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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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Try for once to justify the meaning of your existence as it were a posteriori by setting yourself an aim, a goal... an exalted and noble 'to this end.' Perish in pursuit of this and only this
- Friedrich Nietzsche
Untimely Meditations
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The price we have paid for expecting to be so much more than our ancestors is a perpetual anxiety that we are far from being all we might be.
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A modern philosopher who has never once suspected himself of being a charlatan must be such a shallow mind that his work is probably not worth reading.
- Leszek Kolakowski
Metaphysical Horror
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Medicine rests upon four pillars—philosophy, astronomy, alchemy, and ethics. The first pillar is the philosophical knowledge of earth and water; the second, astronomy, supplies its full understanding of that which is of fiery and airy nature; the third is an adequate explanation of the properties of all the four elements—that is to say, of the whole cosmos—and an introduction into the art of their transformations; and finally, the fourth shows the physician those virtues which must stay with him up until his death, and it should support and complete the three other pillars.
- Paracelsus
Paracelsus: Selected Writings
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From whichever side I start, I think I am in an old place where others have been before me.
- Dejan Stojanovic
The Sun Watches the Sun
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Where are we headed? Are we not endlessly plunging —backwards, sideways, forwards, in all directions? Is there an up and a down anymore? Do we not wander as if through an endless nothingness? Do we not feel the breath of empty space? Hasn’t it grown colder?
- Friedrich Nietzsche
The Gay Science: With a Prelude in Rhymes and an Appendix of Songs
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My reason for preferring the darkness is that in the dark you have to describe yourself. In the daylight other people describe you.
- Fynn
Mister God, This is Anna
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Qualsiasi uomo notevole, chiunque cioè non appartenga a quei 5/6 dell'umanità dotati tanto miseramente dalla natura, rimarrà dopo i quarant'anni difficilmente esente da una certa traccia di misantropia.
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The three most important words in a relationship are not, 'I love you,' but, 'Tell me more.
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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
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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!
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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
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He will essentially follow the language of the spectacle, for it is the only one he is familiar with.
- Guy Debord
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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
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The best physician is also a philosopher.
- Claudius Galenus
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where the telescope ends the microscope begins, and who can say which has the wider vision?
- Victor Hugo
Les Misérables
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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
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But this wealth of information produced little or no insight.
- Stephen King
The Gunslinger
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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.
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You can believe in whatsoever you like, but the truth remains the truth, no matter how sweet the lie may taste.
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Ignorance isn't a sword. It's a weight that drags a soul swirling to the bottom of the sea.
- Melodie Ramone
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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
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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
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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.
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Try for once to justify the meaning of your existence as it were a posteriori by setting yourself an aim, a goal... an exalted and noble 'to this end.' Perish in pursuit of this and only this
- Friedrich Nietzsche
Untimely Meditations
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The price we have paid for expecting to be so much more than our ancestors is a perpetual anxiety that we are far from being all we might be.
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A modern philosopher who has never once suspected himself of being a charlatan must be such a shallow mind that his work is probably not worth reading.
- Leszek Kolakowski
Metaphysical Horror
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Medicine rests upon four pillars—philosophy, astronomy, alchemy, and ethics. The first pillar is the philosophical knowledge of earth and water; the second, astronomy, supplies its full understanding of that which is of fiery and airy nature; the third is an adequate explanation of the properties of all the four elements—that is to say, of the whole cosmos—and an introduction into the art of their transformations; and finally, the fourth shows the physician those virtues which must stay with him up until his death, and it should support and complete the three other pillars.
- Paracelsus
Paracelsus: Selected Writings
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From whichever side I start, I think I am in an old place where others have been before me.
- Dejan Stojanovic
The Sun Watches the Sun
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Where are we headed? Are we not endlessly plunging —backwards, sideways, forwards, in all directions? Is there an up and a down anymore? Do we not wander as if through an endless nothingness? Do we not feel the breath of empty space? Hasn’t it grown colder?
