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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 most common sort of lie is that by which a man deceives himself: the deception of others is a relatively rare offense.
- Friedrich Nietzsche
The Anti-Christ
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If you wake up tired, you’ve been chasing dreams. If you go to bed tired, your making your dreams happen.
- Benny Bellamacina
The King of Rhyme
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Only by examining our personal biases can we grow as artists; only by cultivating empathy can we grow as people.
- Jen Knox
Chaos Magic
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The love of money is the root of all evil, therefore selfishness must be the seed.
- M.D. Birmingham
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Philosophy ought to question the basic assumptions of the age. Thinking through, critically and carefully, what most of us take for granted is, I believe, the chief task of philosophy, and the task that makes philosophy a worthwhile activity.
- Peter Singer
Animal Liberation
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A prince must not have any other object nor any other thought… but war, its institutions, and its discipline; because that is the only art befitting one who commands.
- Niccolò Machiavelli
The Prince
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On a long enough timeline, the survival rate for everyone drops to zero.
- Chuck Palahniuk
Fight Club
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The final belief is to believe in a fiction, which you know to be a fiction, there being nothing else. The exquisite truth is to know that it is a fiction and that you believe in it willingly.
- Wallace Stevens
Opus Posthumous: Poems, Plays, Prose
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If the highest aim of a captain were to preserve his ship, he would keep it in port forever.
- Thomas Aquinas
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…every feeling is the perception of a truth...
- Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz
New Essays on Human Understanding
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The Shadow-maker shapes forever.
- Lafcadio Hearn
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The philosopher whose dealings are with divine order himself acquires the characteristics of order and divinity.
- Plato
The Republic
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Who we are now is all that really matters.
- Amy Joy
The Academie
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Art is the social antithesis of society, not directly deducible from it.
- Theodor W. Adorno
Aesthetic Theory
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Knighthood lies above eternity; it doesn’t live off fame, but rather deeds.
- Dejan Stojanovic
The Sun Watches the Sun
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Wild animals are less wild and more human than many humans of this world
- Munia Khan
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Every form of happiness if one, every desire is driven by the same motor--by our love for a single value, for the highest potentiality of our own existence--and every achievement is an expression of it.
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It does not follow, because our ancestors made so many errors of fact and mixed them with their religion, that we should therefore leave off being religious at all. By being religious we establish ourselves in possession of ultimate reality at the only points at which reality is given us to guard. Our responsible concern is with our private destiny, after all.
- William James
The Varieties of Religious Experience
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Without man and his potential for moral progress, the whole of reality would be a mere wilderness, a thing in vain, and have no final purpose.
- Immanuel Kant
Perpetual Peace
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We are often taught to look for the beauty in all things, so in finding it, the layman asks the philosopher while the philosopher asks the photographer.
- Criss Jami
Killosophy
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I, while the gods laugh, the world's vortex am;
Maelström of passions in that hidden sea
Whose waves of all-time lap the coasts of me;
And in small compass the dark waters cram.

- I, While the Gods Laugh, the World's Vortex Am
- Mervyn Peake
Collected Poems
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There were a group of people before the Ascension known as the Astalsi. They claimed that each person was born with a certain finite amount of ill luck. And so, when an unfortunate event happened, they thought themselves blessed—thereafter, their lives could only get better.
- Brandon Sanderson
Mistborn: The Final Empire
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Trebuie sa te departezi putin de tine ca sa te poti apropia de ceilalti.
- Andrei Plesu
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‎In modern physics, there is no such thing as "nothing." Even in a perfect vacuum, pairs of virtual particles are constantly being created and destroyed. The existence of these particles is no mathematical fiction. Though they cannot be directly observed, the effects they create are quite real. The assumption that they exist leads to predictions that have been confirmed by experiment to a high degree of accuracy.
- Richard Morris
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The most common sort of lie is that by which a man deceives himself: the deception of others is a relatively rare offense.
- Friedrich Nietzsche
The Anti-Christ
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If you wake up tired, you’ve been chasing dreams. If you go to bed tired, your making your dreams happen.
- Benny Bellamacina
The King of Rhyme
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Only by examining our personal biases can we grow as artists; only by cultivating empathy can we grow as people.
- Jen Knox
Chaos Magic
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The love of money is the root of all evil, therefore selfishness must be the seed.
- M.D. Birmingham
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Philosophy ought to question the basic assumptions of the age. Thinking through, critically and carefully, what most of us take for granted is, I believe, the chief task of philosophy, and the task that makes philosophy a worthwhile activity.
- Peter Singer
Animal Liberation
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A prince must not have any other object nor any other thought… but war, its institutions, and its discipline; because that is the only art befitting one who commands.
- Niccolò Machiavelli
The Prince
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On a long enough timeline, the survival rate for everyone drops to zero.
- Chuck Palahniuk
Fight Club
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The final belief is to believe in a fiction, which you know to be a fiction, there being nothing else. The exquisite truth is to know that it is a fiction and that you believe in it willingly.
- Wallace Stevens
Opus Posthumous: Poems, Plays, Prose
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If the highest aim of a captain were to preserve his ship, he would keep it in port forever.
- Thomas Aquinas
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…every feeling is the perception of a truth...
- Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz
New Essays on Human Understanding
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The Shadow-maker shapes forever.
- Lafcadio Hearn
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The philosopher whose dealings are with divine order himself acquires the characteristics of order and divinity.
- Plato
The Republic
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Who we are now is all that really matters.
- Amy Joy
The Academie
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Art is the social antithesis of society, not directly deducible from it.
- Theodor W. Adorno
Aesthetic Theory
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Knighthood lies above eternity; it doesn’t live off fame, but rather deeds.
- Dejan Stojanovic
The Sun Watches the Sun
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Wild animals are less wild and more human than many humans of this world
- Munia Khan
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Every form of happiness if one, every desire is driven by the same motor--by our love for a single value, for the highest potentiality of our own existence--and every achievement is an expression of it.
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It does not follow, because our ancestors made so many errors of fact and mixed them with their religion, that we should therefore leave off being religious at all. By being religious we establish ourselves in possession of ultimate reality at the only points at which reality is given us to guard. Our responsible concern is with our private destiny, after all.
- William James
The Varieties of Religious Experience
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Without man and his potential for moral progress, the whole of reality would be a mere wilderness, a thing in vain, and have no final purpose.
- Immanuel Kant
Perpetual Peace
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We are often taught to look for the beauty in all things, so in finding it, the layman asks the philosopher while the philosopher asks the photographer.
- Criss Jami
Killosophy
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I, while the gods laugh, the world's vortex am;
Maelström of passions in that hidden sea
Whose waves of all-time lap the coasts of me;
And in small compass the dark waters cram.

