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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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You would not search the woodside gay
To pick a springtime flower
When all the shuddering country groans
Before the North Wind's power.
Nor would you seek with greedy hand
To pluck your vines in May;
The wine god gives his gift of grapes
When Autumn's on the way.
For God has fixed the season's tasks
And each receives its own:
No power is free to disarray
The order God has shown.
- Boethius
The Consolation of Philosophy
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We awaken by asking the right questions. We awaken when we see knowledge being spread that goes against our own personal experiences. We awaken when we see popular opinion being wrong but accepted as being right, and what is right being pushed as being wrong. We awaken by seeking answers in corners that are not popular. And we awaken by turning on the light inside when everything outside feels dark.
- Suzy Kassem
Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem
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Wanneer er rondom niets te verwachten is, keer je naar binnen.
- Arthur Japin
De zwarte met het witte hart
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A mother gives you a life, a mother-in-law gives you her life.
- Amit Kalantri
Wealth of Words
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Aestheticism and radicalism must lead us to jettison reason, and to replace it by a desperate hope for political miracles. This irrational attitude which springs from intoxication with dreams of a beautiful world is what I call Romanticism. It may seek its heavenly city in the past or in the future; it may preach ‘back to nature’ or ‘forward to a world of love and beauty’; but its appeal is always to our emotions rather than to reason. Even with the best intentions of making heaven on earth it only succeeds in making it a hell – that hell which man alone prepares for his fellow-men.
- Karl Popper
The Open Society and its Enemies
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To believe in nothing is as ridiculous as to believe in everything. Reason and factual evidence may convert a belief into knowledge.
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When we say two bodies 'touch', what we mean (without knowing it) is that both electromagnetic fields are interacting to avoid physical interpenetration and ... that happens well before subatomic particles touch!
- Felix Alba-Juez
Galloping with Sound - The Grand Cosmic Conspiracy
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Truth is not as pompous and romantic as myth ... but it has the immeasurable value of being the Truth.
- Felix Alba-Juez
E=mc^2: The Most Famous Equation in History... and its Folklore
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In the process of burning out these confusions, we discover enlightenment. If the process were otherwise, the awakened state of mind would be a product dependent upon cause and effect and therefore liable to dissolution. Anything which is created must, sooner or later, die. If enlightenment were created in such a way, there would always be a possibility of ego reasserting itself, causing a return to the confused state. Enlightenment is permanent because we have not produced it; we have merely discovered it.
- Chögyam Trungpa
Cutting Through Spiritual Materialism
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Lifes like a painters palette, just when you've got everything worked out the colours change
- Benny Bellamacina
Piddly Poems for Children: Volume 1
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What a silly thing love is!' said the student as he walked away. 'It is not half as useful as logic, for it does not prove anything, and it is always telling one of things that are not going to happen, and making one believe things that are not true. In fact, it is quite unpractical, and, as in this age to be practical is everything, I shall go back to philosophy and study metaphysics.'
So he returned to his room and pulled out a great dusty book, and began to read.
- Oscar Wilde
The Happy Prince and Other Tales
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The delight we take in our senses is an implicit desire to know the ultimate reason for things, the highest cause. The desire for wisdom that philosophy etymologically is is a desire for the highest or divine causes. Philosophy culminates in theology. All other knowledge contains the seeds of contemplation of the divine.
- Josef Pieper
Happiness and Contemplation
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It seemed to a number of philosophers of language, myself included, that we should attempt to achieve a unification of Chomsky's syntax, with the results of the researches that were going on in semantics and pragmatics. I believe that this effort has proven to be a failure. Though Chomsky did indeed revolutionize the subject of linguistics, it is not at all clear, at the end the century, what the solid results of this revolution are. As far as I can tell there is not a single rule of syntax that all, or even most, competent linguists are prepared to agree is a rule.
- John Searle
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The sun symbolizes the Divine intelligence; the empty vastness of space symbolizes the Divine All-Possibility and also the Divine immutability; a bird symbolizes the soul; a tree symbolizes the grades of being; and water symbolizes knowledge and rain revelation.
- Osman Bakar
Tawhid and Science
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....I am inclined to think that these muscles and bones of mine would have gone off long ago to Megara or Boeotia—by the dog they would, if they had been moved only by their own idea of what was best.

(tr Jowett)
- Plato
Phaedo
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Conservatism is the antidote to tyranny. It's the only one. It's based on thousands of years of human experience. There is nothing narrow about the conservative philosophy. It's a liberating philosophy. It is a magnificent philosophy. It is a philosophy for the ages, for all times.
