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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 a well known fact that even among highly cultured peoples the belief in animism prevails generally. Even the scholar may kick the chair against which he accidentally stumbles, and derive great satisfaction from thus 'getting even' with the perverse chair.
- Holly Estil Cunningham
An Introduction to Philosophy
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Socrates: This man, on one hand, believes that he knows something, while not knowing [anything]. On the other hand, I – equally ignorant – do not believe [that I know anything].
- Plato
Apology
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Really, nobody was there?” I asked.
“Well, nobody important,” he said, putting his glasses back on and blinking.
- Daniel Amory
Minor Snobs
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Good god it's great to be a Bull Mongoni!
- James J. Caterino
Rise of the Bull Mongoni
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Most of us form estimates of our intelligence, wisdom, and moral fiber that are considerably higher than an objective estimate would warrant; no doubt 90 percent of us think ourselves well above average along these lines.
- Alvin Plantinga
Warranted Christian Belief
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We all reach a point that is the limit of our understanding. When we stare over the precipice of uncertainty and into the dark unknown that we cannot explain with hard evidence, that is when we trade understanding for belief. At best, we make an educated guess. At worst, we make blind leaps of faith.
- Ramsey Isler
The Ninth Order
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If you can't test it, it's not theorics -- it's metatheorics. A branch of philosophy. So, if you want to think of it this way, our test equipment is what defines the boundary separating theorics from philosophy.
- Neal Stephenson
Anathem
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He was a philosopher, if you know what that was.’
‘A man who dreams of fewer things than there are in heaven and earth,’ said the Savage promptly.
‘Quite so…
- Aldous Huxley
Brave New World
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Morality can provide at most only a severely limited and insufficient answer to the question of how a person should live.
- Harry G. Frankfurt
The Reasons of Love
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A farm regulated to production of raw commodities is not a farm at all. It is a temporary blip until the land is used up, the water polluted, the neighbors nauseated, and the air unbreathable. The farmhouse, the concrete, the machinery, and outbuildings become relics of a bygone vibrancy when another family farm moves to the city financial centers for relief.
- Joel Salatin
Everything I Want To Do Is Illegal: War Stories from the Local Food Front
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For Christians . . . an unreflective faith is not possible if we take seriously the injunction to love God with the mind as well as the heart and soul.
- Delwin Brown
What Does a Progressive Christian Believe?: A Guide for the Searching, the Open, and the Curious
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Man, this creature so 'noble in faculty,' moves step by step in a pilgrimage that is destined to bring him only back again to the inanimate state of the stone. From dust we are, and to dust we ultimately return.
- Rollo May
Love and Will
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We were all wild humans before we became civilized in that peculiar process of self-domestication known as the Neolithic agricultural revolution. The word 'wild' is related to the word 'will'; the wild creature is self-willed, autonomous, not domesticated, living by nature's ways, not the laws of human beings.
- Ralph Metzner
Green Psychology: Transforming our Relationship to the Earth
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I will also say this, your body is a vessel for your mind. You will have evil thoughts that will come across your mind. If you decide to pursue those evil thoughts and act upon those wrongdoings, just remember this you can easily hide your thoughts, but not your actions.
- Meshach Ford
The Quote-DAH.: A Wise Choice was Surrounded by Wisdom.
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The burden of my argument is that to set oneself up like this in such a defeatingly vast and intimidatingly inhuman structure is merely to announce the coming to rest of one's progress, and without that we are lost."

"Di burdin ov mi argumint is dat 2 set Iself up like dis in such a defeetinly vast & intimidaytinly inhumin structyir is meerly 2 anounce di cumin 2 rest ov 1s progress, & witout dat we r lost.
- Iain M. Banks
Feersum Endjinn
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The relentless pursuit of consumer goods feeds the entitled 'false self,' while the insecure and empty inner self remains anxious and wounded—driven then to buy even more goods to cover up the inner emptiness. The empty self seeks the experience of being continually filled up in an attempt to combat the growing alienation.
- Ralph Metzner
Green Psychology: Transforming our Relationship to the Earth
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The Outer Wastes by Stewart Stafford

Echoes across the cosmos
Supernovae of Gemini suns,
Truth storms of meteor showers,
Coronas flashing frigid guns.

