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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’s ever been the way of the man of science or philosophy. Most folks stay in the dark and then complain they can’t see nothing.” – Snipes (185)
- Ron Rash
Serena
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The vivid force of his mind prevailed, and he fared forth far beyond the flaming ramparts of the heavens and traversed the boundless universe in thought and mind.
- Lucretius
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Philosophy . . .consists chiefly in suggesting unintelligible answers to insoluble problems.
- Henry Adams
The Education of Henry Adams
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Whether a belief is considered to be a delusion or not depends partly upon the intensity with which it is defended, and partly upon the numbers of people subscribing to it.
- Anthony Storr
Feet of Clay: A Study of Gurus
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Were prayers of murderers, when fighting on the “right side” of the war, ever heard—let alone answered?
- Kristina McMorris
Letters from Home
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For he who can foresee with his mind is by nature intended to be lord and master; and he who can work only with his body is by nature a slave.

The slave is to the master what the body is to the mind.
- Will Durant
The Story of Philosophy: The Lives and Opinions of the World's Greatest Philosophers
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Nessuno, mai, riesce a dare l'esatta misura di ciò che pensa, di ciò che soffre, della necessità che lo incalza, e la parola umana è spesso come un pentolino di latta su cui andiamo battendo melodie da far ballare gli orsi mentre vorremmo intenerire le stelle.
- Gustave Flaubert
Madame Bovary
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Summer is for surrendering; winter is for wondering.
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I consider a dream like I consider a shadow,” answered Caeiro, with his usual divine, unexpected promptitude. “A shadow is real, but it’s less real than a rock. A dream is real — if it weren’t, it wouldn’t be a dream — but less real than a thing. That’s what being real is like.
- Álvaro de Campos
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In some remote corner of the universe, poured out and glittering in innumerable solar systems, there once was a star on which clever animals invented knowledge. That was the haughtiest and most mendacious minute of "world history"- yet only a minute. After nature had drawn a few breaths the star grew cold, and the clever animals had to die.
- Friedrich Nietzsche
On Truth and Untruth: Selected Writings
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Such Excessive Preoccupation With The Faults Of Others Only Manages To Bring The Spotlight To Shine Bright On Whatever It Is You May Have Hiding Behind All Your Self Perceived Glory.
- Marcie Leeper
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We co-create our reality with others in unseen ways.
- Doug Dillon
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Why is it so difficult for us to think in relative terms? Well, for the good reason that human nature loves absoluteness, and erroneously considers it as a state of higher knowledge.
- Felix Alba-Juez
Who was Right: Ptolemy or Copernicus?
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În clipa când ți se impune să nu te gândești la un lucru, te vei gândi doar la el, obsesiv. Interdicția devine obligație.
- Jean-Claude Carrière
Nu sperați că veți scăpa de cărți
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One of the professors told me last week that he feels bad teaching with the way the economy is now. ‘What’s the point?’ he said. ‘Kids aren’t getting jobs.’ You never hear faculty talk that way. He did.
- Daniel Amory
Minor Snobs
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Time (again, Time) like the soul, wears many faces, many bodies and climates and attitudes. The past is one face, the present a second and the future yet another.
- Aberjhani
Elemental: The Power of Illuminated Love
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It is suicide to be abroad. But what it is to be at home, ... what it is to be at home? A lingering dissolution.
- Samuel Beckett
All That Fall and Other Plays for Radio and Screen
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Wisdom is seeing something in a non-habitual manner.
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This is the paradox of public space: even if everyone knows an unpleasant fact, saying it in public changes everything. One of the first measures taken by the new Bolshevik government in 1918 was to make public the entire corpus of tsarist secret diplomacy, all the secret agreements, the secret clauses of public agreements etc. There too the target was the entire functioning of the state apparatuses of power.
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Man is not born to solve the problem of the universe, but to find out what he has to do; and to restrain himself within the limits of his comprehension.
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If the moment is everthing, then everything is time.
- Benny Bellamacina
The King of Rhyme
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Genius is measured not by static volume but by kinetic vision.
- Rich DiSilvio
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There the Lord of kings holds His scepter, governing the reigns of the world. With sure control He drives the swift chariot, the shining judge of all things.
If the road which you have forgotten, but now search for, brings you here, you will cry out: 'This I remember, this is my own country, here I was born and here I shall hold my place.
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...the truth of what one says lies in what one does.
