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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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"It is culture that is the bully."

Orn Ald yos'Senchul to Theo Waitley, Saltation
- Sharon Lee and Steve Miller
Topic: Philosophical
NOT YET RATED ▼
We need to walk to know sacred places, those around us and those within. We need to walk to remember the songs.
- Joseph Bruchac
Topic: Philosophical
NOT YET RATED ▼
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.
Topic: Philosophical
NOT YET RATED ▼
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
Topic: Philosophical
NOT YET RATED ▼
It is not enough to show how clever we are by showing how obscure everything is".
- J.L. Austin
Ordinary Language
Topic: Philosophical
NOT YET RATED ▼
Zu den Sachen selbst!
- Edmund Husserl
Topic: Philosophical
NOT YET RATED ▼
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
Topic: Philosophical
NOT YET RATED ▼
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
Topic: Philosophical, Religion
NOT YET RATED ▼
A constitution that is made for all nations is made for none.
- Joseph de Maistre
Considerations on France
Topic: Philosophical
NOT YET RATED ▼
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
Topic: Philosophical, Religion
NOT YET RATED ▼
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
Topic: Philosophical
NOT YET RATED ▼
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
Topic: Philosophical
NOT YET RATED ▼
Don’t think about the possibilities of failing. Never forget to think about the possibilities of flying.
Topic: Philosophical
NOT YET RATED ▼
Stress is nothing but the fear of change.
Topic: Philosophical
NOT YET RATED ▼
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
Topic: Philosophical
NOT YET RATED ▼
Never let yourself be diverted, either by what you wish to believe, or what you think could have beneficent social effects if it were believed; but look only and solely at what are the facts.
Topic: Philosophical
NOT YET RATED ▼
It's not about whether or not someone is a bigot, but whether or not the argument which that someone is arguing is worth being a bigot about.
- Criss Jami
Killosophy
Topic: Philosophical, Religion
NOT YET RATED ▼
What's the survival value of obsessing on a sunset?
- Peter Watts
Blindsight
Topic: Philosophical
NOT YET RATED ▼
Waves of hands, hesitations at street corners, someone dropping a cigarette into the gutter-all are stories. But which is the true story? That I do not know. Hence I keep my phrases hung like clothes in a cupboard, waiting for some one to wear them. Thus waiting, thus speculating, making this note and then an· other I do not cling to life. I shall be brushed like a bee from a sunflower. My philosophy, always accumulating, welling up moment by moment, runs like quicksilver a dozen ways at once.
- Virginia Woolf
The Waves
Topic: Philosophical
NOT YET RATED ▼
But understanding will always require some effort. You probably wouldn't admire a friend who was good at everything if it cost her no effort.
- Jostein Gaarder
Sophie’s World
Topic: Philosophical
NOT YET RATED ▼
I should attempt to treat human vice and folly geometrically... the passions of hatred, anger, envy, and so on, considered in themselves, follow from the necessity and efficacy of nature... I shall, therefore, treat the nature and strength of the emotion in exactly the same manner, as though I were concerned with lines, planes, and solids.
Topic: Philosophical
NOT YET RATED ▼
Ben, if you get pee in my brand-new car, I am going to cut your balls off."
Still peeing, Ben looks over at me smirking. "You´re gonna need a hell of a big knife, bro.
- John Green
Paper Towns
Topic: Philosophical
NOT YET RATED ▼
'An apple a day keeps the doctor away.' But eating too many, is quite enough-plenty. And you'll have to go see the good doc anyway.
- Solange nicole
Topic: Philosophical
NOT YET RATED ▼
Action is the activity of the rational soul, which abhors irrationality and must combat it or be corrupted by it. When it sees the irrationality of others, it must seek to correct it, and can do this either by teaching or engaging in public affairs itself, correcting through its practice. And the purpose of action is to enable philosophy to continue, for if men are reduced to the material alone, they become no more than beasts.
- Iain Pears
The Dream of Scipio
Topic: Philosophical
NOT YET RATED ▼
"It is culture that is the bully."