- Friedrich Nietzsche
The Gay Science: With a Prelude in Rhymes and an Appendix of Songs
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My reason for preferring the darkness is that in the dark you have to describe yourself. In the daylight other people describe you.
- Fynn
Mister God, This is Anna
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Qualsiasi uomo notevole, chiunque cioè non appartenga a quei 5/6 dell'umanità dotati tanto miseramente dalla natura, rimarrà dopo i quarant'anni difficilmente esente da una certa traccia di misantropia.
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The three most important words in a relationship are not, 'I love you,' but, 'Tell me more.
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
the Real-World was a sprawling mess of a book in need of a good editor.
- Jasper Fforde
One of Our Thursdays Is Missing
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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!
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
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
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
He will essentially follow the language of the spectacle, for it is the only one he is familiar with.
- Guy Debord
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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
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The best physician is also a philosopher.
- Claudius Galenus
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where the telescope ends the microscope begins, and who can say which has the wider vision?
- Victor Hugo
Les Misérables
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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
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But this wealth of information produced little or no insight.
- Stephen King
The Gunslinger
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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.
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You can believe in whatsoever you like, but the truth remains the truth, no matter how sweet the lie may taste.
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Ignorance isn't a sword. It's a weight that drags a soul swirling to the bottom of the sea.
- Melodie Ramone
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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
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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
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
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.
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Try for once to justify the meaning of your existence as it were a posteriori by setting yourself an aim, a goal... an exalted and noble 'to this end.' Perish in pursuit of this and only this
- Friedrich Nietzsche
Untimely Meditations
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
The price we have paid for expecting to be so much more than our ancestors is a perpetual anxiety that we are far from being all we might be.
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
A modern philosopher who has never once suspected himself of being a charlatan must be such a shallow mind that his work is probably not worth reading.
- Leszek Kolakowski
Metaphysical Horror
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Medicine rests upon four pillars—philosophy, astronomy, alchemy, and ethics. The first pillar is the philosophical knowledge of earth and water; the second, astronomy, supplies its full understanding of that which is of fiery and airy nature; the third is an adequate explanation of the properties of all the four elements—that is to say, of the whole cosmos—and an introduction into the art of their transformations; and finally, the fourth shows the physician those virtues which must stay with him up until his death, and it should support and complete the three other pillars.
- Paracelsus
Paracelsus: Selected Writings
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From whichever side I start, I think I am in an old place where others have been before me.
- Dejan Stojanovic
The Sun Watches the Sun
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Where are we headed? Are we not endlessly plunging —backwards, sideways, forwards, in all directions? Is there an up and a down anymore? Do we not wander as if through an endless nothingness? Do we not feel the breath of empty space? Hasn’t it grown colder?
- Friedrich Nietzsche
The Gay Science: With a Prelude in Rhymes and an Appendix of Songs
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
My reason for preferring the darkness is that in the dark you have to describe yourself. In the daylight other people describe you.
- Fynn
Mister God, This is Anna
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Qualsiasi uomo notevole, chiunque cioè non appartenga a quei 5/6 dell'umanità dotati tanto miseramente dalla natura, rimarrà dopo i quarant'anni difficilmente esente da una certa traccia di misantropia.
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
The three most important words in a relationship are not, 'I love you,' but, 'Tell me more.
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
the Real-World was a sprawling mess of a book in need of a good editor.
- Jasper Fforde
One of Our Thursdays Is Missing
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
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!
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
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
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
He will essentially follow the language of the spectacle, for it is the only one he is familiar with.
- Guy Debord
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
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
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
The best physician is also a philosopher.
- Claudius Galenus
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
where the telescope ends the microscope begins, and who can say which has the wider vision?
- Victor Hugo
Les Misérables
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
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
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But this wealth of information produced little or no insight.
- Stephen King
The Gunslinger
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
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.
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
You can believe in whatsoever you like, but the truth remains the truth, no matter how sweet the lie may taste.
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Ignorance isn't a sword. It's a weight that drags a soul swirling to the bottom of the sea.
- Melodie Ramone
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
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
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
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
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
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.
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
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