Spinning stone bedrock cracks,
A diaspora exiled to the void,
Interstellar offspring pushing
Sentience for the ultra-paranoid.

Pandora's black hole gifts,
Astrologer spins a cosmic warning,
Scrubbing up, celestial enlightenment,
Serpentine Adam's apple ripe for boring.

© 2026, Stewart Stafford. All rights reserved.
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All worries are less with wine.
- Amit Kalantri
Wealth of Words
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Take care of your costume and your confidence will take care of itself.
- Amit Kalantri
Wealth of Words
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In your name, the family name is at last because it's the family name that lasts.
- Amit Kalantri
Wealth of Words
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It does not matter how long you are spending on the earth, how much money you have gathered or how much attention you have received. It is the amount of positive vibration you have radiated in life that matters,
- Amit Ray
Meditation: Insights and Inspirations
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You push the TRUTH off a cliff, but it will always fly. You can submerge the TRUTH under water, but it will not drown. You can place the TRUTH in the fire, but it will survive. You can bury the TRUTH beneath the ground, but it will arise. TRUTH always prevails!
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Once your soul is awakened, you never return to the sleepwalking state of mind. Some people become complacent in life. They are just going through the motions and not aware of truth. Seek the knowledge, wisdom, and the understandings that vivify your existence.
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Dreams. They start in your beautiful mind. Think of beautiful things and it will manifest into actions because your body will listen to you. Like it always does.
- Happy Positivity
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It is a well known fact that even among highly cultured peoples the belief in animism prevails generally. Even the scholar may kick the chair against which he accidentally stumbles, and derive great satisfaction from thus 'getting even' with the perverse chair.
- Holly Estil Cunningham
An Introduction to Philosophy
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Socrates: This man, on one hand, believes that he knows something, while not knowing [anything]. On the other hand, I – equally ignorant – do not believe [that I know anything].
- Plato
Apology
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Really, nobody was there?” I asked.
“Well, nobody important,” he said, putting his glasses back on and blinking.
- Daniel Amory
Minor Snobs
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Good god it's great to be a Bull Mongoni!
- James J. Caterino
Rise of the Bull Mongoni
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Most of us form estimates of our intelligence, wisdom, and moral fiber that are considerably higher than an objective estimate would warrant; no doubt 90 percent of us think ourselves well above average along these lines.
- Alvin Plantinga
Warranted Christian Belief
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We all reach a point that is the limit of our understanding. When we stare over the precipice of uncertainty and into the dark unknown that we cannot explain with hard evidence, that is when we trade understanding for belief. At best, we make an educated guess. At worst, we make blind leaps of faith.
- Ramsey Isler
The Ninth Order
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If you can't test it, it's not theorics -- it's metatheorics. A branch of philosophy. So, if you want to think of it this way, our test equipment is what defines the boundary separating theorics from philosophy.
- Neal Stephenson
Anathem
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He was a philosopher, if you know what that was.’
‘A man who dreams of fewer things than there are in heaven and earth,’ said the Savage promptly.
‘Quite so…
- Aldous Huxley
Brave New World
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Morality can provide at most only a severely limited and insufficient answer to the question of how a person should live.
- Harry G. Frankfurt
The Reasons of Love
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A farm regulated to production of raw commodities is not a farm at all. It is a temporary blip until the land is used up, the water polluted, the neighbors nauseated, and the air unbreathable. The farmhouse, the concrete, the machinery, and outbuildings become relics of a bygone vibrancy when another family farm moves to the city financial centers for relief.
- Joel Salatin
Everything I Want To Do Is Illegal: War Stories from the Local Food Front
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For Christians . . . an unreflective faith is not possible if we take seriously the injunction to love God with the mind as well as the heart and soul.
- Delwin Brown
What Does a Progressive Christian Believe?: A Guide for the Searching, the Open, and the Curious
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Man, this creature so 'noble in faculty,' moves step by step in a pilgrimage that is destined to bring him only back again to the inanimate state of the stone. From dust we are, and to dust we ultimately return.
- Rollo May
Love and Will
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
We were all wild humans before we became civilized in that peculiar process of self-domestication known as the Neolithic agricultural revolution. The word 'wild' is related to the word 'will'; the wild creature is self-willed, autonomous, not domesticated, living by nature's ways, not the laws of human beings.
- Ralph Metzner
Green Psychology: Transforming our Relationship to the Earth
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
I will also say this, your body is a vessel for your mind. You will have evil thoughts that will come across your mind. If you decide to pursue those evil thoughts and act upon those wrongdoings, just remember this you can easily hide your thoughts, but not your actions.
- Meshach Ford
The Quote-DAH.: A Wise Choice was Surrounded by Wisdom.
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The burden of my argument is that to set oneself up like this in such a defeatingly vast and intimidatingly inhuman structure is merely to announce the coming to rest of one's progress, and without that we are lost."