Orn Ald yos'Senchul to Theo Waitley, Saltation
- Sharon Lee and Steve Miller
Topic: Philosophical
NOT YET RATED ▼
We need to walk to know sacred places, those around us and those within. We need to walk to remember the songs.
- Joseph Bruchac
Topic: Philosophical
NOT YET RATED ▼
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.
Topic: Philosophical
NOT YET RATED ▼
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
Topic: Philosophical
NOT YET RATED ▼
It is not enough to show how clever we are by showing how obscure everything is".
- J.L. Austin
Ordinary Language
Topic: Philosophical
NOT YET RATED ▼
Zu den Sachen selbst!
- Edmund Husserl
Topic: Philosophical
NOT YET RATED ▼
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
Topic: Philosophical
NOT YET RATED ▼
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
Topic: Philosophical, Religion
NOT YET RATED ▼
A constitution that is made for all nations is made for none.
- Joseph de Maistre
Considerations on France
Topic: Philosophical
NOT YET RATED ▼
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
Topic: Philosophical, Religion
NOT YET RATED ▼
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
Topic: Philosophical
NOT YET RATED ▼
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
Topic: Philosophical
NOT YET RATED ▼
Don’t think about the possibilities of failing. Never forget to think about the possibilities of flying.
Topic: Philosophical
NOT YET RATED ▼
Stress is nothing but the fear of change.
Topic: Philosophical
NOT YET RATED ▼
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
Topic: Philosophical
NOT YET RATED ▼
Never let yourself be diverted, either by what you wish to believe, or what you think could have beneficent social effects if it were believed; but look only and solely at what are the facts.
Topic: Philosophical
NOT YET RATED ▼
It's not about whether or not someone is a bigot, but whether or not the argument which that someone is arguing is worth being a bigot about.
- Criss Jami
Killosophy
Topic: Philosophical, Religion
NOT YET RATED ▼
What's the survival value of obsessing on a sunset?
- Peter Watts
Blindsight
Topic: Philosophical
NOT YET RATED ▼
Waves of hands, hesitations at street corners, someone dropping a cigarette into the gutter-all are stories. But which is the true story? That I do not know. Hence I keep my phrases hung like clothes in a cupboard, waiting for some one to wear them. Thus waiting, thus speculating, making this note and then an· other I do not cling to life. I shall be brushed like a bee from a sunflower. My philosophy, always accumulating, welling up moment by moment, runs like quicksilver a dozen ways at once.
- Virginia Woolf
The Waves
Topic: Philosophical
NOT YET RATED ▼
But understanding will always require some effort. You probably wouldn't admire a friend who was good at everything if it cost her no effort.
- Jostein Gaarder
Sophie’s World
Topic: Philosophical
NOT YET RATED ▼
I should attempt to treat human vice and folly geometrically... the passions of hatred, anger, envy, and so on, considered in themselves, follow from the necessity and efficacy of nature... I shall, therefore, treat the nature and strength of the emotion in exactly the same manner, as though I were concerned with lines, planes, and solids.
Topic: Philosophical
NOT YET RATED ▼
Ben, if you get pee in my brand-new car, I am going to cut your balls off."
Still peeing, Ben looks over at me smirking. "You´re gonna need a hell of a big knife, bro.
- John Green
Paper Towns
Topic: Philosophical
NOT YET RATED ▼
'An apple a day keeps the doctor away.' But eating too many, is quite enough-plenty. And you'll have to go see the good doc anyway.
- Solange nicole
Topic: Philosophical
NOT YET RATED ▼
Action is the activity of the rational soul, which abhors irrationality and must combat it or be corrupted by it. When it sees the irrationality of others, it must seek to correct it, and can do this either by teaching or engaging in public affairs itself, correcting through its practice. And the purpose of action is to enable philosophy to continue, for if men are reduced to the material alone, they become no more than beasts.
- Iain Pears
The Dream of Scipio
Topic: Philosophical
NOT YET RATED ▼
"It is culture that is the bully."

