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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 chief danger to our philosophy, apart from laziness and woolliness, is scholasticism, the essence of which is treating what is vague as if it were precise and trying to fit it into an exact logical category.
- Frank P Ramsey
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When we move, we are in a way de-structured by our movement toward something: we are both here and at the same time not here because we're already in the process of going elsewhere, if you see what I mean. To stop de-structuring yourself, you have to stop moving altogether. Either you move and you're no longer whole, or you're whole and you can't move.
- Muriel Barbery
The Elegance of the Hedgehog
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But because me and myself, as you no doubt are well aware, we are going to die, my relation—and yours too—to the event of this text, which otherwise never quite makes it, our relation is that of a structurally posthumous necessity.
Suppose, in that case, that I am not alone in my claim to know the idiomatic code (whose notion itself is already contradictory) of this event. What if somewhere, here or there, there are shares in this non-secret’s secret? Even so the scene would not be changed. The accomplices, as you are once again well aware, are also bound to die.
- Jacques Derrida
Spurs: Nietzsche's Styles/Éperons: Les Styles de Nietzsche
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When you can't get what you want, get what you need
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If your dreams are to hard to achieve, just achieve
- Benny Bellamacina
Piddly Poems for Children, v.2
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religion, the most powerful of the elements which have entered into the formation of moral feeling, having almost always been governed either by the ambition of a hierarchy, seeking control over every department of human conduct, or by the spirit of Puritanism.
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The scepticism which men affect towards their higher inspirations is often not an honest doubt, but a guilty negligence, and is a sign of narrow mind and defective wisdom.
- James Martineau
Tides of the Spirit: Selections from the Writings of James Martineau
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What information consumes is rather obvious: it consumes the attention of its recipients. Hence a wealth of information creates a poverty of attention, and a need to allocate that attention efficiently among the overabundance of information sources that might consume it.
- Herbert Simon
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The western mind makes definitions; it draws lines.
- Camille Paglia
Sexual Personae: Art and Decadence from Nefertiti to Emily Dickinson
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How keen everyone is to make this world their home forgetting its impermanence. It's like trying to see and name constellations in a fireworks display.
- Nadeem Aslam
The Wasted Vigil
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Give love, take pride
- Benny Bellamacina
Piddly poems for children vol:3
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Life is an essay you yourself have to write, start to finish.
- Mo
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The summer's flower is to the summer sweet
Though to itself it only live and die
- William Shakespeare
The Complete Sonnets and Poems
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Make a spurious division of one process into two, forget that you have done it, and then puzzle for centuries as to how the two get together.
- Alan Wilson Watts
The Book: On the Taboo Against Knowing Who You Are
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€7,500, first-class, everything—and all that for 40 minutes selling them some old stuff.
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Whether divine or human, it is precisely the imagination that fashions and recognizes the universe as meaningful, abiding, and valuable, that is to say, as real.
- William K. Mahony
The Artful Universe: An Introduction to the Vedic Religious Imagination
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Ohne Hast, aber ohne Rast. - Without haste, but without rest.
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A philosophy professor at my college, whose baby became enamored of the portrait of David Hume on a Penguin paperback, had the cover laminated in plastic so her daughter could cut her teeth on the great thinker.
- Anne Fadiman
Ex Libris: Confessions of a Common Reader
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All these years of thinking, ending up like this: In front of all this beauty, understanding nothing.
- Bruce Cockburn
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For the reporters, the heroes of our time
- Timothy Snyder
The Road to Unfreedom: Russia, Europe, America
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A photograph does not present us with ‘likenesses’ of things; it presents us, we want to say, with the things themselves. But wanting to say that may well make us ontologically restless. ‘Photographs present us with things themselves’ sounds, and ought to sound, paradoxical … It is no less paradoxical or false to hold up a photograph of Garbo and say, ‘That is not Garbo,’ if all you mean is that the object you are holding up is not a human creature. Such troubles in notating so obvious a fact suggest that we do not know what a photograph is; we do not know how to place it ontologically. We might say that we don’t know how to think of the connection between a photograph and what it is a photograph of.
- Stanley Cavell
The World Viewed: Reflections on the Ontology of Film, Enlarged Edition
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A little while ago I was able to wander in a beautiful sublime fantasy world, in Ossian’s half-dark magical world. But the blessed dreams dissolve; they seem like love potions - they intoxicate, exalt and then disappear, that is the misery and wretchedness of all our feelings. With thoughts it is no better: one easily overthinks things to the point of staleness.
- Karoline von Günderrode
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Your time is the most precious thing in this world.
- Cometan
The Omnidoxy
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There is life in walking, but death in running - there is life in communication, but death in talking - there is life in awareness, but death in judgement - so, be the life my friend, without the judgement, without the talking, without the running - simply be the life, full with sparkling communications, revelatory awareness and heart-warming walks.
