays Is Missing
Topic: Philosophical
NOT YET RATED ▼
You know," Daddy said, "it's some that can live their whole life out without asking about it and it's others has to know why it is, and this boy is one of the latters. He's going to be into everything!
Topic: Philosophical
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When you use your energy and resources to punish people, you run out of energy and resources to protect people.
- Kelly Bryson
Don't Be Nice, Be Real: Balancing Passion for Self with Compassion for Others
Topic: Philosophical
NOT YET RATED ▼
He will essentially follow the language of the spectacle, for it is the only one he is familiar with.
- Guy Debord
Topic: Philosophical
NOT YET RATED ▼
The view that man was ever to be drawn by some vision of the unattainable shining ahead, doomed ever to aspire, but not to achieve, my life and my values could not bring me to that.
- Ayn Rand
Atlas Shrugged
Topic: Philosophical
NOT YET RATED ▼
The best physician is also a philosopher.
- Claudius Galenus
Topic: Philosophical
NOT YET RATED ▼
where the telescope ends the microscope begins, and who can say which has the wider vision?
- Victor Hugo
Les Misérables
Topic: Philosophical
NOT YET RATED ▼
Peace is not so much a political mandate as it is a shared state of consciousness that remains elevated and intact only to the degree that those who value it volunteer their existence as living examples of the same... Peace ends with the unraveling of individual hope and the emergence of the will to worship violence as a healer of private and social dis-ease.
- Aberjhani
The American Poet Who Went Home Again
Topic: Philosophical
NOT YET RATED ▼
But this wealth of information produced little or no insight.
- Stephen King
The Gunslinger
Topic: Philosophical
NOT YET RATED ▼
Contrary to the ecologists, nature does not stand still and does not maintain the kind of equilibrium that guarantees the survival of any particular species - least of all the survival of her greatest and most fragile product: man.
Topic: Philosophical
NOT YET RATED ▼
You can believe in whatsoever you like, but the truth remains the truth, no matter how sweet the lie may taste.
Topic: Philosophical, Religion
NOT YET RATED ▼
Ignorance isn't a sword. It's a weight that drags a soul swirling to the bottom of the sea.
- Melodie Ramone
Topic: Philosophical
NOT YET RATED ▼
In actual fact. The manifold sexualities - those which appear with the different ages (sexualities of the infant or the child), those which become fixated on particular tastes or practices (the sexuality of the invert, the gerontophile, the fetishist), those which, in a diffuse manner, invest relationships (the sexuality of doctor and patient, teacher and student, psychiatrist and mental patient), those which haunt spaces (the sexuality of the home, the school, the prison)- all form the correlate of exact procedures of power.
- Michel Foucault
The History of Sexuality, Volume 1: An Introduction
Topic: Philosophical
NOT YET RATED ▼
If we cannot comprehend God in his visible works, how then in his inconceivable thoughts, that call the works into being?
- Edgar Allan Poe
The Imp of the Perverse
Topic: Philosophical
NOT YET RATED ▼
Material wealth can be bad for your health.
Because when you’re in the soil it’ll make your blood boil,
that you couldn’t keep it all for your self.
Topic: Philosophical
NOT YET RATED ▼
Always ask the questions you want to, life is too short to know if you'll get a second chance to ask , and afterlife is probably too long to wonder what the answer may be.
- Kaitlin Hollon
Topic: Philosophical
NOT YET RATED ▼
I never quite understood the question that says, is the glass half empty or half full? What’s the difference? Eventually it’ll end up empty and in the trash.
- Cyndi Goodgame
Under Cover
Topic: Philosophical
NOT YET RATED ▼
This is the best thing to wear for today, you understand. Because I don't like women in skirts and the best thing is to wear pantyhose or some pants under a short skirt, I think. Then you have the pants under the skirt and then you can pull the stockings up over the pants underneath the skirt. And you can always take off the skirt and use it as a cape. So I think this is the best costume for today.
- Edith Bouvier Beale
Topic: Philosophical
NOT YET RATED ▼
Class is a bubble, formed by privilege, shaping and manipulating your concept of reality. But it can at least be brought to mind; acknowledged comprehended, even atoned for through transformative action. By comparing your privilege with that of others you may be able to modify both your world and the worlds outside your world - if the will is there to do it. Suffering is not like that. Suffering has an absolution relation to the suffering individual - it cannot be easily mediated by a third term like ‘privilege’.
