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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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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
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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
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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
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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
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The world was floods above and fire below
- Gregory Maguire
Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West
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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
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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
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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
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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
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If the emotions are free the intellect will look after itself
- A.S. Neill
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We need to walk to know sacred places, those around us and those within. We need to walk to remember the songs.
- Joseph Bruchac
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The spread of evil is the symptom of a vacuum. Whenever evil wins, it is only by default: by the moral failure of those who evade the fact that there can be no compromise on basic principles.
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They will say that I, having no literary skill, cannot properly express that which I desire to treat of, but they do not know that my subjects are to be dealt with by experience rather than by words. And [experience] has been the mistress of those who wrote well. And so, as mistress, I will cite her in all cases. Though I may not, like them, be able to quote other authors, I shall rely on that which is much greater and more worthy: on experience, the mistress of their masters.
- Leonardo Da Vinci Reproductions
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It is not enough to show how clever we are by showing how obscure everything is".
- J.L. Austin
Ordinary Language
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Zu den Sachen selbst!
- Edmund Husserl
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Those who meet Jesus always experience either joy or its opposites, either foretastes of Heaven or foretastes of Hell. Not everyone who meets Jesus is pleased, and not everyone is happy, but everyone is shocked.
- Peter Kreeft
Jesus-Shock
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If we are merely matter intricately assembled, is this really demeaning? If there's nothing here but atoms, does that make us less or does that make matter more?
- Carl Sagan
The Varieties of Scientific Experience: A Personal View of the Search for God
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A constitution that is made for all nations is made for none.
- Joseph de Maistre
Considerations on France
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Concerning Concealment as a symptom of love for Krsna:

"It has been stated, 'although Srimati Radharani developed a deep loving affection for Krsna, She hid Her attitude in the core of Her heart so that others could not detect Her actual condition.
- A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
The Nectar of Devotion: The Complete Science of Bhakti-Yoga
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What is familiar is what we are used to; and what we are used to is most difficult to 'Know' - that is, to see as a problem; that is, to see as strange, as distant, as 'outside us'.
- Friedrich Nietzsche
The Gay Science: With a Prelude in Rhymes and an Appendix of Songs
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The romantic movement, in art, in literature, and in politics, is bond up with this subjective way of judging men, not as members of a community, but as aesthetically delightful objects of contemplation. Tigers are more beautiful than sheep, but we prefer them behind bars. The typical romantic removes the bars and enjoys the magnificent leaps with which the tiger annihilates the sheep. He exhorts men to imagine themselves tigers, and when he succeeds the results are not wholly pleasant.
- Bertrand Russell
A History of Western Philosophy
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Don’t think about the possibilities of failing. Never forget to think about the possibilities of flying.
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Stress is nothing but the fear of change.
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But spontaneity is not by any means a blind, disorderly urge, a mere power of caprice. A philosophy restricted to the alternatives of conventional language has no way of conceiving an intelligence which does not work according to plan, according to a one-at-a-time order of thought. Yet the concrete evidence of such an intelligence is right to hand in our own thoughtlessly ordered bodies. For the Tao does not 'know' how it produces the universe just as we do not 'know' how we construct our brains.
- Alan Wilson Watts
The Way of Zen
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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
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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
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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
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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
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The world was floods above and fire below
- Gregory Maguire
Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West
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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
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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
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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
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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
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If the emotions are free the intellect will look after itself
- A.S. Neill
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We need to walk to know sacred places, those around us and those within. We need to walk to remember the songs.
- Joseph Bruchac
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The spread of evil is the symptom of a vacuum. Whenever evil wins, it is only by default: by the moral failure of those who evade the fact that there can be no compromise on basic principles.
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
They will say that I, having no literary skill, cannot properly express that which I desire to treat of, but they do not know that my subjects are to be dealt with by experience rather than by words. And [experience] has been the mistress of those who wrote well. And so, as mistress, I will cite her in all cases. Though I may not, like them, be able to quote other authors, I shall rely on that which is much greater and more worthy: on experience, the mistress of their masters.
- Leonardo Da Vinci Reproductions
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It is not enough to show how clever we are by showing how obscure everything is".
- J.L. Austin
Ordinary Language
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Zu den Sachen selbst!
- Edmund Husserl
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Those who meet Jesus always experience either joy or its opposites, either foretastes of Heaven or foretastes of Hell. Not everyone who meets Jesus is pleased, and not everyone is happy, but everyone is shocked.
- Peter Kreeft
Jesus-Shock
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
If we are merely matter intricately assembled, is this really demeaning? If there's nothing here but atoms, does that make us less or does that make matter more?
- Carl Sagan
The Varieties of Scientific Experience: A Personal View of the Search for God
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A constitution that is made for all nations is made for none.
- Joseph de Maistre
Considerations on France
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Concerning Concealment as a symptom of love for Krsna:

"It has been stated, 'although Srimati Radharani developed a deep loving affection for Krsna, She hid Her attitude in the core of Her heart so that others could not detect Her actual condition.
- A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
The Nectar of Devotion: The Complete Science of Bhakti-Yoga
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
What is familiar is what we are used to; and what we are used to is most difficult to 'Know' - that is, to see as a problem; that is, to see as strange, as distant, as 'outside us'.
- Friedrich Nietzsche
The Gay Science: With a Prelude in Rhymes and an Appendix of Songs
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
The romantic movement, in art, in literature, and in politics, is bond up with this subjective way of judging men, not as members of a community, but as aesthetically delightful objects of contemplation. Tigers are more beautiful than sheep, but we prefer them behind bars. The typical romantic removes the bars and enjoys the magnificent leaps with which the tiger annihilates the sheep. He exhorts men to imagine themselves tigers, and when he succeeds the results are not wholly pleasant.
- Bertrand Russell
A History of Western Philosophy
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Don’t think about the possibilities of failing. Never forget to think about the possibilities of flying.
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Stress is nothing but the fear of change.
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But spontaneity is not by any means a blind, disorderly urge, a mere power of caprice. A philosophy restricted to the alternatives of conventional language has no way of conceiving an intelligence which does not work according to plan, according to a one-at-a-time order of thought. Yet the concrete evidence of such an intelligence is right to hand in our own thoughtlessly ordered bodies. For the Tao does not 'know' how it produces the universe just as we do not 'know' how we construct our brains.
- Alan Wilson Watts
The Way of Zen
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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
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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
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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
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
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
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The world was floods above and fire below
- Gregory Maguire
Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
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
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
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
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
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
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
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
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
If the emotions are free the intellect will look after itself
- A.S. Neill
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
We need to walk to know sacred places, those around us and those within. We need to walk to remember the songs.
- Joseph Bruchac
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
The spread of evil is the symptom of a vacuum. Whenever evil wins, it is only by default: by the moral failure of those who evade the fact that there can be no compromise on basic principles.
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
They will say that I, having no literary skill, cannot properly express that which I desire to treat of, but they do not know that my subjects are to be dealt with by experience rather than by words. And [experience] has been the mistress of those who wrote well. And so, as mistress, I will cite her in all cases. Though I may not, like them, be able to quote other authors, I shall rely on that which is much greater and more worthy: on experience, the mistress of their masters.
- Leonardo Da Vinci Reproductions
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
It is not enough to show how clever we are by showing how obscure everything is".
- J.L. Austin
Ordinary Language
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Zu den Sachen selbst!
- Edmund Husserl
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Those who meet Jesus always experience either joy or its opposites, either foretastes of Heaven or foretastes of Hell. Not everyone who meets Jesus is pleased, and not everyone is happy, but everyone is shocked.
- Peter Kreeft
Jesus-Shock
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
If we are merely matter intricately assembled, is this really demeaning? If there's nothing here but atoms, does that make us less or does that make matter more?
- Carl Sagan
The Varieties of Scientific Experience: A Personal View of the Search for God
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
A constitution that is made for all nations is made for none.
- Joseph de Maistre
Considerations on France
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Concerning Concealment as a symptom of love for Krsna:

"It has been stated, 'although Srimati Radharani developed a deep loving affection for Krsna, She hid Her attitude in the core of Her heart so that others could not detect Her actual condition.
- A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
The Nectar of Devotion: The Complete Science of Bhakti-Yoga
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
What is familiar is what we are used to; and what we are used to is most difficult to 'Know' - that is, to see as a problem; that is, to see as strange, as distant, as 'outside us'.
- Friedrich Nietzsche
The Gay Science: With a Prelude in Rhymes and an Appendix of Songs
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
The romantic movement, in art, in literature, and in politics, is bond up with this subjective way of judging men, not as members of a community, but as aesthetically delightful objects of contemplation. Tigers are more beautiful than sheep, but we prefer them behind bars. The typical romantic removes the bars and enjoys the magnificent leaps with which the tiger annihilates the sheep. He exhorts men to imagine themselves tigers, and when he succeeds the results are not wholly pleasant.
- Bertrand Russell
A History of Western Philosophy
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Don’t think about the possibilities of failing. Never forget to think about the possibilities of flying.
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Stress is nothing but the fear of change.
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
But spontaneity is not by any means a blind, disorderly urge, a mere power of caprice. A philosophy restricted to the alternatives of conventional language has no way of conceiving an intelligence which does not work according to plan, according to a one-at-a-time order of thought. Yet the concrete evidence of such an intelligence is right to hand in our own thoughtlessly ordered bodies. For the Tao does not 'know' how it produces the universe just as we do not 'know' how we construct our brains.
- Alan Wilson Watts
The Way of Zen
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