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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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Reason is, and ought only to be the slave of the passions, and can never pretend to any other office than to serve and obey them.
…'Tis not contrary to reason to prefer the destruction of the whole world to the scratching of my finger.
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Many things are mechanical and should remain mechanical. But mechanical thoughts, mechanical feelings—that is what has to be studied and can and should be changed. Mechanical thinking is not worth a penny. You can think about many things mechanically, but you will get nothing from it.
- P.D. Ouspensky
The Fourth Way: An Arrangement by Subject of Verbatim Extracts from the Records of Ouspensky's Meetings in London and New York, 1921-46
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Steve's throat swelled with tension as the intimacy of the moment became more tangible. He moved his eyes from the dark, reflective river, to the dark, reflective pupils in Diane's eyes. They seemed to quiver with tenderness - but then they would grow distant. He found himself continually surprised at the "aliveness" of the person standing just a foot away from him now. She wasn't inanimate: she would flinch if he pinched her, and answer if he asked her. And she was beautiful." -- From "The Grand Unified Story" -- a short story in Zack Love's Stories and Scripts: an Anthology
- Zack Love
Stories and Scripts: an Anthology
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My mind was formed by studying philosophy, Plato and that sort of thing.
- Werner Heisenberg
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Guilt is a feeling that you owe a debt that you're not paying.
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Take a newspaper.
Take some scissors.
Choose from this paper an article of the length you want to make your poem.
Cut out the article.
Next carefully cut out each of the words that makes up this article and put them all in a bag.
Shake gently.
Next take out each cutting one after the other.
Copy conscientiously in the order in which they left the bag.
The poem will resemble you.
And there you are -- an infinitely original author of charming sensibility, even though unappreciated by the vulgar herd.
- Tristan Tzara
Seven Dada Manifestos and Lampisteries
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Part of the maturity of the sciences is an appreciation of which questions are best left to other disciplinary approaches.
- Howard Gardner
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Irony? Irony can never be more than our own personal Maginot line; the drawing of it, for the most part, purely arbitrary.
- Mark Z. Danielewski
House of Leaves
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What comes, is called.
- Ki Longfellow
Flow Down Like Silver
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One word can change your life forever.

I love you
I hate you

Think about it
- Alan Macmillan Orr
The Natural Mind - Waking Up: Volume I
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One must try to make one's life as pleasant as possible. I'm alive and it's not my fault, which means I must somehow go on living the best I can, without bothering anybody, until I die.'
'But what makes you live? With such thoughts, you'll sit without moving, without undertaking anything...'
'Life won't leave one alone as it is.
- Leo Tolstoy
War and Peace
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There is no such thing as educational value in the abstract. The notion that some subjects and methods and that acquaintance with certain facts and truths possess educational value in and of themselves is the reason why traditional education reduced the material of education so largely to a diet of predigested materials.
- John Dewey
Experience and Education
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Nu pot fi eu insumi decat daca ma inalt pana la furie sau cobor pana la descurajare: la nivelul meu obisnuit, ignor faptul ca exist.
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First impressions are rarely worth preserving. Men typically fall short of our expectations.
- Renate Linnenkoper
Exogenesis
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True siblings are bound together by far more essential things than blood, while more times than many blood isn't thicker than water.
- Constantina Maud
Hydranos
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The greatest mystery the universe offers is not life but Size.
- Stephen King
The Gunslinger
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La memoria es como libro en el cual se escribe toda nuestra vida. Algunas veces deseamos cerrarlo y olvidarlo para no recordar todos los escabrosos detalles, y otras veces deseamos abrirlo y observarlo detenidamente, queriendo volver a sentir lo mismo que sentimos en aquel momento.
- Audrey Dry
Sin mirar atrás
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Of all people only those are at leisure who make time for philosophy, only those are really alive. For they not only keep a good watch over their own lifetimes, but they annex every age to theirs. All the years that have passed before them are added to their own. Unless we are very ungrateful, all those distinguished founders of holy creeds were born for us and prepared for us a way of life. By the toil of others we are led into the presence of things which have been brought from darkness into light. We are excluded from no age, but we have access to them all; and if we are prepared in loftiness of mind to pass beyond the narrow confines of human weakness, there is a long period of time through which we can roam.
