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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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Even if there is a small lie in the truth you telling. It will make the truth questionable.
- De_philosopher_DJKyos
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A revelation leaps over the borders of the everyday. A life without revelation is no life at all. What you need to do is move from reason that ‘observes’ to reason that ‘acts’. That’s what critical.
- Haruki Murakami
Kafka on the Shore
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There are only two most powerful situations- being so small that you have nothing to lose and being so big that you don't care what you lose!
- Jasleen Kaur Gumber
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It is not what we have that matters; what matters is what we give away with love.
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We are the sum total of the decisions we have made.
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The certainty about the uncertain (in view to life) is that it will remain uncertain till the time its certain.
- Mayank Sharma
A Cocktail of Love
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A novel is never anything but a philosophy expressed in images. And in a good novel the philosophy has disappeared into the images.
- Albert Camus
Lyrical and Critical Essays
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Sin is a gravitation.
- Victor Hugo
Les Misérables
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Without causality in the world, there is no point in educating people, or making any moral or political appeal.
- Felix Alba-Juez
The Perception of Time... and its Measurement
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Δύο υπερβολές : ν' αποκλείουμε το Λόγο, και να μη δεχόμαστε παρά μόνο το Λόγο.
- Blaise Pascal
Pensées
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I think, therefore a single fertilized egg cell can replicate itself into trillions of specialized and exquisitely organized cells.
- Self
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The present convergence of crises––in money, energy, education, health, water, soil, climate, politics, the environment, and more––is a birth crisis, expelling us from the old world into a new.
- Charles Eisenstein
Sacred Economics: Money, Gift, and Society in the Age of Transition
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To live in any true sense of the word is to reject others; to accept them, one must be able to renounce, to do oneself violence, to act against one's own nature, to weaken oneself; we conceive freedom only for ourselves - we extend it to our neighbours only at the cost of exhausting efforts; whence the precariousness of liberalism, a defiance of our instincts, a brief and miraculous success, a state of exception, at the antipodes of our deepest imperatives.
- Emil Cioran
History and Utopia
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What do they know of cricket who only cricket know?
- C.L.R. James
Beyond a Boundary
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If we thought more for ourselves we would have very many more bad books and very many more good ones.
- Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
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we deceive ourselves in thinking that death only follows life whereas it both goes before and will follow after it for where is the difference in not beginning or ceasing to exist the effect of both is not to be
- Seneca
Letters from a Stoic
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It's harder to make the glass than break the glass.
- The RZA
The Tao of Wu
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Don’t reject something just because it seems strange. It’s comfort that will kill you in the end.
- Simon Morden
The Lost Art
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The Philosopher's Motto: I came, I saw, I pondered!
- Greg Curtis
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Sufficiently simple natural structures are predictable but uncontrollable, whereas sufficiently complex symbolic descriptions are controllable but unpredictable.
- Howard Pattee
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If you write in the Old World, and against it, your work must die, go missing, be veiled, before it can live the life for which it was destined in the New World.
- Patrick Nowell-Smith
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A doctrine of expression rather than one of suppression makes a stronger appeal to man.
- Holly Estil Cunningham
An Introduction to Philosophy
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I have learned to be a friend to myself Great improvement this indeed Such a one can never be said to be alone for know that he who is a friend to himself is a friend to all mankind
- Lucius Annaeus Seneca
Letters from a Stoic
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How do we account for this paradox that the absence of Law universalizes prohibition ... The psychoanalytic name for this obscene injunction for this obscene call, ENJOY, is superego. The problem today is not how to get rid of your inhibitions and to be able to spontaneously enjoy. The problem is how to get rid of this injunction to enjoy.
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Even if there is a small lie in the truth you telling. It will make the truth questionable.
- De_philosopher_DJKyos
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A revelation leaps over the borders of the everyday. A life without revelation is no life at all. What you need to do is move from reason that ‘observes’ to reason that ‘acts’. That’s what critical.
- Haruki Murakami
Kafka on the Shore
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There are only two most powerful situations- being so small that you have nothing to lose and being so big that you don't care what you lose!
- Jasleen Kaur Gumber
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It is not what we have that matters; what matters is what we give away with love.
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We are the sum total of the decisions we have made.
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The certainty about the uncertain (in view to life) is that it will remain uncertain till the time its certain.
- Mayank Sharma
A Cocktail of Love
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A novel is never anything but a philosophy expressed in images. And in a good novel the philosophy has disappeared into the images.
- Albert Camus
Lyrical and Critical Essays
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Sin is a gravitation.
- Victor Hugo
Les Misérables
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Without causality in the world, there is no point in educating people, or making any moral or political appeal.
- Felix Alba-Juez
The Perception of Time... and its Measurement
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Δύο υπερβολές : ν' αποκλείουμε το Λόγο, και να μη δεχόμαστε παρά μόνο το Λόγο.
- Blaise Pascal
Pensées
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I think, therefore a single fertilized egg cell can replicate itself into trillions of specialized and exquisitely organized cells.
- Self
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The present convergence of crises––in money, energy, education, health, water, soil, climate, politics, the environment, and more––is a birth crisis, expelling us from the old world into a new.
- Charles Eisenstein
Sacred Economics: Money, Gift, and Society in the Age of Transition
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To live in any true sense of the word is to reject others; to accept them, one must be able to renounce, to do oneself violence, to act against one's own nature, to weaken oneself; we conceive freedom only for ourselves - we extend it to our neighbours only at the cost of exhausting efforts; whence the precariousness of liberalism, a defiance of our instincts, a brief and miraculous success, a state of exception, at the antipodes of our deepest imperatives.