"Di burdin ov mi argumint is dat 2 set Iself up like dis in such a defeetinly vast & intimidaytinly inhumin structyir is meerly 2 anounce di cumin 2 rest ov 1s progress, & witout dat we r lost.
- Iain M. Banks
Feersum Endjinn
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The relentless pursuit of consumer goods feeds the entitled 'false self,' while the insecure and empty inner self remains anxious and wounded—driven then to buy even more goods to cover up the inner emptiness. The empty self seeks the experience of being continually filled up in an attempt to combat the growing alienation.
- Ralph Metzner
Green Psychology: Transforming our Relationship to the Earth
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
The Outer Wastes by Stewart Stafford

Echoes across the cosmos
Supernovae of Gemini suns,
Truth storms of meteor showers,
Coronas flashing frigid guns.

Spinning stone bedrock cracks,
A diaspora exiled to the void,
Interstellar offspring pushing
Sentience for the ultra-paranoid.

Pandora's black hole gifts,
Astrologer spins a cosmic warning,
Scrubbing up, celestial enlightenment,
Serpentine Adam's apple ripe for boring.

© 2026, Stewart Stafford. All rights reserved.
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All worries are less with wine.
- Amit Kalantri
Wealth of Words
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Take care of your costume and your confidence will take care of itself.
- Amit Kalantri
Wealth of Words
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
In your name, the family name is at last because it's the family name that lasts.
- Amit Kalantri
Wealth of Words
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
It does not matter how long you are spending on the earth, how much money you have gathered or how much attention you have received. It is the amount of positive vibration you have radiated in life that matters,
- Amit Ray
Meditation: Insights and Inspirations
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
You push the TRUTH off a cliff, but it will always fly. You can submerge the TRUTH under water, but it will not drown. You can place the TRUTH in the fire, but it will survive. You can bury the TRUTH beneath the ground, but it will arise. TRUTH always prevails!
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Once your soul is awakened, you never return to the sleepwalking state of mind. Some people become complacent in life. They are just going through the motions and not aware of truth. Seek the knowledge, wisdom, and the understandings that vivify your existence.
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Dreams. They start in your beautiful mind. Think of beautiful things and it will manifest into actions because your body will listen to you. Like it always does.
- Happy Positivity
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
It is a well known fact that even among highly cultured peoples the belief in animism prevails generally. Even the scholar may kick the chair against which he accidentally stumbles, and derive great satisfaction from thus 'getting even' with the perverse chair.
- Holly Estil Cunningham
An Introduction to Philosophy
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Socrates: This man, on one hand, believes that he knows something, while not knowing [anything]. On the other hand, I – equally ignorant – do not believe [that I know anything].
- Plato
Apology
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Really, nobody was there?” I asked.
“Well, nobody important,” he said, putting his glasses back on and blinking.
- Daniel Amory
Minor Snobs
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Good god it's great to be a Bull Mongoni!
- James J. Caterino
Rise of the Bull Mongoni
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Most of us form estimates of our intelligence, wisdom, and moral fiber that are considerably higher than an objective estimate would warrant; no doubt 90 percent of us think ourselves well above average along these lines.
- Alvin Plantinga
Warranted Christian Belief
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
We all reach a point that is the limit of our understanding. When we stare over the precipice of uncertainty and into the dark unknown that we cannot explain with hard evidence, that is when we trade understanding for belief. At best, we make an educated guess. At worst, we make blind leaps of faith.
- Ramsey Isler
The Ninth Order
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
If you can't test it, it's not theorics -- it's metatheorics. A branch of philosophy. So, if you want to think of it this way, our test equipment is what defines the boundary separating theorics from philosophy.
- Neal Stephenson
Anathem
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
He was a philosopher, if you know what that was.’
‘A man who dreams of fewer things than there are in heaven and earth,’ said the Savage promptly.
‘Quite so…
- Aldous Huxley
Brave New World
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Morality can provide at most only a severely limited and insufficient answer to the question of how a person should live.
- Harry G. Frankfurt
The Reasons of Love
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
A farm regulated to production of raw commodities is not a farm at all. It is a temporary blip until the land is used up, the water polluted, the neighbors nauseated, and the air unbreathable. The farmhouse, the concrete, the machinery, and outbuildings become relics of a bygone vibrancy when another family farm moves to the city financial centers for relief.
- Joel Salatin
Everything I Want To Do Is Illegal: War Stories from the Local Food Front
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
For Christians . . . an unreflective faith is not possible if we take seriously the injunction to love God with the mind as well as the heart and soul.
- Delwin Brown
What Does a Progressive Christian Believe?: A Guide for the Searching, the Open, and the Curious
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Man, this creature so 'noble in faculty,' moves step by step in a pilgrimage that is destined to bring him only back again to the inanimate state of the stone. From dust we are, and to dust we ultimately return.
- Rollo May
Love and Will
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
We were all wild humans before we became civilized in that peculiar process of self-domestication known as the Neolithic agricultural revolution. The word 'wild' is related to the word 'will'; the wild creature is self-willed, autonomous, not domesticated, living by nature's ways, not the laws of human beings.
- Ralph Metzner
Green Psychology: Transforming our Relationship to the Earth
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
I will also say this, your body is a vessel for your mind. You will have evil thoughts that will come across your mind. If you decide to pursue those evil thoughts and act upon those wrongdoings, just remember this you can easily hide your thoughts, but not your actions.
- Meshach Ford
The Quote-DAH.: A Wise Choice was Surrounded by Wisdom.
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
The burden of my argument is that to set oneself up like this in such a defeatingly vast and intimidatingly inhuman structure is merely to announce the coming to rest of one's progress, and without that we are lost."