Orn Ald yos'Senchul to Theo Waitley, Saltation
- Sharon Lee and Steve Miller
Topic: Philosophical
NOT YET RATED ▼
We need to walk to know sacred places, those around us and those within. We need to walk to remember the songs.
- Joseph Bruchac
Topic: Philosophical
NOT YET RATED ▼
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.
Topic: Philosophical
NOT YET RATED ▼
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
Topic: Philosophical
NOT YET RATED ▼
It is not enough to show how clever we are by showing how obscure everything is".
- J.L. Austin
Ordinary Language
Topic: Philosophical
NOT YET RATED ▼
Zu den Sachen selbst!
- Edmund Husserl
Topic: Philosophical
NOT YET RATED ▼
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
Topic: Philosophical
NOT YET RATED ▼
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
Topic: Philosophical, Religion
NOT YET RATED ▼
A constitution that is made for all nations is made for none.
- Joseph de Maistre
Considerations on France
Topic: Philosophical
NOT YET RATED ▼
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
Topic: Philosophical, Religion
NOT YET RATED ▼
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
Topic: Philosophical
NOT YET RATED ▼
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
Topic: Philosophical
NOT YET RATED ▼
Don’t think about the possibilities of failing. Never forget to think about the possibilities of flying.
Topic: Philosophical
NOT YET RATED ▼
Stress is nothing but the fear of change.
Topic: Philosophical
NOT YET RATED ▼
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
Topic: Philosophical
NOT YET RATED ▼
Never let yourself be diverted, either by what you wish to believe, or what you think could have beneficent social effects if it were believed; but look only and solely at what are the facts.
Topic: Philosophical
NOT YET RATED ▼
It's not about whether or not someone is a bigot, but whether or not the argument which that someone is arguing is worth being a bigot about.
- Criss Jami
Killosophy
Topic: Philosophical, Religion
NOT YET RATED ▼
What's the survival value of obsessing on a sunset?
- Peter Watts
Blindsight
Topic: Philosophical
NOT YET RATED ▼
Waves of hands, hesitations at street corners, someone dropping a cigarette into the gutter-all are stories. But which is the true story? That I do not know. Hence I keep my phrases hung like clothes in a cupboard, waiting for some one to wear them. Thus waiting, thus speculating, making this note and then an· other I do not cling to life. I shall be brushed like a bee from a sunflower. My philosophy, always accumulating, welling up moment by moment, runs like quicksilver a dozen ways at once.
- Virginia Woolf
The Waves
Topic: Philosophical
NOT YET RATED ▼
But understanding will always require some effort. You probably wouldn't admire a friend who was good at everything if it cost her no effort.
- Jostein Gaarder
Sophie’s World
Topic: Philosophical
NOT YET RATED ▼
I should attempt to treat human vice and folly geometrically... the passions of hatred, anger, envy, and so on, considered in themselves, follow from the necessity and efficacy of nature... I shall, therefore, treat the nature and strength of the emotion in exactly the same manner, as though I were concerned with lines, planes, and solids.
Topic: Philosophical
NOT YET RATED ▼
Ben, if you get pee in my brand-new car, I am going to cut your balls off."
Still peeing, Ben looks over at me smirking. "You´re gonna need a hell of a big knife, bro.
- John Green
Paper Towns
Topic: Philosophical
NOT YET RATED ▼
'An apple a day keeps the doctor away.' But eating too many, is quite enough-plenty. And you'll have to go see the good doc anyway.
- Solange nicole
Topic: Philosophical
NOT YET RATED ▼
Action is the activity of the rational soul, which abhors irrationality and must combat it or be corrupted by it. When it sees the irrationality of others, it must seek to correct it, and can do this either by teaching or engaging in public affairs itself, correcting through its practice. And the purpose of action is to enable philosophy to continue, for if men are reduced to the material alone, they become no more than beasts.
- Iain Pears
The Dream of Scipio
Topic: Philosophical
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