- Mark R. Levin
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Buffett does enjoy being a billionaire, but in offbeat ways. As he put it, though money cannot change your health or how many people love you, it lets you be in 'more interesting environments.
- Roger Lowenstein
Buffett: The Making of an American Capitalist
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Before man ventures into daydreams about his futuristic society, he should
first immerse himself in the nothingness of his being, and finally restore life to what it is all about: a working hypothesis.
- Tomislav Sunic
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This is precisely how someone speaks who imagines that he is the world's divinely appointed ruler: 'I will not LET them starve. I will not LET the drought come. I will not LET the river flood.
- Daniel Quinn
Ishmael: An Adventure of the Mind and Spirit
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Distrust of grammar is the first requisite for philosophizing.
- Ludwig Wittgenstein
Notes on Logic by Ludwig Wittgenstein in Danish Language Translated by Noah Morten
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We are good to others only because we think that that is, or will be, good for us.
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I feel tired. Or reckless. Or maybe brave.
- Lamya H.
Hijab Butch Blues
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Truth can be intuited even when it cannot be articulated in language. Such intuition is rooted in our broader obfuscated mind, which can apprehend - in symbolic ways - aspects of reality beyond the grasp of our self-reflective thoughts and perceptions.
- Bernardo Kastrup
More Than Allegory: On Religious Myth, Truth And Belief
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Communication among citizens depends upon equality. At the same time, equality cannot be achieved without facts.
- Timothy Snyder
The Road to Unfreedom: Russia, Europe, America
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You would not search the woodside gay
To pick a springtime flower
When all the shuddering country groans
Before the North Wind's power.
Nor would you seek with greedy hand
To pluck your vines in May;
The wine god gives his gift of grapes
When Autumn's on the way.
For God has fixed the season's tasks
And each receives its own:
No power is free to disarray
The order God has shown.
- Boethius
The Consolation of Philosophy
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
We awaken by asking the right questions. We awaken when we see knowledge being spread that goes against our own personal experiences. We awaken when we see popular opinion being wrong but accepted as being right, and what is right being pushed as being wrong. We awaken by seeking answers in corners that are not popular. And we awaken by turning on the light inside when everything outside feels dark.
- Suzy Kassem
Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Wanneer er rondom niets te verwachten is, keer je naar binnen.
- Arthur Japin
De zwarte met het witte hart
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
A mother gives you a life, a mother-in-law gives you her life.
- Amit Kalantri
Wealth of Words
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Aestheticism and radicalism must lead us to jettison reason, and to replace it by a desperate hope for political miracles. This irrational attitude which springs from intoxication with dreams of a beautiful world is what I call Romanticism. It may seek its heavenly city in the past or in the future; it may preach ‘back to nature’ or ‘forward to a world of love and beauty’; but its appeal is always to our emotions rather than to reason. Even with the best intentions of making heaven on earth it only succeeds in making it a hell – that hell which man alone prepares for his fellow-men.
- Karl Popper
The Open Society and its Enemies
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
To believe in nothing is as ridiculous as to believe in everything. Reason and factual evidence may convert a belief into knowledge.
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
When we say two bodies 'touch', what we mean (without knowing it) is that both electromagnetic fields are interacting to avoid physical interpenetration and ... that happens well before subatomic particles touch!
- Felix Alba-Juez
Galloping with Sound - The Grand Cosmic Conspiracy
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Truth is not as pompous and romantic as myth ... but it has the immeasurable value of being the Truth.
- Felix Alba-Juez
E=mc^2: The Most Famous Equation in History... and its Folklore
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
In the process of burning out these confusions, we discover enlightenment. If the process were otherwise, the awakened state of mind would be a product dependent upon cause and effect and therefore liable to dissolution. Anything which is created must, sooner or later, die. If enlightenment were created in such a way, there would always be a possibility of ego reasserting itself, causing a return to the confused state. Enlightenment is permanent because we have not produced it; we have merely discovered it.
- Chögyam Trungpa
Cutting Through Spiritual Materialism
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Lifes like a painters palette, just when you've got everything worked out the colours change
- Benny Bellamacina
Piddly Poems for Children: Volume 1
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
What a silly thing love is!' said the student as he walked away. 'It is not half as useful as logic, for it does not prove anything, and it is always telling one of things that are not going to happen, and making one believe things that are not true. In fact, it is quite unpractical, and, as in this age to be practical is everything, I shall go back to philosophy and study metaphysics.'
So he returned to his room and pulled out a great dusty book, and began to read.
