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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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I am the man who loves his life. I am the man who does not sacrifice his love or his values.
- Ayn Rand
Atlas Shrugged
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I have never seen or heard of such a fish. But I must kill him. I am glad we do not have to try to kill the stars.” Imagine if each day a man must try to kill the moon, he thought. The moon runs away. . . . Then he was sorry for the great fish that had nothing to eat and his determination to kill him never relaxed in his sorrow for him. . . . There is no one worthy of eating him from the manner of his behavior and his great dignity. I do not understand these things, he thought. But it is good that we do not have to try to kill the sun or the moon or the stars. It is enough to live on the sea and kill our true brothers.
- Ernest Hemingway
The Old Man and the Sea
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From it genesis twelve hundred years ago to today, Islamic philosophy (al-hikmah; al-falsafah) has been one of the major intellectual traditions within the Islamic world, and it has influenced and been influenced by many other intellectual perspectives, including Scholastic theology (kalam) and doctrinal Sufism (al-ma'rifah or al-tasawwuf al-'ilmi) and theoretical gnosis ('irfan-i nazari).
- Seyyed Hossein Nasr
Islamic Philosophy from its Origin to the Present: Philosophy in the Land of Prophecy
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...convinced that in trying to please all, he had pleased none, and had lost his ass into the bargain.
- Aesop
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Don’t dwell too much on the past. The lessons are useful for the present and a preparation for the future. Move on!
- Lailah Gifty Akita
Pearls of Wisdom: Great mind
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For wicked people to do evil requires money, and good people superstition. Combining these elements and we get organized religion, but to achieve the worst of all evil conflate politics to the compound and the tragedies are endless.
- Sean S Kamali
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They are now informing me that not only are they better than the powerful, the masters of the world whose spittle they have to lick (not from fear, not at all from fear! but because God orders them to honour those in authority) – not only are they better, but they have a “better time”, or at least will have a better time one day. But enough! enough! I can’t bear it any longer. Bad air! Bad air! This workshop where ideals are fabricated – it seems to me just to stink of lies.
- Nietzsche
On the Genealogy of Morality
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Apocalypse is a frame of mind." [Nicodemus] said then. "A belief. A surrender to inevitability. It is a despair for the future. It is the death of hope.
- Jim Butcher
Death Masks
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The command of our language is crucial to focusing our thoughts and communicating them with precision to others.
- Felix Alba-Juez
Galloping with Light - Einstein, Relativity, and Folklore
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I believe that the imagination is the passport we create to take us into the real world. I believe the imagination is another phrase for what is most uniquely us.
- John Guare
Six Degrees of Separation: A Play
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He did not wish to be divine. If there had never been a God, the emperor thought, it might have been easier to work out what goodness was. This business of worship, of the abnegation of self in the face of the Almighty, was a distraction, a false trail. Wherever goodness lay, it did not lie in ritual, unthinking obeisance before a deity but rather, perhaps, in the slow, clumsy, error-strewn working out of an individual or collective path.
- Salman Rushdie
The Enchantress of Florence
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…is postmodernity the pastime of an old man who scrounges in the garbage-heap of finality looking for leftovers, who brandishes unconsciousnesses, lapses, limits, confines, goulags, parataxes, non-senses, or paradoxes, and who turns this into the glory of his novelty, into his promise of change?
- Jean-François Lyotard
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They [Nazi captors]had more liberty, more options to choose from in their environment; but he [Viktor Frankl] had more freedom, more internal power to exercise his options.
- Stephen R. Covey
The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Powerful Lessons in Personal Change
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If you want to bring the world closer to peace, be a peacemaker by creating peace whenever you can. If you find yourself engaged in an argument that only stirs anger in the heart, quickly make peace and carry on.
- Suzy Kassem
Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem
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love as a passion—it is our European specialty—must absolutely be of noble origin; as is well known, its invention is due to the Provencal poet-cavaliers, those brilliant, ingenious men of the "gai saber," to whom Europe owes so much, and almost owes itself.
- Friedrich Nietzsche
Beyond Good and Evil
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Almost all arguments for skepticism make reference to seemingly ridiculous possibilities—we are being deceived by an evil demon, life is just a dream, we are brains in vats. You might propose psychoanalysis, rather than philosophical reflection, for anyone who worries about these possibilities.
- Richard Feldman
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Good authors worry about genres great authors don't.
- Frank Gaspar
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The easiest way to be reborn is to live and feel life everyday
- Munia Khan
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Expressing doubt is how we begin a journey to discover essential truths.
- Kilroy J. Oldster
Dead Toad Scrolls
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Many waters cannot quench love, neither can floods drown it. What then kills love? Only this: Neglect.
- Jeanette Winterson
Written on the Body
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Every life is different because you passed this way and touched history.
- Barbara Kingsolver
The Poisonwood Bible
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A lie never grows old.
- Sophocles
White Lies
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Freedom is an absolute state, there is no such thing as being half-free.
- Daniel Delgado F
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Ignore a person kill the person.