- Seneca
On the Shortness of Life: Life Is Long if You Know How to Use It
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I will not join the rat race because I'm not a rat. And I will not blindly follow a specific faith because I'm not a bat. The only race I'll take part in is for humans being humane. It's called the human race, and sadly it's got the least participants.
- Suzy Kassem
Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem
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Yes, happiness is the proof that time can accommodate eternity
- Byung-Chul Han, The Agony of Eros
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Not bad, not bad at all," Diotallevi said. "To arrive at the truth through the painstaking reconstruction of a false text.
- Umberto Eco
Foucault’s Pendulum
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Courage is the fairest adornment of youth.
- Erich Maria Remarque
Flotsam
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Philosophy is an amazing tissue of really fine thinking and incredible, puerile mistakes. It's like one of those rubber 'bones' they give dogs to chew, damned good for the mind's teeth, but as food - no bloody good at all.
- Olaf Stapledon
Odd John
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Logic is the art of non-contradictory identification. A contradiction cannot exist. No concept man forms is valid unless he integrates it without contradiction into the total sum of his knowledge. To arrive at a contradiction is to confess an error in one’s thinking; to maintain a contradiction is to abdicate one’s mind and to evict oneself from the realm of reality
- Ayn Rand
Atlas Shrugged
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Reason is, and ought only to be the slave of the passions, and can never pretend to any other office than to serve and obey them.
…'Tis not contrary to reason to prefer the destruction of the whole world to the scratching of my finger.
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Many things are mechanical and should remain mechanical. But mechanical thoughts, mechanical feelings—that is what has to be studied and can and should be changed. Mechanical thinking is not worth a penny. You can think about many things mechanically, but you will get nothing from it.
- P.D. Ouspensky
The Fourth Way: An Arrangement by Subject of Verbatim Extracts from the Records of Ouspensky's Meetings in London and New York, 1921-46
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Steve's throat swelled with tension as the intimacy of the moment became more tangible. He moved his eyes from the dark, reflective river, to the dark, reflective pupils in Diane's eyes. They seemed to quiver with tenderness - but then they would grow distant. He found himself continually surprised at the "aliveness" of the person standing just a foot away from him now. She wasn't inanimate: she would flinch if he pinched her, and answer if he asked her. And she was beautiful." -- From "The Grand Unified Story" -- a short story in Zack Love's Stories and Scripts: an Anthology
- Zack Love
Stories and Scripts: an Anthology
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My mind was formed by studying philosophy, Plato and that sort of thing.
- Werner Heisenberg
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Guilt is a feeling that you owe a debt that you're not paying.
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Take a newspaper.
Take some scissors.
Choose from this paper an article of the length you want to make your poem.
Cut out the article.
Next carefully cut out each of the words that makes up this article and put them all in a bag.
Shake gently.
Next take out each cutting one after the other.
Copy conscientiously in the order in which they left the bag.
The poem will resemble you.
And there you are -- an infinitely original author of charming sensibility, even though unappreciated by the vulgar herd.
- Tristan Tzara
Seven Dada Manifestos and Lampisteries
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Part of the maturity of the sciences is an appreciation of which questions are best left to other disciplinary approaches.
- Howard Gardner
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Irony? Irony can never be more than our own personal Maginot line; the drawing of it, for the most part, purely arbitrary.
- Mark Z. Danielewski
House of Leaves
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What comes, is called.
- Ki Longfellow
Flow Down Like Silver
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One word can change your life forever.

I love you
I hate you

Think about it
- Alan Macmillan Orr
The Natural Mind - Waking Up: Volume I
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One must try to make one's life as pleasant as possible. I'm alive and it's not my fault, which means I must somehow go on living the best I can, without bothering anybody, until I die.'
'But what makes you live? With such thoughts, you'll sit without moving, without undertaking anything...'
'Life won't leave one alone as it is.
- Leo Tolstoy
War and Peace
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There is no such thing as educational value in the abstract. The notion that some subjects and methods and that acquaintance with certain facts and truths possess educational value in and of themselves is the reason why traditional education reduced the material of education so largely to a diet of predigested materials.