- Oscar Wilde
The Happy Prince and Other Tales
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
The delight we take in our senses is an implicit desire to know the ultimate reason for things, the highest cause. The desire for wisdom that philosophy etymologically is is a desire for the highest or divine causes. Philosophy culminates in theology. All other knowledge contains the seeds of contemplation of the divine.
- Josef Pieper
Happiness and Contemplation
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
It seemed to a number of philosophers of language, myself included, that we should attempt to achieve a unification of Chomsky's syntax, with the results of the researches that were going on in semantics and pragmatics. I believe that this effort has proven to be a failure. Though Chomsky did indeed revolutionize the subject of linguistics, it is not at all clear, at the end the century, what the solid results of this revolution are. As far as I can tell there is not a single rule of syntax that all, or even most, competent linguists are prepared to agree is a rule.
- John Searle
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
The sun symbolizes the Divine intelligence; the empty vastness of space symbolizes the Divine All-Possibility and also the Divine immutability; a bird symbolizes the soul; a tree symbolizes the grades of being; and water symbolizes knowledge and rain revelation.
- Osman Bakar
Tawhid and Science
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
....I am inclined to think that these muscles and bones of mine would have gone off long ago to Megara or Boeotia—by the dog they would, if they had been moved only by their own idea of what was best.

(tr Jowett)
- Plato
Phaedo
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Conservatism is the antidote to tyranny. It's the only one. It's based on thousands of years of human experience. There is nothing narrow about the conservative philosophy. It's a liberating philosophy. It is a magnificent philosophy. It is a philosophy for the ages, for all times.
- Mark R. Levin
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Buffett does enjoy being a billionaire, but in offbeat ways. As he put it, though money cannot change your health or how many people love you, it lets you be in 'more interesting environments.
- Roger Lowenstein
Buffett: The Making of an American Capitalist
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Before man ventures into daydreams about his futuristic society, he should
first immerse himself in the nothingness of his being, and finally restore life to what it is all about: a working hypothesis.
- Tomislav Sunic
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
This is precisely how someone speaks who imagines that he is the world's divinely appointed ruler: 'I will not LET them starve. I will not LET the drought come. I will not LET the river flood.
- Daniel Quinn
Ishmael: An Adventure of the Mind and Spirit
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Distrust of grammar is the first requisite for philosophizing.
- Ludwig Wittgenstein
Notes on Logic by Ludwig Wittgenstein in Danish Language Translated by Noah Morten
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
We are good to others only because we think that that is, or will be, good for us.
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
I feel tired. Or reckless. Or maybe brave.
- Lamya H.
Hijab Butch Blues
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Truth can be intuited even when it cannot be articulated in language. Such intuition is rooted in our broader obfuscated mind, which can apprehend - in symbolic ways - aspects of reality beyond the grasp of our self-reflective thoughts and perceptions.
- Bernardo Kastrup
More Than Allegory: On Religious Myth, Truth And Belief
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Communication among citizens depends upon equality. At the same time, equality cannot be achieved without facts.
- Timothy Snyder
The Road to Unfreedom: Russia, Europe, America
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
You would not search the woodside gay
To pick a springtime flower
When all the shuddering country groans
Before the North Wind's power.
Nor would you seek with greedy hand
To pluck your vines in May;
The wine god gives his gift of grapes
When Autumn's on the way.
For God has fixed the season's tasks
And each receives its own:
No power is free to disarray
The order God has shown.
- Boethius
The Consolation of Philosophy
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
We awaken by asking the right questions. We awaken when we see knowledge being spread that goes against our own personal experiences. We awaken when we see popular opinion being wrong but accepted as being right, and what is right being pushed as being wrong. We awaken by seeking answers in corners that are not popular. And we awaken by turning on the light inside when everything outside feels dark.
- Suzy Kassem
Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Wanneer er rondom niets te verwachten is, keer je naar binnen.
- Arthur Japin
De zwarte met het witte hart
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
A mother gives you a life, a mother-in-law gives you her life.
- Amit Kalantri
Wealth of Words
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Aestheticism and radicalism must lead us to jettison reason, and to replace it by a desperate hope for political miracles. This irrational attitude which springs from intoxication with dreams of a beautiful world is what I call Romanticism. It may seek its heavenly city in the past or in the future; it may preach ‘back to nature’ or ‘forward to a world of love and beauty’; but its appeal is always to our emotions rather than to reason. Even with the best intentions of making heaven on earth it only succeeds in making it a hell – that hell which man alone prepares for his fellow-men.
- Karl Popper
The Open Society and its Enemies
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
To believe in nothing is as ridiculous as to believe in everything. Reason and factual evidence may convert a belief into knowledge.