- Abhijit Naskar
Time to Save Medicine
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The chief danger to our philosophy, apart from laziness and woolliness, is scholasticism, the essence of which is treating what is vague as if it were precise and trying to fit it into an exact logical category.
- Frank P Ramsey
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When we move, we are in a way de-structured by our movement toward something: we are both here and at the same time not here because we're already in the process of going elsewhere, if you see what I mean. To stop de-structuring yourself, you have to stop moving altogether. Either you move and you're no longer whole, or you're whole and you can't move.
- Muriel Barbery
The Elegance of the Hedgehog
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But because me and myself, as you no doubt are well aware, we are going to die, my relation—and yours too—to the event of this text, which otherwise never quite makes it, our relation is that of a structurally posthumous necessity.
Suppose, in that case, that I am not alone in my claim to know the idiomatic code (whose notion itself is already contradictory) of this event. What if somewhere, here or there, there are shares in this non-secret’s secret? Even so the scene would not be changed. The accomplices, as you are once again well aware, are also bound to die.
- Jacques Derrida
Spurs: Nietzsche's Styles/Éperons: Les Styles de Nietzsche
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When you can't get what you want, get what you need
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If your dreams are to hard to achieve, just achieve
- Benny Bellamacina
Piddly Poems for Children, v.2
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religion, the most powerful of the elements which have entered into the formation of moral feeling, having almost always been governed either by the ambition of a hierarchy, seeking control over every department of human conduct, or by the spirit of Puritanism.
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The scepticism which men affect towards their higher inspirations is often not an honest doubt, but a guilty negligence, and is a sign of narrow mind and defective wisdom.
- James Martineau
Tides of the Spirit: Selections from the Writings of James Martineau
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What information consumes is rather obvious: it consumes the attention of its recipients. Hence a wealth of information creates a poverty of attention, and a need to allocate that attention efficiently among the overabundance of information sources that might consume it.
- Herbert Simon
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The western mind makes definitions; it draws lines.
- Camille Paglia
Sexual Personae: Art and Decadence from Nefertiti to Emily Dickinson
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How keen everyone is to make this world their home forgetting its impermanence. It's like trying to see and name constellations in a fireworks display.
- Nadeem Aslam
The Wasted Vigil
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Give love, take pride
- Benny Bellamacina
Piddly poems for children vol:3
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Life is an essay you yourself have to write, start to finish.
- Mo
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The summer's flower is to the summer sweet
Though to itself it only live and die
- William Shakespeare
The Complete Sonnets and Poems
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Make a spurious division of one process into two, forget that you have done it, and then puzzle for centuries as to how the two get together.
- Alan Wilson Watts
The Book: On the Taboo Against Knowing Who You Are
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€7,500, first-class, everything—and all that for 40 minutes selling them some old stuff.
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Whether divine or human, it is precisely the imagination that fashions and recognizes the universe as meaningful, abiding, and valuable, that is to say, as real.
- William K. Mahony
The Artful Universe: An Introduction to the Vedic Religious Imagination
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Ohne Hast, aber ohne Rast. - Without haste, but without rest.
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A philosophy professor at my college, whose baby became enamored of the portrait of David Hume on a Penguin paperback, had the cover laminated in plastic so her daughter could cut her teeth on the great thinker.
- Anne Fadiman
Ex Libris: Confessions of a Common Reader
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All these years of thinking, ending up like this: In front of all this beauty, understanding nothing.
- Bruce Cockburn
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For the reporters, the heroes of our time
- Timothy Snyder
The Road to Unfreedom: Russia, Europe, America
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A photograph does not present us with ‘likenesses’ of things; it presents us, we want to say, with the things themselves. But wanting to say that may well make us ontologically restless. ‘Photographs present us with things themselves’ sounds, and ought to sound, paradoxical … It is no less paradoxical or false to hold up a photograph of Garbo and say, ‘That is not Garbo,’ if all you mean is that the object you are holding up is not a human creature. Such troubles in notating so obvious a fact suggest that we do not know what a photograph is; we do not know how to place it ontologically. We might say that we don’t know how to think of the connection between a photograph and what it is a photograph of.
- Stanley Cavell
The World Viewed: Reflections on the Ontology of Film, Enlarged Edition
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A little while ago I was able to wander in a beautiful sublime fantasy world, in Ossian’s half-dark magical world. But the blessed dreams dissolve; they seem like love potions - they intoxicate, exalt and then disappear, that is the misery and wretchedness of all our feelings. With thoughts it is no better: one easily overthinks things to the point of staleness.
- Karoline von Günderrode
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Your time is the most precious thing in this world.
- Cometan
The Omnidoxy
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There is life in walking, but death in running - there is life in communication, but death in talking - there is life in awareness, but death in judgement - so, be the life my friend, without the judgement, without the talking, without the running - simply be the life, full with sparkling communications, revelatory awareness and heart-warming walks.
