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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 dream of a new world to come, a new world to be birthed, a new dream to be dreamt. In the dream, a flower grows, a lotus from which the creator and the creation will unfold. From which light will begin to shine upon this vast dark sea, unveiling all the magic sleeping within. From this flower, infinite worlds and universes will be born. Each will contain a seed of light. And these seeds will light the heavens for all to guide their journeys by.
- Thomas Lloyd Qualls
Painted Oxen
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Any polis which is truly so called, and is not merely one in name, must devote itself to the end of encouraging goodness. Otherwise, political association sinks into a mere alliance.
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The development of man's intellectual capacities has far outstripped the development of his emotions. Man's brain lives in the twentieth century; the heart of most men lives still in the Stone Age. The majority of men have not yet acquired the maturity to be independent, to be rational, to be objective. They need myths and idols to endure the fact that man is all by himself, that there is no authority which gives meaning to life except man himself.
- Erich Fromm
Escape from Freedom
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Each sunrise brings a new day filled with new hopes for a new beginning.
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Writing is the spectrum through which the chaos of life can be seen, studied and understood.
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Doors of opportunity are always open around you—you just have to find them.
- Debasish Mridha MD
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The only successful philosophies and religions are the ones that flatter us, whether in the name of progress or of hell. Damned or not, man experiences an absolute need to be at the heart of everything.
- Emile Cioran
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Free will? Either you follow the word of God, or you'll be punished with eternal hellfire. That's the same kind of "choice" an abuse boyfriend gives you: 'Either you do exactly what I say, or I'll beat the shit out of you.
- Oliver Gaspirtz
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Popular medicine and popular morality belong together and ought not to be evaluated so differently as they still are: both are the most dangerous pseudo-sciences.
- Friedrich Nietzsche
Daybreak: Thoughts on the Prejudices of Morality
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The fundament upon which all our knowledge and learning rests is the inexplicable.
- Arthur Schopenhauer
The Wisdom of Life and Counsels and Maxims
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...if we gained only one incontestable truth every ten years from each of our philosophical writers the harvest we reaped would be sufficient.
- Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
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She said, "You're a warrior. So how do you kill without rage?"
"In compassion. Because of necessity." Hrahima set the empty water bowl back in Samarkar's hands. "The same way you carry water.
- Elizabeth Bear
Range of Ghosts
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Thank heaven for people who are satisfied with facts that conform to the reality they wish to believe.
- Gary Inbinder
Confessions of the Creature
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If once a man indulges himself in murder, very soon he comes to think little of robbing; and from robbing he next comes to drinking and Sabbath-breaking, and from that to incivility and procrastination.
- Thomas de Quincey
The Confessions of an English Opium Eater/The Daughter of Lebanon
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For any given problem, if there's a simple solution it will already have been applied. So, perhaps, the solution isn't as simple as you think.
- Stuart Aken
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Every sign, linguistic or nonlinguistic, spoken or written (in the usual sense of this opposition), as a small or large unity, can be cited, put between quotation marks; thereby it can break with every given context, and engender infinitely new contexts in an absolutely nonsaturable fashion. This does not suppose that the mark is valid outside its context, but on the contrary that there are only contexts without any center of absolute anchoring. This citationality, duplication, or duplicity, this iterability of the mark is not an accident or anomaly, but is that (normal/abnormal) without which a mark could no longer even have a so-called “normal” functioning. What would a mark be that one could not cite? And whose origin could not be lost on the way?
- Jacques Derrida
Margins of Philosophy
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Empiricism teaches that there is a real world of fixed things on the outside and that ideas of these outside things are stamped on the mind which is at the beginning of life a blank.
- Holly Estil Cunningham
An Introduction to Philosophy
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You and I are part of the colony of heaven. Right now, we may reside here on earth, but our passport indicates that our citizenship is in heaven. We are on the earth, but not of the earth.
- Allen R. Hunt
Confessions of a Mega Church Pastor: How I Discovered the Hidden Treasures of the Catholic Church
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Among peoples who possess a highly developed pugnacious instinct we find the greatest progress in the arts, sciences, social and political organization, commerce and industry. The instinct takes the milder form of rivalry which is the motive force of the great portion of the serious labors of mankind.
- Holly Estil Cunningham
An Introduction to Philosophy
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Plus d'un qui n'a pu liberer ses propres chaines a su pourtant en liberer son ami.
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Health is the natural condition. When sickness occurs, it is a sign that Nature has gone off course because of a physical or mental imbalance. The road to health for everyone is through moderation, harmony, and a 'sound mind in a sound body'.
- Jostein Gaarder
Sophie’s World
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One does not have to be a philosopher to be a successful artist, but he does have to be an artist to be a successful philosopher. His nature is to view the world in an unpredictable albeit useful light.
- Criss Jami
Killosophy
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If you believed in Christianity or Islam it was called 'faith', but if you believed in astrology or friday the thirteenth it was Superstition!