- John Dewey
Experience and Education
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Nu pot fi eu insumi decat daca ma inalt pana la furie sau cobor pana la descurajare: la nivelul meu obisnuit, ignor faptul ca exist.
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First impressions are rarely worth preserving. Men typically fall short of our expectations.
- Renate Linnenkoper
Exogenesis
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True siblings are bound together by far more essential things than blood, while more times than many blood isn't thicker than water.
- Constantina Maud
Hydranos
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The greatest mystery the universe offers is not life but Size.
- Stephen King
The Gunslinger
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La memoria es como libro en el cual se escribe toda nuestra vida. Algunas veces deseamos cerrarlo y olvidarlo para no recordar todos los escabrosos detalles, y otras veces deseamos abrirlo y observarlo detenidamente, queriendo volver a sentir lo mismo que sentimos en aquel momento.
- Audrey Dry
Sin mirar atrás
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Of all people only those are at leisure who make time for philosophy, only those are really alive. For they not only keep a good watch over their own lifetimes, but they annex every age to theirs. All the years that have passed before them are added to their own. Unless we are very ungrateful, all those distinguished founders of holy creeds were born for us and prepared for us a way of life. By the toil of others we are led into the presence of things which have been brought from darkness into light. We are excluded from no age, but we have access to them all; and if we are prepared in loftiness of mind to pass beyond the narrow confines of human weakness, there is a long period of time through which we can roam.
- Seneca
On the Shortness of Life: Life Is Long if You Know How to Use It
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I will not join the rat race because I'm not a rat. And I will not blindly follow a specific faith because I'm not a bat. The only race I'll take part in is for humans being humane. It's called the human race, and sadly it's got the least participants.
- Suzy Kassem
Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem
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Yes, happiness is the proof that time can accommodate eternity
- Byung-Chul Han, The Agony of Eros
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Not bad, not bad at all," Diotallevi said. "To arrive at the truth through the painstaking reconstruction of a false text.
- Umberto Eco
Foucault’s Pendulum
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Courage is the fairest adornment of youth.
- Erich Maria Remarque
Flotsam
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Philosophy is an amazing tissue of really fine thinking and incredible, puerile mistakes. It's like one of those rubber 'bones' they give dogs to chew, damned good for the mind's teeth, but as food - no bloody good at all.
- Olaf Stapledon
Odd John
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Logic is the art of non-contradictory identification. A contradiction cannot exist. No concept man forms is valid unless he integrates it without contradiction into the total sum of his knowledge. To arrive at a contradiction is to confess an error in one’s thinking; to maintain a contradiction is to abdicate one’s mind and to evict oneself from the realm of reality
- Ayn Rand
Atlas Shrugged
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Reason is, and ought only to be the slave of the passions, and can never pretend to any other office than to serve and obey them.
…'Tis not contrary to reason to prefer the destruction of the whole world to the scratching of my finger.
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Many things are mechanical and should remain mechanical. But mechanical thoughts, mechanical feelings—that is what has to be studied and can and should be changed. Mechanical thinking is not worth a penny. You can think about many things mechanically, but you will get nothing from it.
- P.D. Ouspensky
The Fourth Way: An Arrangement by Subject of Verbatim Extracts from the Records of Ouspensky's Meetings in London and New York, 1921-46
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Steve's throat swelled with tension as the intimacy of the moment became more tangible. He moved his eyes from the dark, reflective river, to the dark, reflective pupils in Diane's eyes. They seemed to quiver with tenderness - but then they would grow distant. He found himself continually surprised at the "aliveness" of the person standing just a foot away from him now. She wasn't inanimate: she would flinch if he pinched her, and answer if he asked her. And she was beautiful." -- From "The Grand Unified Story" -- a short story in Zack Love's Stories and Scripts: an Anthology
- Zack Love
Stories and Scripts: an Anthology
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My mind was formed by studying philosophy, Plato and that sort of thing.
- Werner Heisenberg
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Guilt is a feeling that you owe a debt that you're not paying.
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Take a newspaper.
Take some scissors.
Choose from this paper an article of the length you want to make your poem.