- I, While the Gods Laugh, the World's Vortex Am
- Mervyn Peake
Collected Poems
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There were a group of people before the Ascension known as the Astalsi. They claimed that each person was born with a certain finite amount of ill luck. And so, when an unfortunate event happened, they thought themselves blessed—thereafter, their lives could only get better.
- Brandon Sanderson
Mistborn: The Final Empire
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Trebuie sa te departezi putin de tine ca sa te poti apropia de ceilalti.
- Andrei Plesu
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‎In modern physics, there is no such thing as "nothing." Even in a perfect vacuum, pairs of virtual particles are constantly being created and destroyed. The existence of these particles is no mathematical fiction. Though they cannot be directly observed, the effects they create are quite real. The assumption that they exist leads to predictions that have been confirmed by experiment to a high degree of accuracy.
- Richard Morris
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The most common sort of lie is that by which a man deceives himself: the deception of others is a relatively rare offense.
- Friedrich Nietzsche
The Anti-Christ
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If you wake up tired, you’ve been chasing dreams. If you go to bed tired, your making your dreams happen.
- Benny Bellamacina
The King of Rhyme
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Only by examining our personal biases can we grow as artists; only by cultivating empathy can we grow as people.
- Jen Knox
Chaos Magic
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
The love of money is the root of all evil, therefore selfishness must be the seed.
- M.D. Birmingham
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Philosophy ought to question the basic assumptions of the age. Thinking through, critically and carefully, what most of us take for granted is, I believe, the chief task of philosophy, and the task that makes philosophy a worthwhile activity.
- Peter Singer
Animal Liberation
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A prince must not have any other object nor any other thought… but war, its institutions, and its discipline; because that is the only art befitting one who commands.
- Niccolò Machiavelli
The Prince
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
On a long enough timeline, the survival rate for everyone drops to zero.
- Chuck Palahniuk
Fight Club
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
The final belief is to believe in a fiction, which you know to be a fiction, there being nothing else. The exquisite truth is to know that it is a fiction and that you believe in it willingly.
- Wallace Stevens
Opus Posthumous: Poems, Plays, Prose
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If the highest aim of a captain were to preserve his ship, he would keep it in port forever.
- Thomas Aquinas
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
…every feeling is the perception of a truth...
- Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz
New Essays on Human Understanding
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
The Shadow-maker shapes forever.
- Lafcadio Hearn
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
The philosopher whose dealings are with divine order himself acquires the characteristics of order and divinity.
- Plato
The Republic
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Who we are now is all that really matters.
- Amy Joy
The Academie
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Art is the social antithesis of society, not directly deducible from it.
- Theodor W. Adorno
Aesthetic Theory
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Knighthood lies above eternity; it doesn’t live off fame, but rather deeds.
- Dejan Stojanovic
The Sun Watches the Sun
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Wild animals are less wild and more human than many humans of this world
- Munia Khan
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Every form of happiness if one, every desire is driven by the same motor--by our love for a single value, for the highest potentiality of our own existence--and every achievement is an expression of it.
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
It does not follow, because our ancestors made so many errors of fact and mixed them with their religion, that we should therefore leave off being religious at all. By being religious we establish ourselves in possession of ultimate reality at the only points at which reality is given us to guard. Our responsible concern is with our private destiny, after all.
- William James
The Varieties of Religious Experience
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Without man and his potential for moral progress, the whole of reality would be a mere wilderness, a thing in vain, and have no final purpose.
- Immanuel Kant
Perpetual Peace
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
We are often taught to look for the beauty in all things, so in finding it, the layman asks the philosopher while the philosopher asks the photographer.
- Criss Jami
Killosophy
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
I, while the gods laugh, the world's vortex am;
Maelström of passions in that hidden sea
Whose waves of all-time lap the coasts of me;
And in small compass the dark waters cram.

- I, While the Gods Laugh, the World's Vortex Am
- Mervyn Peake
Collected Poems
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
There were a group of people before the Ascension known as the Astalsi. They claimed that each person was born with a certain finite amount of ill luck. And so, when an unfortunate event happened, they thought themselves blessed—thereafter, their lives could only get better.
- Brandon Sanderson
Mistborn: The Final Empire
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Trebuie sa te departezi putin de tine ca sa te poti apropia de ceilalti.
- Andrei Plesu
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
‎In modern physics, there is no such thing as "nothing." Even in a perfect vacuum, pairs of virtual particles are constantly being created and destroyed. The existence of these particles is no mathematical fiction. Though they cannot be directly observed, the effects they create are quite real. The assumption that they exist leads to predictions that have been confirmed by experiment to a high degree of accuracy.
- Richard Morris
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