- M.Azeem Talib
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I am the man who loves his life. I am the man who does not sacrifice his love or his values.
- Ayn Rand
Atlas Shrugged
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I have never seen or heard of such a fish. But I must kill him. I am glad we do not have to try to kill the stars.” Imagine if each day a man must try to kill the moon, he thought. The moon runs away. . . . Then he was sorry for the great fish that had nothing to eat and his determination to kill him never relaxed in his sorrow for him. . . . There is no one worthy of eating him from the manner of his behavior and his great dignity. I do not understand these things, he thought. But it is good that we do not have to try to kill the sun or the moon or the stars. It is enough to live on the sea and kill our true brothers.
- Ernest Hemingway
The Old Man and the Sea
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
From it genesis twelve hundred years ago to today, Islamic philosophy (al-hikmah; al-falsafah) has been one of the major intellectual traditions within the Islamic world, and it has influenced and been influenced by many other intellectual perspectives, including Scholastic theology (kalam) and doctrinal Sufism (al-ma'rifah or al-tasawwuf al-'ilmi) and theoretical gnosis ('irfan-i nazari).
- Seyyed Hossein Nasr
Islamic Philosophy from its Origin to the Present: Philosophy in the Land of Prophecy
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...convinced that in trying to please all, he had pleased none, and had lost his ass into the bargain.
- Aesop
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Don’t dwell too much on the past. The lessons are useful for the present and a preparation for the future. Move on!
- Lailah Gifty Akita
Pearls of Wisdom: Great mind
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For wicked people to do evil requires money, and good people superstition. Combining these elements and we get organized religion, but to achieve the worst of all evil conflate politics to the compound and the tragedies are endless.
- Sean S Kamali
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
They are now informing me that not only are they better than the powerful, the masters of the world whose spittle they have to lick (not from fear, not at all from fear! but because God orders them to honour those in authority) – not only are they better, but they have a “better time”, or at least will have a better time one day. But enough! enough! I can’t bear it any longer. Bad air! Bad air! This workshop where ideals are fabricated – it seems to me just to stink of lies.
- Nietzsche
On the Genealogy of Morality
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Apocalypse is a frame of mind." [Nicodemus] said then. "A belief. A surrender to inevitability. It is a despair for the future. It is the death of hope.
- Jim Butcher
Death Masks
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The command of our language is crucial to focusing our thoughts and communicating them with precision to others.
- Felix Alba-Juez
Galloping with Light - Einstein, Relativity, and Folklore
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I believe that the imagination is the passport we create to take us into the real world. I believe the imagination is another phrase for what is most uniquely us.
- John Guare
Six Degrees of Separation: A Play
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He did not wish to be divine. If there had never been a God, the emperor thought, it might have been easier to work out what goodness was. This business of worship, of the abnegation of self in the face of the Almighty, was a distraction, a false trail. Wherever goodness lay, it did not lie in ritual, unthinking obeisance before a deity but rather, perhaps, in the slow, clumsy, error-strewn working out of an individual or collective path.
- Salman Rushdie
The Enchantress of Florence
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…is postmodernity the pastime of an old man who scrounges in the garbage-heap of finality looking for leftovers, who brandishes unconsciousnesses, lapses, limits, confines, goulags, parataxes, non-senses, or paradoxes, and who turns this into the glory of his novelty, into his promise of change?
- Jean-François Lyotard
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They [Nazi captors]had more liberty, more options to choose from in their environment; but he [Viktor Frankl] had more freedom, more internal power to exercise his options.
- Stephen R. Covey
The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Powerful Lessons in Personal Change
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If you want to bring the world closer to peace, be a peacemaker by creating peace whenever you can. If you find yourself engaged in an argument that only stirs anger in the heart, quickly make peace and carry on.
- Suzy Kassem
Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem
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love as a passion—it is our European specialty—must absolutely be of noble origin; as is well known, its invention is due to the Provencal poet-cavaliers, those brilliant, ingenious men of the "gai saber," to whom Europe owes so much, and almost owes itself.
- Friedrich Nietzsche
Beyond Good and Evil
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Almost all arguments for skepticism make reference to seemingly ridiculous possibilities—we are being deceived by an evil demon, life is just a dream, we are brains in vats. You might propose psychoanalysis, rather than philosophical reflection, for anyone who worries about these possibilities.
- Richard Feldman
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Good authors worry about genres great authors don't.
- Frank Gaspar
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
The easiest way to be reborn is to live and feel life everyday
- Munia Khan
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Expressing doubt is how we begin a journey to discover essential truths.
- Kilroy J. Oldster
Dead Toad Scrolls
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Many waters cannot quench love, neither can floods drown it. What then kills love? Only this: Neglect.
- Jeanette Winterson
Written on the Body
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Every life is different because you passed this way and touched history.
- Barbara Kingsolver
The Poisonwood Bible
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
A lie never grows old.
- Sophocles
White Lies
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Freedom is an absolute state, there is no such thing as being half-free.
- Daniel Delgado F
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Ignore a person kill the person.
