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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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If an apology is followed by an excuse or a reason, it means they are going to commit same mistake again they just apologized for.
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No matter how you care to define it, I do not identify with the local group. Planet, species, race, nation, state, religion, party, union, club, association, neighborhood improvement committee; I have no interest in any of it. I love and treasure individuals as I meet them, I loathe and despise the groups they identify with and belong to.
- George Carlin
Brain Droppings
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Out of love for mankind, and out of despair at my embarrassing situation, seeing that I had accomplished nothing and was unable to make anything easier than it had already been made, and moved by a genuine interest in those who make everything easy, I conceived it as my task to create difficulties everywhere.
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A human being is a part of the whole called by us universe, a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and feeling as something separated from the rest, a kind of optical delusion of his consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest to us. Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty.
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You do not write your life with words...You write it with actions. What you think is not important. It is only important what you do.
- Patrick Ness
A Monster Calls
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Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric.
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You're not to be so blind with patriotism that you can't face reality. Wrong is wrong, no matter who does it or says it.
- Malcolm X
By Any Means Necessary
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Science is not only compatible with spirituality; it is a profound source of spirituality.
- Carl Sagan
The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark
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A paranoid is someone who knows a little of what's going on.
- William S. Burroughs
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Do not train a child to learn by force or harshness; but direct them to it by what amuses their minds, so that you may be better able to discover with accuracy the peculiar bent of the genius of each.
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The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing.
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Sometimes I lie awake at night and I ask, "Is life a multiple choice test or is it a true or false test?" ...Then a voice comes to me out of the dark and says, "We hate to tell you this but life is a thousand word essay.
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Today a young man on acid realized that all matter is merely energy condensed to a slow vibration, that we are all one consciousness experiencing itself subjectively, there is no such thing as death, life is only a dream, and we are the imagination of ourselves. Heres Tom with the Weather.
- Bill Hicks
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The first method for estimating the intelligence of a ruler is to look at the men he has around him.
- Niccolò Machiavelli
The Prince
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I don't deserve a soul, yet I still have one. I know because it hurts.
- Douglas Coupland
The Gum Thief
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Hard times create strong men. Strong men create good times. Good times create weak men. And, weak men create hard times.
- G. Michael Hopf
Those Who Remain
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Contentment is natural wealth, luxury is artificial poverty.
- Socrates
Essential Thinkers - Socrates
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Governments, if they endure, always tend increasingly toward aristocratic forms. No government in history has been known to evade this pattern. And as the aristocracy develops, government tends more and more to act exclusively in the interests of the ruling class - whether that class be hereditary royalty, oligarchs of financial empires, or entrenched bureaucracy.
- Politics as Repeat Phenomenon: Bene Gesserit Training Manual
- Frank Herbert
Children of Dune
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No man was ever wise by chance
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I do not know how to teach philosophy without becoming a disturber of the peace.
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Only that day dawns to which we are awake. There is more day to dawn. The sun is but a morning star.
- Henry David Thoreau
Walden: Or, Life in the Woods
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I suppose therefore that all things I see are illusions; I believe that nothing has ever existed of everything my lying memory tells me. I think I have no senses. I believe that body, shape, extension, motion, location are functions. What is there then that can be taken as true? Perhaps only this one thing, that nothing at all is certain.
- Rene Descartes
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Learned we may be with another man's learning: we can only be wise with wisdom of our own.
- Michel de Montaigne
The Complete Essays
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Criticism of others is thus an oblique form of self-commendation. We think we make the picture hang straight on our wall by telling our neighbors that all his pictures are crooked.
- Fulton J. Sheen
Seven Words of Jesus and Mary: Lessons from Cana and Calvary
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If an apology is followed by an excuse or a reason, it means they are going to commit same mistake again they just apologized for.
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No matter how you care to define it, I do not identify with the local group. Planet, species, race, nation, state, religion, party, union, club, association, neighborhood improvement committee; I have no interest in any of it. I love and treasure individuals as I meet them, I loathe and despise the groups they identify with and belong to.
- George Carlin
Brain Droppings
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Out of love for mankind, and out of despair at my embarrassing situation, seeing that I had accomplished nothing and was unable to make anything easier than it had already been made, and moved by a genuine interest in those who make everything easy, I conceived it as my task to create difficulties everywhere.
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A human being is a part of the whole called by us universe, a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and feeling as something separated from the rest, a kind of optical delusion of his consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest to us. Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty.
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You do not write your life with words...You write it with actions. What you think is not important. It is only important what you do.
- Patrick Ness
A Monster Calls
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Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric.
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You're not to be so blind with patriotism that you can't face reality. Wrong is wrong, no matter who does it or says it.
- Malcolm X
By Any Means Necessary
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Science is not only compatible with spirituality; it is a profound source of spirituality.
- Carl Sagan
The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark
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A paranoid is someone who knows a little of what's going on.
- William S. Burroughs
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Do not train a child to learn by force or harshness; but direct them to it by what amuses their minds, so that you may be better able to discover with accuracy the peculiar bent of the genius of each.
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The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing.
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Sometimes I lie awake at night and I ask, "Is life a multiple choice test or is it a true or false test?" ...Then a voice comes to me out of the dark and says, "We hate to tell you this but life is a thousand word essay.
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Today a young man on acid realized that all matter is merely energy condensed to a slow vibration, that we are all one consciousness experiencing itself subjectively, there is no such thing as death, life is only a dream, and we are the imagination of ourselves. Heres Tom with the Weather.