- Emil Cioran
History and Utopia
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What do they know of cricket who only cricket know?
- C.L.R. James
Beyond a Boundary
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If we thought more for ourselves we would have very many more bad books and very many more good ones.
- Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
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we deceive ourselves in thinking that death only follows life whereas it both goes before and will follow after it for where is the difference in not beginning or ceasing to exist the effect of both is not to be
- Seneca
Letters from a Stoic
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It's harder to make the glass than break the glass.
- The RZA
The Tao of Wu
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Don’t reject something just because it seems strange. It’s comfort that will kill you in the end.
- Simon Morden
The Lost Art
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The Philosopher's Motto: I came, I saw, I pondered!
- Greg Curtis
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Sufficiently simple natural structures are predictable but uncontrollable, whereas sufficiently complex symbolic descriptions are controllable but unpredictable.
- Howard Pattee
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If you write in the Old World, and against it, your work must die, go missing, be veiled, before it can live the life for which it was destined in the New World.
- Patrick Nowell-Smith
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A doctrine of expression rather than one of suppression makes a stronger appeal to man.
- Holly Estil Cunningham
An Introduction to Philosophy
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I have learned to be a friend to myself Great improvement this indeed Such a one can never be said to be alone for know that he who is a friend to himself is a friend to all mankind
- Lucius Annaeus Seneca
Letters from a Stoic
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How do we account for this paradox that the absence of Law universalizes prohibition ... The psychoanalytic name for this obscene injunction for this obscene call, ENJOY, is superego. The problem today is not how to get rid of your inhibitions and to be able to spontaneously enjoy. The problem is how to get rid of this injunction to enjoy.
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Even if there is a small lie in the truth you telling. It will make the truth questionable.
- De_philosopher_DJKyos
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A revelation leaps over the borders of the everyday. A life without revelation is no life at all. What you need to do is move from reason that ‘observes’ to reason that ‘acts’. That’s what critical.
- Haruki Murakami
Kafka on the Shore
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There are only two most powerful situations- being so small that you have nothing to lose and being so big that you don't care what you lose!
- Jasleen Kaur Gumber
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
It is not what we have that matters; what matters is what we give away with love.
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
We are the sum total of the decisions we have made.
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
The certainty about the uncertain (in view to life) is that it will remain uncertain till the time its certain.
- Mayank Sharma
A Cocktail of Love
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
A novel is never anything but a philosophy expressed in images. And in a good novel the philosophy has disappeared into the images.
- Albert Camus
Lyrical and Critical Essays
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Sin is a gravitation.
- Victor Hugo
Les Misérables
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Without causality in the world, there is no point in educating people, or making any moral or political appeal.
- Felix Alba-Juez
The Perception of Time... and its Measurement
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Δύο υπερβολές : ν' αποκλείουμε το Λόγο, και να μη δεχόμαστε παρά μόνο το Λόγο.
- Blaise Pascal
Pensées
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I think, therefore a single fertilized egg cell can replicate itself into trillions of specialized and exquisitely organized cells.
- Self
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The present convergence of crises––in money, energy, education, health, water, soil, climate, politics, the environment, and more––is a birth crisis, expelling us from the old world into a new.
- Charles Eisenstein
Sacred Economics: Money, Gift, and Society in the Age of Transition
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
To live in any true sense of the word is to reject others; to accept them, one must be able to renounce, to do oneself violence, to act against one's own nature, to weaken oneself; we conceive freedom only for ourselves - we extend it to our neighbours only at the cost of exhausting efforts; whence the precariousness of liberalism, a defiance of our instincts, a brief and miraculous success, a state of exception, at the antipodes of our deepest imperatives.
- Emil Cioran
History and Utopia
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
What do they know of cricket who only cricket know?
- C.L.R. James
Beyond a Boundary
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
If we thought more for ourselves we would have very many more bad books and very many more good ones.
- Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
we deceive ourselves in thinking that death only follows life whereas it both goes before and will follow after it for where is the difference in not beginning or ceasing to exist the effect of both is not to be
- Seneca
Letters from a Stoic
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
It's harder to make the glass than break the glass.
- The RZA
The Tao of Wu
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Don’t reject something just because it seems strange. It’s comfort that will kill you in the end.
- Simon Morden
The Lost Art
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
The Philosopher's Motto: I came, I saw, I pondered!
- Greg Curtis
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Sufficiently simple natural structures are predictable but uncontrollable, whereas sufficiently complex symbolic descriptions are controllable but unpredictable.
- Howard Pattee
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
If you write in the Old World, and against it, your work must die, go missing, be veiled, before it can live the life for which it was destined in the New World.
- Patrick Nowell-Smith
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
A doctrine of expression rather than one of suppression makes a stronger appeal to man.
- Holly Estil Cunningham
An Introduction to Philosophy
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
I have learned to be a friend to myself Great improvement this indeed Such a one can never be said to be alone for know that he who is a friend to himself is a friend to all mankind
- Lucius Annaeus Seneca
Letters from a Stoic
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How do we account for this paradox that the absence of Law universalizes prohibition ... The psychoanalytic name for this obscene injunction for this obscene call, ENJOY, is superego. The problem today is not how to get rid of your inhibitions and to be able to spontaneously enjoy. The problem is how to get rid of this injunction to enjoy.
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