- Zadie Smith
Intimations
Topic: Philosophical
NOT YET RATED ▼
The world was floods above and fire below
- Gregory Maguire
Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West
Topic: Philosophical
NOT YET RATED ▼
We are all glittering stars and one day we will come together in the brightest star of all – God himself. This is humanity’s destiny. Is that not an inspiring vision of humanity? We are not mere humans; we are divine beings, a community of gods en route to becoming God himself
- Michael Faust
The Right-Brain God
Topic: Philosophical, Religion
NOT YET RATED ▼
If we wanted to construct a basic philosophical attitude from these scientific utterances of Pauli's, at first we would be inclined to infer from them an extreme rationalism and a fundamentally skeptical point of view. In reality however, behind this outward display of criticism and skepticism lay concealed a deep philosophical interest even in those dark areas of reality of the human mind which elude the grasp of reason. And while the power of fascination emanating from Pauli's analyses of physical problems was admittedly due in some measure to the detailed and penetrating clarity of his formulations, the rest was derived from a constant contact with the field of creative processes, for which no rational formulation as yet exists.
- Werner Heisenberg
Physics and Philosophy: The Revolution in Modern Science
Topic: Philosophical
NOT YET RATED ▼
The contrast between genetic and environmental, between nature and nurture, is not a contrast between fixed and changeable. It is a fallacy of biological determinism to say that if differences are in the genes, no change can occur.
- Richard C. Lewontin
Biology as Ideology: The Doctrine of DNA
Topic: Philosophical
NOT YET RATED ▼
By the way, if you get mad at your Mac laptop and wonder who designed this demonic device, notice the manufacturer's icon on top: an apple with a bite out of it.
- Peter Kreeft
Jesus-Shock
Topic: Philosophical
NOT YET RATED ▼
the Real-World was a sprawling mess of a book in need of a good editor.
- Jasper Fforde
One of Our Thursdays Is Missing
Topic: Philosophical
NOT YET RATED ▼
You know," Daddy said, "it's some that can live their whole life out without asking about it and it's others has to know why it is, and this boy is one of the latters. He's going to be into everything!
Topic: Philosophical
NOT YET RATED ▼
When you use your energy and resources to punish people, you run out of energy and resources to protect people.
- Kelly Bryson
Don't Be Nice, Be Real: Balancing Passion for Self with Compassion for Others
Topic: Philosophical
NOT YET RATED ▼
He will essentially follow the language of the spectacle, for it is the only one he is familiar with.
- Guy Debord
Topic: Philosophical
NOT YET RATED ▼
The view that man was ever to be drawn by some vision of the unattainable shining ahead, doomed ever to aspire, but not to achieve, my life and my values could not bring me to that.
- Ayn Rand
Atlas Shrugged
Topic: Philosophical
NOT YET RATED ▼
The best physician is also a philosopher.
- Claudius Galenus
Topic: Philosophical
NOT YET RATED ▼
where the telescope ends the microscope begins, and who can say which has the wider vision?
- Victor Hugo
Les Misérables
Topic: Philosophical
NOT YET RATED ▼
Peace is not so much a political mandate as it is a shared state of consciousness that remains elevated and intact only to the degree that those who value it volunteer their existence as living examples of the same... Peace ends with the unraveling of individual hope and the emergence of the will to worship violence as a healer of private and social dis-ease.
- Aberjhani
The American Poet Who Went Home Again
Topic: Philosophical
NOT YET RATED ▼
But this wealth of information produced little or no insight.
- Stephen King
The Gunslinger
Topic: Philosophical
NOT YET RATED ▼
Contrary to the ecologists, nature does not stand still and does not maintain the kind of equilibrium that guarantees the survival of any particular species - least of all the survival of her greatest and most fragile product: man.
Topic: Philosophical
NOT YET RATED ▼
You can believe in whatsoever you like, but the truth remains the truth, no matter how sweet the lie may taste.
Topic: Philosophical, Religion
NOT YET RATED ▼
Ignorance isn't a sword. It's a weight that drags a soul swirling to the bottom of the sea.
- Melodie Ramone
Topic: Philosophical
NOT YET RATED ▼
In actual fact. The manifold sexualities - those which appear with the different ages (sexualities of the infant or the child), those which become fixated on particular tastes or practices (the sexuality of the invert, the gerontophile, the fetishist), those which, in a diffuse manner, invest relationships (the sexuality of doctor and patient, teacher and student, psychiatrist and mental patient), those which haunt spaces (the sexuality of the home, the school, the prison)- all form the correlate of exact procedures of power.
- Michel Foucault
The History of Sexuality, Volume 1: An Introduction
Topic: Philosophical
NOT YET RATED ▼
If we cannot comprehend God in his visible works, how then in his inconceivable thoughts, that call the works into being?
- Edgar Allan Poe
The Imp of the Perverse
Topic: Philosophical
NOT YET RATED ▼
Material wealth can be bad for your health.