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
When we say two bodies 'touch', what we mean (without knowing it) is that both electromagnetic fields are interacting to avoid physical interpenetration and ... that happens well before subatomic particles touch!
- Felix Alba-Juez
Galloping with Sound - The Grand Cosmic Conspiracy
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Truth is not as pompous and romantic as myth ... but it has the immeasurable value of being the Truth.
- Felix Alba-Juez
E=mc^2: The Most Famous Equation in History... and its Folklore
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
In the process of burning out these confusions, we discover enlightenment. If the process were otherwise, the awakened state of mind would be a product dependent upon cause and effect and therefore liable to dissolution. Anything which is created must, sooner or later, die. If enlightenment were created in such a way, there would always be a possibility of ego reasserting itself, causing a return to the confused state. Enlightenment is permanent because we have not produced it; we have merely discovered it.
- Chögyam Trungpa
Cutting Through Spiritual Materialism
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Lifes like a painters palette, just when you've got everything worked out the colours change
- Benny Bellamacina
Piddly Poems for Children: Volume 1
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
What a silly thing love is!' said the student as he walked away. 'It is not half as useful as logic, for it does not prove anything, and it is always telling one of things that are not going to happen, and making one believe things that are not true. In fact, it is quite unpractical, and, as in this age to be practical is everything, I shall go back to philosophy and study metaphysics.'
So he returned to his room and pulled out a great dusty book, and began to read.
- Oscar Wilde
The Happy Prince and Other Tales
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
The delight we take in our senses is an implicit desire to know the ultimate reason for things, the highest cause. The desire for wisdom that philosophy etymologically is is a desire for the highest or divine causes. Philosophy culminates in theology. All other knowledge contains the seeds of contemplation of the divine.
- Josef Pieper
Happiness and Contemplation
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
It seemed to a number of philosophers of language, myself included, that we should attempt to achieve a unification of Chomsky's syntax, with the results of the researches that were going on in semantics and pragmatics. I believe that this effort has proven to be a failure. Though Chomsky did indeed revolutionize the subject of linguistics, it is not at all clear, at the end the century, what the solid results of this revolution are. As far as I can tell there is not a single rule of syntax that all, or even most, competent linguists are prepared to agree is a rule.
- John Searle
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
The sun symbolizes the Divine intelligence; the empty vastness of space symbolizes the Divine All-Possibility and also the Divine immutability; a bird symbolizes the soul; a tree symbolizes the grades of being; and water symbolizes knowledge and rain revelation.
- Osman Bakar
Tawhid and Science
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
....I am inclined to think that these muscles and bones of mine would have gone off long ago to Megara or Boeotia—by the dog they would, if they had been moved only by their own idea of what was best.

(tr Jowett)
- Plato
Phaedo
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Conservatism is the antidote to tyranny. It's the only one. It's based on thousands of years of human experience. There is nothing narrow about the conservative philosophy. It's a liberating philosophy. It is a magnificent philosophy. It is a philosophy for the ages, for all times.
- Mark R. Levin
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Buffett does enjoy being a billionaire, but in offbeat ways. As he put it, though money cannot change your health or how many people love you, it lets you be in 'more interesting environments.
- Roger Lowenstein
Buffett: The Making of an American Capitalist
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Before man ventures into daydreams about his futuristic society, he should
first immerse himself in the nothingness of his being, and finally restore life to what it is all about: a working hypothesis.
- Tomislav Sunic
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
This is precisely how someone speaks who imagines that he is the world's divinely appointed ruler: 'I will not LET them starve. I will not LET the drought come. I will not LET the river flood.
- Daniel Quinn
Ishmael: An Adventure of the Mind and Spirit
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Distrust of grammar is the first requisite for philosophizing.
- Ludwig Wittgenstein
Notes on Logic by Ludwig Wittgenstein in Danish Language Translated by Noah Morten
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
We are good to others only because we think that that is, or will be, good for us.
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
I feel tired. Or reckless. Or maybe brave.
- Lamya H.
Hijab Butch Blues
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Truth can be intuited even when it cannot be articulated in language. Such intuition is rooted in our broader obfuscated mind, which can apprehend - in symbolic ways - aspects of reality beyond the grasp of our self-reflective thoughts and perceptions.
- Bernardo Kastrup
More Than Allegory: On Religious Myth, Truth And Belief
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Communication among citizens depends upon equality. At the same time, equality cannot be achieved without facts.
- Timothy Snyder
The Road to Unfreedom: Russia, Europe, America
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
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