- Abhijit Naskar
Time to Save Medicine
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The chief danger to our philosophy, apart from laziness and woolliness, is scholasticism, the essence of which is treating what is vague as if it were precise and trying to fit it into an exact logical category.
- Frank P Ramsey
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
When we move, we are in a way de-structured by our movement toward something: we are both here and at the same time not here because we're already in the process of going elsewhere, if you see what I mean. To stop de-structuring yourself, you have to stop moving altogether. Either you move and you're no longer whole, or you're whole and you can't move.
- Muriel Barbery
The Elegance of the Hedgehog
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But because me and myself, as you no doubt are well aware, we are going to die, my relation—and yours too—to the event of this text, which otherwise never quite makes it, our relation is that of a structurally posthumous necessity.
Suppose, in that case, that I am not alone in my claim to know the idiomatic code (whose notion itself is already contradictory) of this event. What if somewhere, here or there, there are shares in this non-secret’s secret? Even so the scene would not be changed. The accomplices, as you are once again well aware, are also bound to die.
- Jacques Derrida
Spurs: Nietzsche's Styles/Éperons: Les Styles de Nietzsche
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When you can't get what you want, get what you need
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
If your dreams are to hard to achieve, just achieve
- Benny Bellamacina
Piddly Poems for Children, v.2
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
religion, the most powerful of the elements which have entered into the formation of moral feeling, having almost always been governed either by the ambition of a hierarchy, seeking control over every department of human conduct, or by the spirit of Puritanism.
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
The scepticism which men affect towards their higher inspirations is often not an honest doubt, but a guilty negligence, and is a sign of narrow mind and defective wisdom.
- James Martineau
Tides of the Spirit: Selections from the Writings of James Martineau
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
What information consumes is rather obvious: it consumes the attention of its recipients. Hence a wealth of information creates a poverty of attention, and a need to allocate that attention efficiently among the overabundance of information sources that might consume it.
- Herbert Simon
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
The western mind makes definitions; it draws lines.
- Camille Paglia
Sexual Personae: Art and Decadence from Nefertiti to Emily Dickinson
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
How keen everyone is to make this world their home forgetting its impermanence. It's like trying to see and name constellations in a fireworks display.
- Nadeem Aslam
The Wasted Vigil
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Give love, take pride
- Benny Bellamacina
Piddly poems for children vol:3
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Life is an essay you yourself have to write, start to finish.
- Mo
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
The summer's flower is to the summer sweet
Though to itself it only live and die
- William Shakespeare
The Complete Sonnets and Poems
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Make a spurious division of one process into two, forget that you have done it, and then puzzle for centuries as to how the two get together.
- Alan Wilson Watts
The Book: On the Taboo Against Knowing Who You Are
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
€7,500, first-class, everything—and all that for 40 minutes selling them some old stuff.
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Whether divine or human, it is precisely the imagination that fashions and recognizes the universe as meaningful, abiding, and valuable, that is to say, as real.
- William K. Mahony
The Artful Universe: An Introduction to the Vedic Religious Imagination
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Ohne Hast, aber ohne Rast. - Without haste, but without rest.
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
A philosophy professor at my college, whose baby became enamored of the portrait of David Hume on a Penguin paperback, had the cover laminated in plastic so her daughter could cut her teeth on the great thinker.
- Anne Fadiman
Ex Libris: Confessions of a Common Reader
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
All these years of thinking, ending up like this: In front of all this beauty, understanding nothing.
- Bruce Cockburn
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
For the reporters, the heroes of our time
- Timothy Snyder
The Road to Unfreedom: Russia, Europe, America
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
A photograph does not present us with ‘likenesses’ of things; it presents us, we want to say, with the things themselves. But wanting to say that may well make us ontologically restless. ‘Photographs present us with things themselves’ sounds, and ought to sound, paradoxical … It is no less paradoxical or false to hold up a photograph of Garbo and say, ‘That is not Garbo,’ if all you mean is that the object you are holding up is not a human creature. Such troubles in notating so obvious a fact suggest that we do not know what a photograph is; we do not know how to place it ontologically. We might say that we don’t know how to think of the connection between a photograph and what it is a photograph of.
- Stanley Cavell
The World Viewed: Reflections on the Ontology of Film, Enlarged Edition
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
A little while ago I was able to wander in a beautiful sublime fantasy world, in Ossian’s half-dark magical world. But the blessed dreams dissolve; they seem like love potions - they intoxicate, exalt and then disappear, that is the misery and wretchedness of all our feelings. With thoughts it is no better: one easily overthinks things to the point of staleness.
- Karoline von Günderrode
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Your time is the most precious thing in this world.
- Cometan
The Omnidoxy
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There is life in walking, but death in running - there is life in communication, but death in talking - there is life in awareness, but death in judgement - so, be the life my friend, without the judgement, without the talking, without the running - simply be the life, full with sparkling communications, revelatory awareness and heart-warming walks.
- Abhijit Naskar
Time to Save Medicine
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