"Di burdin ov mi argumint is dat 2 set Iself up like dis in such a defeetinly vast & intimidaytinly inhumin structyir is meerly 2 anounce di cumin 2 rest ov 1s progress, & witout dat we r lost.
- Iain M. Banks
Feersum Endjinn
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The relentless pursuit of consumer goods feeds the entitled 'false self,' while the insecure and empty inner self remains anxious and wounded—driven then to buy even more goods to cover up the inner emptiness. The empty self seeks the experience of being continually filled up in an attempt to combat the growing alienation.
- Ralph Metzner
Green Psychology: Transforming our Relationship to the Earth
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
The Outer Wastes by Stewart Stafford

Echoes across the cosmos
Supernovae of Gemini suns,
Truth storms of meteor showers,
Coronas flashing frigid guns.

Spinning stone bedrock cracks,
A diaspora exiled to the void,
Interstellar offspring pushing
Sentience for the ultra-paranoid.

Pandora's black hole gifts,
Astrologer spins a cosmic warning,
Scrubbing up, celestial enlightenment,
Serpentine Adam's apple ripe for boring.

© 2026, Stewart Stafford. All rights reserved.
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
All worries are less with wine.
- Amit Kalantri
Wealth of Words
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Take care of your costume and your confidence will take care of itself.
- Amit Kalantri
Wealth of Words
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
In your name, the family name is at last because it's the family name that lasts.
- Amit Kalantri
Wealth of Words
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
It does not matter how long you are spending on the earth, how much money you have gathered or how much attention you have received. It is the amount of positive vibration you have radiated in life that matters,
- Amit Ray
Meditation: Insights and Inspirations
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
You push the TRUTH off a cliff, but it will always fly. You can submerge the TRUTH under water, but it will not drown. You can place the TRUTH in the fire, but it will survive. You can bury the TRUTH beneath the ground, but it will arise. TRUTH always prevails!
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Once your soul is awakened, you never return to the sleepwalking state of mind. Some people become complacent in life. They are just going through the motions and not aware of truth. Seek the knowledge, wisdom, and the understandings that vivify your existence.
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Dreams. They start in your beautiful mind. Think of beautiful things and it will manifest into actions because your body will listen to you. Like it always does.
- Happy Positivity
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
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