Because when you’re in the soil it’ll make your blood boil,
that you couldn’t keep it all for your self.
Topic: Philosophical
NOT YET RATED ▼
Always ask the questions you want to, life is too short to know if you'll get a second chance to ask , and afterlife is probably too long to wonder what the answer may be.
- Kaitlin Hollon
Topic: Philosophical
NOT YET RATED ▼
I never quite understood the question that says, is the glass half empty or half full? What’s the difference? Eventually it’ll end up empty and in the trash.
- Cyndi Goodgame
Under Cover
Topic: Philosophical
NOT YET RATED ▼
This is the best thing to wear for today, you understand. Because I don't like women in skirts and the best thing is to wear pantyhose or some pants under a short skirt, I think. Then you have the pants under the skirt and then you can pull the stockings up over the pants underneath the skirt. And you can always take off the skirt and use it as a cape. So I think this is the best costume for today.
- Edith Bouvier Beale
Topic: Philosophical
NOT YET RATED ▼
Class is a bubble, formed by privilege, shaping and manipulating your concept of reality. But it can at least be brought to mind; acknowledged comprehended, even atoned for through transformative action. By comparing your privilege with that of others you may be able to modify both your world and the worlds outside your world - if the will is there to do it. Suffering is not like that. Suffering has an absolution relation to the suffering individual - it cannot be easily mediated by a third term like ‘privilege’.
- Zadie Smith
Intimations
Topic: Philosophical
NOT YET RATED ▼
The world was floods above and fire below
- Gregory Maguire
Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West
Topic: Philosophical
NOT YET RATED ▼
We are all glittering stars and one day we will come together in the brightest star of all – God himself. This is humanity’s destiny. Is that not an inspiring vision of humanity? We are not mere humans; we are divine beings, a community of gods en route to becoming God himself
- Michael Faust
The Right-Brain God
Topic: Philosophical, Religion
NOT YET RATED ▼
If we wanted to construct a basic philosophical attitude from these scientific utterances of Pauli's, at first we would be inclined to infer from them an extreme rationalism and a fundamentally skeptical point of view. In reality however, behind this outward display of criticism and skepticism lay concealed a deep philosophical interest even in those dark areas of reality of the human mind which elude the grasp of reason. And while the power of fascination emanating from Pauli's analyses of physical problems was admittedly due in some measure to the detailed and penetrating clarity of his formulations, the rest was derived from a constant contact with the field of creative processes, for which no rational formulation as yet exists.
- Werner Heisenberg
Physics and Philosophy: The Revolution in Modern Science
Topic: Philosophical
NOT YET RATED ▼
The contrast between genetic and environmental, between nature and nurture, is not a contrast between fixed and changeable. It is a fallacy of biological determinism to say that if differences are in the genes, no change can occur.
- Richard C. Lewontin
Biology as Ideology: The Doctrine of DNA
Topic: Philosophical
NOT YET RATED ▼
By the way, if you get mad at your Mac laptop and wonder who designed this demonic device, notice the manufacturer's icon on top: an apple with a bite out of it.
- Peter Kreeft
Jesus-Shock
Topic: Philosophical
NOT YET RATED ▼
the Real-World was a sprawling mess of a book in need of a good editor.
- Jasper Fforde
One of Our Thursdays Is Missing
Topic: Philosophical
NOT YET RATED ▼
You know," Daddy said, "it's some that can live their whole life out without asking about it and it's others has to know why it is, and this boy is one of the latters. He's going to be into everything!
Topic: Philosophical
NOT YET RATED ▼
When you use your energy and resources to punish people, you run out of energy and resources to protect people.
- Kelly Bryson
Don't Be Nice, Be Real: Balancing Passion for Self with Compassion for Others
Topic: Philosophical
NOT YET RATED ▼
He will essentially follow the language of the spectacle, for it is the only one he is familiar with.
- Guy Debord
Topic: Philosophical
NOT YET RATED ▼
The view that man was ever to be drawn by some vision of the unattainable shining ahead, doomed ever to aspire, but not to achieve, my life and my values could not bring me to that.
- Ayn Rand
Atlas Shrugged
Topic: Philosophical
NOT YET RATED ▼
The best physician is also a philosopher.
- Claudius Galenus
Topic: Philosophical
NOT YET RATED ▼
where the telescope ends the microscope begins, and who can say which has the wider vision?
- Victor Hugo
Les Misérables
Topic: Philosophical
NOT YET RATED ▼
Peace is not so much a political mandate as it is a shared state of consciousness that remains elevated and intact only to the degree that those who value it volunteer their existence as living examples of the same... Peace ends with the unraveling of individual hope and the emergence of the will to worship violence as a healer of private and social dis-ease.