- Bernhard Schlink
The Reader
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It’s ever been the way of the man of science or philosophy. Most folks stay in the dark and then complain they can’t see nothing.” – Snipes (185)
- Ron Rash
Serena
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The vivid force of his mind prevailed, and he fared forth far beyond the flaming ramparts of the heavens and traversed the boundless universe in thought and mind.
- Lucretius
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Philosophy . . .consists chiefly in suggesting unintelligible answers to insoluble problems.
- Henry Adams
The Education of Henry Adams
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Whether a belief is considered to be a delusion or not depends partly upon the intensity with which it is defended, and partly upon the numbers of people subscribing to it.
- Anthony Storr
Feet of Clay: A Study of Gurus
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Were prayers of murderers, when fighting on the “right side” of the war, ever heard—let alone answered?
- Kristina McMorris
Letters from Home
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For he who can foresee with his mind is by nature intended to be lord and master; and he who can work only with his body is by nature a slave.

The slave is to the master what the body is to the mind.
- Will Durant
The Story of Philosophy: The Lives and Opinions of the World's Greatest Philosophers
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Nessuno, mai, riesce a dare l'esatta misura di ciò che pensa, di ciò che soffre, della necessità che lo incalza, e la parola umana è spesso come un pentolino di latta su cui andiamo battendo melodie da far ballare gli orsi mentre vorremmo intenerire le stelle.
- Gustave Flaubert
Madame Bovary
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Summer is for surrendering; winter is for wondering.
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I consider a dream like I consider a shadow,” answered Caeiro, with his usual divine, unexpected promptitude. “A shadow is real, but it’s less real than a rock. A dream is real — if it weren’t, it wouldn’t be a dream — but less real than a thing. That’s what being real is like.
- Álvaro de Campos
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In some remote corner of the universe, poured out and glittering in innumerable solar systems, there once was a star on which clever animals invented knowledge. That was the haughtiest and most mendacious minute of "world history"- yet only a minute. After nature had drawn a few breaths the star grew cold, and the clever animals had to die.
- Friedrich Nietzsche
On Truth and Untruth: Selected Writings
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Such Excessive Preoccupation With The Faults Of Others Only Manages To Bring The Spotlight To Shine Bright On Whatever It Is You May Have Hiding Behind All Your Self Perceived Glory.
- Marcie Leeper
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We co-create our reality with others in unseen ways.
- Doug Dillon
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Why is it so difficult for us to think in relative terms? Well, for the good reason that human nature loves absoluteness, and erroneously considers it as a state of higher knowledge.
- Felix Alba-Juez
Who was Right: Ptolemy or Copernicus?
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În clipa când ți se impune să nu te gândești la un lucru, te vei gândi doar la el, obsesiv. Interdicția devine obligație.
- Jean-Claude Carrière
Nu sperați că veți scăpa de cărți
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One of the professors told me last week that he feels bad teaching with the way the economy is now. ‘What’s the point?’ he said. ‘Kids aren’t getting jobs.’ You never hear faculty talk that way. He did.
- Daniel Amory
Minor Snobs
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Time (again, Time) like the soul, wears many faces, many bodies and climates and attitudes. The past is one face, the present a second and the future yet another.
- Aberjhani
Elemental: The Power of Illuminated Love
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It is suicide to be abroad. But what it is to be at home, ... what it is to be at home? A lingering dissolution.
- Samuel Beckett
All That Fall and Other Plays for Radio and Screen
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Wisdom is seeing something in a non-habitual manner.
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This is the paradox of public space: even if everyone knows an unpleasant fact, saying it in public changes everything. One of the first measures taken by the new Bolshevik government in 1918 was to make public the entire corpus of tsarist secret diplomacy, all the secret agreements, the secret clauses of public agreements etc. There too the target was the entire functioning of the state apparatuses of power.
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Man is not born to solve the problem of the universe, but to find out what he has to do; and to restrain himself within the limits of his comprehension.
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
If the moment is everthing, then everything is time.
- Benny Bellamacina
The King of Rhyme
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Genius is measured not by static volume but by kinetic vision.
- Rich DiSilvio
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There the Lord of kings holds His scepter, governing the reigns of the world. With sure control He drives the swift chariot, the shining judge of all things.
If the road which you have forgotten, but now search for, brings you here, you will cry out: 'This I remember, this is my own country, here I was born and here I shall hold my place.
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...the truth of what one says lies in what one does.