- M.Azeem Talib
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I am the man who loves his life. I am the man who does not sacrifice his love or his values.
- Ayn Rand
Atlas Shrugged
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
I have never seen or heard of such a fish. But I must kill him. I am glad we do not have to try to kill the stars.” Imagine if each day a man must try to kill the moon, he thought. The moon runs away. . . . Then he was sorry for the great fish that had nothing to eat and his determination to kill him never relaxed in his sorrow for him. . . . There is no one worthy of eating him from the manner of his behavior and his great dignity. I do not understand these things, he thought. But it is good that we do not have to try to kill the sun or the moon or the stars. It is enough to live on the sea and kill our true brothers.
- Ernest Hemingway
The Old Man and the Sea
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
From it genesis twelve hundred years ago to today, Islamic philosophy (al-hikmah; al-falsafah) has been one of the major intellectual traditions within the Islamic world, and it has influenced and been influenced by many other intellectual perspectives, including Scholastic theology (kalam) and doctrinal Sufism (al-ma'rifah or al-tasawwuf al-'ilmi) and theoretical gnosis ('irfan-i nazari).
- Seyyed Hossein Nasr
Islamic Philosophy from its Origin to the Present: Philosophy in the Land of Prophecy
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
...convinced that in trying to please all, he had pleased none, and had lost his ass into the bargain.
- Aesop
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Don’t dwell too much on the past. The lessons are useful for the present and a preparation for the future. Move on!
- Lailah Gifty Akita
Pearls of Wisdom: Great mind
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
For wicked people to do evil requires money, and good people superstition. Combining these elements and we get organized religion, but to achieve the worst of all evil conflate politics to the compound and the tragedies are endless.
- Sean S Kamali
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
They are now informing me that not only are they better than the powerful, the masters of the world whose spittle they have to lick (not from fear, not at all from fear! but because God orders them to honour those in authority) – not only are they better, but they have a “better time”, or at least will have a better time one day. But enough! enough! I can’t bear it any longer. Bad air! Bad air! This workshop where ideals are fabricated – it seems to me just to stink of lies.
- Nietzsche
On the Genealogy of Morality
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Apocalypse is a frame of mind." [Nicodemus] said then. "A belief. A surrender to inevitability. It is a despair for the future. It is the death of hope.
- Jim Butcher
Death Masks
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
The command of our language is crucial to focusing our thoughts and communicating them with precision to others.
- Felix Alba-Juez
Galloping with Light - Einstein, Relativity, and Folklore
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
I believe that the imagination is the passport we create to take us into the real world. I believe the imagination is another phrase for what is most uniquely us.
- John Guare
Six Degrees of Separation: A Play
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
He did not wish to be divine. If there had never been a God, the emperor thought, it might have been easier to work out what goodness was. This business of worship, of the abnegation of self in the face of the Almighty, was a distraction, a false trail. Wherever goodness lay, it did not lie in ritual, unthinking obeisance before a deity but rather, perhaps, in the slow, clumsy, error-strewn working out of an individual or collective path.
- Salman Rushdie
The Enchantress of Florence
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
…is postmodernity the pastime of an old man who scrounges in the garbage-heap of finality looking for leftovers, who brandishes unconsciousnesses, lapses, limits, confines, goulags, parataxes, non-senses, or paradoxes, and who turns this into the glory of his novelty, into his promise of change?
- Jean-François Lyotard
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
They [Nazi captors]had more liberty, more options to choose from in their environment; but he [Viktor Frankl] had more freedom, more internal power to exercise his options.
- Stephen R. Covey
The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Powerful Lessons in Personal Change
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
If you want to bring the world closer to peace, be a peacemaker by creating peace whenever you can. If you find yourself engaged in an argument that only stirs anger in the heart, quickly make peace and carry on.
- Suzy Kassem
Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
love as a passion—it is our European specialty—must absolutely be of noble origin; as is well known, its invention is due to the Provencal poet-cavaliers, those brilliant, ingenious men of the "gai saber," to whom Europe owes so much, and almost owes itself.
- Friedrich Nietzsche
Beyond Good and Evil
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Almost all arguments for skepticism make reference to seemingly ridiculous possibilities—we are being deceived by an evil demon, life is just a dream, we are brains in vats. You might propose psychoanalysis, rather than philosophical reflection, for anyone who worries about these possibilities.
- Richard Feldman
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Good authors worry about genres great authors don't.
- Frank Gaspar
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
The easiest way to be reborn is to live and feel life everyday
- Munia Khan
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Expressing doubt is how we begin a journey to discover essential truths.
- Kilroy J. Oldster
Dead Toad Scrolls
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Many waters cannot quench love, neither can floods drown it. What then kills love? Only this: Neglect.
- Jeanette Winterson
Written on the Body
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Every life is different because you passed this way and touched history.
- Barbara Kingsolver
The Poisonwood Bible
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
A lie never grows old.
- Sophocles
White Lies
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Freedom is an absolute state, there is no such thing as being half-free.
- Daniel Delgado F
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Ignore a person kill the person.
- M.Azeem Talib
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
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