- Bill Hicks
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The first method for estimating the intelligence of a ruler is to look at the men he has around him.
- Niccolò Machiavelli
The Prince
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I don't deserve a soul, yet I still have one. I know because it hurts.
- Douglas Coupland
The Gum Thief
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Hard times create strong men. Strong men create good times. Good times create weak men. And, weak men create hard times.
- G. Michael Hopf
Those Who Remain
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Contentment is natural wealth, luxury is artificial poverty.
- Socrates
Essential Thinkers - Socrates
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Governments, if they endure, always tend increasingly toward aristocratic forms. No government in history has been known to evade this pattern. And as the aristocracy develops, government tends more and more to act exclusively in the interests of the ruling class - whether that class be hereditary royalty, oligarchs of financial empires, or entrenched bureaucracy.
- Politics as Repeat Phenomenon: Bene Gesserit Training Manual
- Frank Herbert
Children of Dune
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No man was ever wise by chance
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I do not know how to teach philosophy without becoming a disturber of the peace.
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Only that day dawns to which we are awake. There is more day to dawn. The sun is but a morning star.
- Henry David Thoreau
Walden: Or, Life in the Woods
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I suppose therefore that all things I see are illusions; I believe that nothing has ever existed of everything my lying memory tells me. I think I have no senses. I believe that body, shape, extension, motion, location are functions. What is there then that can be taken as true? Perhaps only this one thing, that nothing at all is certain.
- Rene Descartes
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Learned we may be with another man's learning: we can only be wise with wisdom of our own.
- Michel de Montaigne
The Complete Essays
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Criticism of others is thus an oblique form of self-commendation. We think we make the picture hang straight on our wall by telling our neighbors that all his pictures are crooked.
- Fulton J. Sheen
Seven Words of Jesus and Mary: Lessons from Cana and Calvary
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If an apology is followed by an excuse or a reason, it means they are going to commit same mistake again they just apologized for.
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No matter how you care to define it, I do not identify with the local group. Planet, species, race, nation, state, religion, party, union, club, association, neighborhood improvement committee; I have no interest in any of it. I love and treasure individuals as I meet them, I loathe and despise the groups they identify with and belong to.
- George Carlin
Brain Droppings
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Out of love for mankind, and out of despair at my embarrassing situation, seeing that I had accomplished nothing and was unable to make anything easier than it had already been made, and moved by a genuine interest in those who make everything easy, I conceived it as my task to create difficulties everywhere.
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
A human being is a part of the whole called by us universe, a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and feeling as something separated from the rest, a kind of optical delusion of his consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest to us. Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty.
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
You do not write your life with words...You write it with actions. What you think is not important. It is only important what you do.
- Patrick Ness
A Monster Calls
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric.
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
You're not to be so blind with patriotism that you can't face reality. Wrong is wrong, no matter who does it or says it.
- Malcolm X
By Any Means Necessary
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Science is not only compatible with spirituality; it is a profound source of spirituality.
- Carl Sagan
The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
A paranoid is someone who knows a little of what's going on.
- William S. Burroughs
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Do not train a child to learn by force or harshness; but direct them to it by what amuses their minds, so that you may be better able to discover with accuracy the peculiar bent of the genius of each.
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing.
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Sometimes I lie awake at night and I ask, "Is life a multiple choice test or is it a true or false test?" ...Then a voice comes to me out of the dark and says, "We hate to tell you this but life is a thousand word essay.
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Today a young man on acid realized that all matter is merely energy condensed to a slow vibration, that we are all one consciousness experiencing itself subjectively, there is no such thing as death, life is only a dream, and we are the imagination of ourselves. Heres Tom with the Weather.
- Bill Hicks
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
The first method for estimating the intelligence of a ruler is to look at the men he has around him.
- Niccolò Machiavelli
The Prince
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
I don't deserve a soul, yet I still have one. I know because it hurts.
- Douglas Coupland
The Gum Thief
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Hard times create strong men. Strong men create good times. Good times create weak men. And, weak men create hard times.
- G. Michael Hopf
Those Who Remain
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Contentment is natural wealth, luxury is artificial poverty.
- Socrates
Essential Thinkers - Socrates
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Governments, if they endure, always tend increasingly toward aristocratic forms. No government in history has been known to evade this pattern. And as the aristocracy develops, government tends more and more to act exclusively in the interests of the ruling class - whether that class be hereditary royalty, oligarchs of financial empires, or entrenched bureaucracy.
- Politics as Repeat Phenomenon: Bene Gesserit Training Manual
- Frank Herbert
Children of Dune
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
No man was ever wise by chance
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
I do not know how to teach philosophy without becoming a disturber of the peace.
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Only that day dawns to which we are awake. There is more day to dawn. The sun is but a morning star.
- Henry David Thoreau
Walden: Or, Life in the Woods
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
I suppose therefore that all things I see are illusions; I believe that nothing has ever existed of everything my lying memory tells me. I think I have no senses. I believe that body, shape, extension, motion, location are functions. What is there then that can be taken as true? Perhaps only this one thing, that nothing at all is certain.
- Rene Descartes
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Learned we may be with another man's learning: we can only be wise with wisdom of our own.
- Michel de Montaigne
The Complete Essays
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Criticism of others is thus an oblique form of self-commendation. We think we make the picture hang straight on our wall by telling our neighbors that all his pictures are crooked.
- Fulton J. Sheen
Seven Words of Jesus and Mary: Lessons from Cana and Calvary
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