Cut out the article.
Next carefully cut out each of the words that makes up this article and put them all in a bag.
Shake gently.
Next take out each cutting one after the other.
Copy conscientiously in the order in which they left the bag.
The poem will resemble you.
And there you are -- an infinitely original author of charming sensibility, even though unappreciated by the vulgar herd.
- Tristan Tzara
Seven Dada Manifestos and Lampisteries
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Part of the maturity of the sciences is an appreciation of which questions are best left to other disciplinary approaches.
- Howard Gardner
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Irony? Irony can never be more than our own personal Maginot line; the drawing of it, for the most part, purely arbitrary.
- Mark Z. Danielewski
House of Leaves
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
What comes, is called.
- Ki Longfellow
Flow Down Like Silver
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
One word can change your life forever.

I love you
I hate you

Think about it
- Alan Macmillan Orr
The Natural Mind - Waking Up: Volume I
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
One must try to make one's life as pleasant as possible. I'm alive and it's not my fault, which means I must somehow go on living the best I can, without bothering anybody, until I die.'
'But what makes you live? With such thoughts, you'll sit without moving, without undertaking anything...'
'Life won't leave one alone as it is.
- Leo Tolstoy
War and Peace
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
There is no such thing as educational value in the abstract. The notion that some subjects and methods and that acquaintance with certain facts and truths possess educational value in and of themselves is the reason why traditional education reduced the material of education so largely to a diet of predigested materials.
- John Dewey
Experience and Education
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Nu pot fi eu insumi decat daca ma inalt pana la furie sau cobor pana la descurajare: la nivelul meu obisnuit, ignor faptul ca exist.
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
First impressions are rarely worth preserving. Men typically fall short of our expectations.
- Renate Linnenkoper
Exogenesis
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
True siblings are bound together by far more essential things than blood, while more times than many blood isn't thicker than water.
- Constantina Maud
Hydranos
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
The greatest mystery the universe offers is not life but Size.
- Stephen King
The Gunslinger
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
La memoria es como libro en el cual se escribe toda nuestra vida. Algunas veces deseamos cerrarlo y olvidarlo para no recordar todos los escabrosos detalles, y otras veces deseamos abrirlo y observarlo detenidamente, queriendo volver a sentir lo mismo que sentimos en aquel momento.
- Audrey Dry
Sin mirar atrás
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Of all people only those are at leisure who make time for philosophy, only those are really alive. For they not only keep a good watch over their own lifetimes, but they annex every age to theirs. All the years that have passed before them are added to their own. Unless we are very ungrateful, all those distinguished founders of holy creeds were born for us and prepared for us a way of life. By the toil of others we are led into the presence of things which have been brought from darkness into light. We are excluded from no age, but we have access to them all; and if we are prepared in loftiness of mind to pass beyond the narrow confines of human weakness, there is a long period of time through which we can roam.
- Seneca
On the Shortness of Life: Life Is Long if You Know How to Use It
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I will not join the rat race because I'm not a rat. And I will not blindly follow a specific faith because I'm not a bat. The only race I'll take part in is for humans being humane. It's called the human race, and sadly it's got the least participants.
- Suzy Kassem
Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem
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Yes, happiness is the proof that time can accommodate eternity
- Byung-Chul Han, The Agony of Eros
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Not bad, not bad at all," Diotallevi said. "To arrive at the truth through the painstaking reconstruction of a false text.
- Umberto Eco
Foucault’s Pendulum
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Courage is the fairest adornment of youth.
- Erich Maria Remarque
Flotsam
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Philosophy is an amazing tissue of really fine thinking and incredible, puerile mistakes. It's like one of those rubber 'bones' they give dogs to chew, damned good for the mind's teeth, but as food - no bloody good at all.
- Olaf Stapledon
Odd John
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Logic is the art of non-contradictory identification. A contradiction cannot exist. No concept man forms is valid unless he integrates it without contradiction into the total sum of his knowledge. To arrive at a contradiction is to confess an error in one’s thinking; to maintain a contradiction is to abdicate one’s mind and to evict oneself from the realm of reality
- Ayn Rand
Atlas Shrugged
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