- Bernhard Schlink
The Reader
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It’s ever been the way of the man of science or philosophy. Most folks stay in the dark and then complain they can’t see nothing.” – Snipes (185)
- Ron Rash
Serena
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
The vivid force of his mind prevailed, and he fared forth far beyond the flaming ramparts of the heavens and traversed the boundless universe in thought and mind.
- Lucretius
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Philosophy . . .consists chiefly in suggesting unintelligible answers to insoluble problems.
- Henry Adams
The Education of Henry Adams
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Whether a belief is considered to be a delusion or not depends partly upon the intensity with which it is defended, and partly upon the numbers of people subscribing to it.
- Anthony Storr
Feet of Clay: A Study of Gurus
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Were prayers of murderers, when fighting on the “right side” of the war, ever heard—let alone answered?
- Kristina McMorris
Letters from Home
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For he who can foresee with his mind is by nature intended to be lord and master; and he who can work only with his body is by nature a slave.

The slave is to the master what the body is to the mind.
- Will Durant
The Story of Philosophy: The Lives and Opinions of the World's Greatest Philosophers
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Nessuno, mai, riesce a dare l'esatta misura di ciò che pensa, di ciò che soffre, della necessità che lo incalza, e la parola umana è spesso come un pentolino di latta su cui andiamo battendo melodie da far ballare gli orsi mentre vorremmo intenerire le stelle.
- Gustave Flaubert
Madame Bovary
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Summer is for surrendering; winter is for wondering.
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
I consider a dream like I consider a shadow,” answered Caeiro, with his usual divine, unexpected promptitude. “A shadow is real, but it’s less real than a rock. A dream is real — if it weren’t, it wouldn’t be a dream — but less real than a thing. That’s what being real is like.
- Álvaro de Campos
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
In some remote corner of the universe, poured out and glittering in innumerable solar systems, there once was a star on which clever animals invented knowledge. That was the haughtiest and most mendacious minute of "world history"- yet only a minute. After nature had drawn a few breaths the star grew cold, and the clever animals had to die.
- Friedrich Nietzsche
On Truth and Untruth: Selected Writings
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Such Excessive Preoccupation With The Faults Of Others Only Manages To Bring The Spotlight To Shine Bright On Whatever It Is You May Have Hiding Behind All Your Self Perceived Glory.
- Marcie Leeper
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
We co-create our reality with others in unseen ways.
- Doug Dillon
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Why is it so difficult for us to think in relative terms? Well, for the good reason that human nature loves absoluteness, and erroneously considers it as a state of higher knowledge.
- Felix Alba-Juez
Who was Right: Ptolemy or Copernicus?
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
În clipa când ți se impune să nu te gândești la un lucru, te vei gândi doar la el, obsesiv. Interdicția devine obligație.
- Jean-Claude Carrière
Nu sperați că veți scăpa de cărți
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
One of the professors told me last week that he feels bad teaching with the way the economy is now. ‘What’s the point?’ he said. ‘Kids aren’t getting jobs.’ You never hear faculty talk that way. He did.
- Daniel Amory
Minor Snobs
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Time (again, Time) like the soul, wears many faces, many bodies and climates and attitudes. The past is one face, the present a second and the future yet another.
- Aberjhani
Elemental: The Power of Illuminated Love
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
It is suicide to be abroad. But what it is to be at home, ... what it is to be at home? A lingering dissolution.
- Samuel Beckett
All That Fall and Other Plays for Radio and Screen
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Wisdom is seeing something in a non-habitual manner.
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
This is the paradox of public space: even if everyone knows an unpleasant fact, saying it in public changes everything. One of the first measures taken by the new Bolshevik government in 1918 was to make public the entire corpus of tsarist secret diplomacy, all the secret agreements, the secret clauses of public agreements etc. There too the target was the entire functioning of the state apparatuses of power.
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Man is not born to solve the problem of the universe, but to find out what he has to do; and to restrain himself within the limits of his comprehension.
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
If the moment is everthing, then everything is time.
- Benny Bellamacina
The King of Rhyme
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Genius is measured not by static volume but by kinetic vision.
- Rich DiSilvio
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
There the Lord of kings holds His scepter, governing the reigns of the world. With sure control He drives the swift chariot, the shining judge of all things.
If the road which you have forgotten, but now search for, brings you here, you will cry out: 'This I remember, this is my own country, here I was born and here I shall hold my place.
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
...the truth of what one says lies in what one does.
- Bernhard Schlink
The Reader
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