- Aberjhani
The American Poet Who Went Home Again
Topic: Philosophical
NOT YET RATED ▼
But this wealth of information produced little or no insight.
- Stephen King
The Gunslinger
Topic: Philosophical
NOT YET RATED ▼
Contrary to the ecologists, nature does not stand still and does not maintain the kind of equilibrium that guarantees the survival of any particular species - least of all the survival of her greatest and most fragile product: man.
Topic: Philosophical
NOT YET RATED ▼
You can believe in whatsoever you like, but the truth remains the truth, no matter how sweet the lie may taste.
Topic: Philosophical, Religion
NOT YET RATED ▼
Ignorance isn't a sword. It's a weight that drags a soul swirling to the bottom of the sea.
- Melodie Ramone
Topic: Philosophical
NOT YET RATED ▼
In actual fact. The manifold sexualities - those which appear with the different ages (sexualities of the infant or the child), those which become fixated on particular tastes or practices (the sexuality of the invert, the gerontophile, the fetishist), those which, in a diffuse manner, invest relationships (the sexuality of doctor and patient, teacher and student, psychiatrist and mental patient), those which haunt spaces (the sexuality of the home, the school, the prison)- all form the correlate of exact procedures of power.
- Michel Foucault
The History of Sexuality, Volume 1: An Introduction
Topic: Philosophical
NOT YET RATED ▼
If we cannot comprehend God in his visible works, how then in his inconceivable thoughts, that call the works into being?
- Edgar Allan Poe
The Imp of the Perverse
Topic: Philosophical
NOT YET RATED ▼
Material wealth can be bad for your health.
Because when you’re in the soil it’ll make your blood boil,
that you couldn’t keep it all for your self.
Topic: Philosophical
NOT YET RATED ▼
Always ask the questions you want to, life is too short to know if you'll get a second chance to ask , and afterlife is probably too long to wonder what the answer may be.
- Kaitlin Hollon
Topic: Philosophical
NOT YET RATED ▼
I never quite understood the question that says, is the glass half empty or half full? What’s the difference? Eventually it’ll end up empty and in the trash.
- Cyndi Goodgame
Under Cover
Topic: Philosophical
NOT YET RATED ▼
This is the best thing to wear for today, you understand. Because I don't like women in skirts and the best thing is to wear pantyhose or some pants under a short skirt, I think. Then you have the pants under the skirt and then you can pull the stockings up over the pants underneath the skirt. And you can always take off the skirt and use it as a cape. So I think this is the best costume for today.
- Edith Bouvier Beale
Topic: Philosophical
NOT YET RATED ▼
Class is a bubble, formed by privilege, shaping and manipulating your concept of reality. But it can at least be brought to mind; acknowledged comprehended, even atoned for through transformative action. By comparing your privilege with that of others you may be able to modify both your world and the worlds outside your world - if the will is there to do it. Suffering is not like that. Suffering has an absolution relation to the suffering individual - it cannot be easily mediated by a third term like ‘privilege’.
- Zadie Smith
Intimations
Topic: Philosophical
NOT YET RATED ▼
The world was floods above and fire below
- Gregory Maguire
Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West
Topic: Philosophical
NOT YET RATED ▼
We are all glittering stars and one day we will come together in the brightest star of all – God himself. This is humanity’s destiny. Is that not an inspiring vision of humanity? We are not mere humans; we are divine beings, a community of gods en route to becoming God himself
- Michael Faust
The Right-Brain God
Topic: Philosophical, Religion
NOT YET RATED ▼
If we wanted to construct a basic philosophical attitude from these scientific utterances of Pauli's, at first we would be inclined to infer from them an extreme rationalism and a fundamentally skeptical point of view. In reality however, behind this outward display of criticism and skepticism lay concealed a deep philosophical interest even in those dark areas of reality of the human mind which elude the grasp of reason. And while the power of fascination emanating from Pauli's analyses of physical problems was admittedly due in some measure to the detailed and penetrating clarity of his formulations, the rest was derived from a constant contact with the field of creative processes, for which no rational formulation as yet exists.
- Werner Heisenberg
Physics and Philosophy: The Revolution in Modern Science
Topic: Philosophical
NOT YET RATED ▼
The contrast between genetic and environmental, between nature and nurture, is not a contrast between fixed and changeable. It is a fallacy of biological determinism to say that if differences are in the genes, no change can occur.
- Richard C. Lewontin
Biology as Ideology: The Doctrine of DNA
Topic: Philosophical
NOT YET RATED ▼
By the way, if you get mad at your Mac laptop and wonder who designed this demonic device, notice the manufacturer's icon on top: an apple with a bite out of it.
- Peter Kreeft
Jesus-Shock
Topic: Philosophical
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