- Jostein Gaarder
Sophie’s World
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Enuncia algunos textos muy contundentes. Son textos en los cuales la destreza literaria casi infinita que tenía Sartre se pone al servicio de la contundencia conceptual. Y cuando se logra esto a un pensador se lo entiende y se lo recibe en plenitud.
- José Pablo Feinmann
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You dream of a new world to come, a new world to be birthed, a new dream to be dreamt. In the dream, a flower grows, a lotus from which the creator and the creation will unfold. From which light will begin to shine upon this vast dark sea, unveiling all the magic sleeping within. From this flower, infinite worlds and universes will be born. Each will contain a seed of light. And these seeds will light the heavens for all to guide their journeys by.
- Thomas Lloyd Qualls
Painted Oxen
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Any polis which is truly so called, and is not merely one in name, must devote itself to the end of encouraging goodness. Otherwise, political association sinks into a mere alliance.
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The development of man's intellectual capacities has far outstripped the development of his emotions. Man's brain lives in the twentieth century; the heart of most men lives still in the Stone Age. The majority of men have not yet acquired the maturity to be independent, to be rational, to be objective. They need myths and idols to endure the fact that man is all by himself, that there is no authority which gives meaning to life except man himself.
- Erich Fromm
Escape from Freedom
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Each sunrise brings a new day filled with new hopes for a new beginning.
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Writing is the spectrum through which the chaos of life can be seen, studied and understood.
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Doors of opportunity are always open around you—you just have to find them.
- Debasish Mridha MD
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The only successful philosophies and religions are the ones that flatter us, whether in the name of progress or of hell. Damned or not, man experiences an absolute need to be at the heart of everything.
- Emile Cioran
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Free will? Either you follow the word of God, or you'll be punished with eternal hellfire. That's the same kind of "choice" an abuse boyfriend gives you: 'Either you do exactly what I say, or I'll beat the shit out of you.
- Oliver Gaspirtz
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Popular medicine and popular morality belong together and ought not to be evaluated so differently as they still are: both are the most dangerous pseudo-sciences.
- Friedrich Nietzsche
Daybreak: Thoughts on the Prejudices of Morality
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The fundament upon which all our knowledge and learning rests is the inexplicable.
- Arthur Schopenhauer
The Wisdom of Life and Counsels and Maxims
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...if we gained only one incontestable truth every ten years from each of our philosophical writers the harvest we reaped would be sufficient.
- Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
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She said, "You're a warrior. So how do you kill without rage?"
"In compassion. Because of necessity." Hrahima set the empty water bowl back in Samarkar's hands. "The same way you carry water.
- Elizabeth Bear
Range of Ghosts
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Thank heaven for people who are satisfied with facts that conform to the reality they wish to believe.
- Gary Inbinder
Confessions of the Creature
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If once a man indulges himself in murder, very soon he comes to think little of robbing; and from robbing he next comes to drinking and Sabbath-breaking, and from that to incivility and procrastination.
- Thomas de Quincey
The Confessions of an English Opium Eater/The Daughter of Lebanon
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For any given problem, if there's a simple solution it will already have been applied. So, perhaps, the solution isn't as simple as you think.
- Stuart Aken
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Every sign, linguistic or nonlinguistic, spoken or written (in the usual sense of this opposition), as a small or large unity, can be cited, put between quotation marks; thereby it can break with every given context, and engender infinitely new contexts in an absolutely nonsaturable fashion. This does not suppose that the mark is valid outside its context, but on the contrary that there are only contexts without any center of absolute anchoring. This citationality, duplication, or duplicity, this iterability of the mark is not an accident or anomaly, but is that (normal/abnormal) without which a mark could no longer even have a so-called “normal” functioning. What would a mark be that one could not cite? And whose origin could not be lost on the way?
- Jacques Derrida
Margins of Philosophy
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Empiricism teaches that there is a real world of fixed things on the outside and that ideas of these outside things are stamped on the mind which is at the beginning of life a blank.
- Holly Estil Cunningham
An Introduction to Philosophy
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You and I are part of the colony of heaven. Right now, we may reside here on earth, but our passport indicates that our citizenship is in heaven. We are on the earth, but not of the earth.
- Allen R. Hunt
Confessions of a Mega Church Pastor: How I Discovered the Hidden Treasures of the Catholic Church
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Among peoples who possess a highly developed pugnacious instinct we find the greatest progress in the arts, sciences, social and political organization, commerce and industry. The instinct takes the milder form of rivalry which is the motive force of the great portion of the serious labors of mankind.
- Holly Estil Cunningham
An Introduction to Philosophy
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Plus d'un qui n'a pu liberer ses propres chaines a su pourtant en liberer son ami.
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Health is the natural condition. When sickness occurs, it is a sign that Nature has gone off course because of a physical or mental imbalance. The road to health for everyone is through moderation, harmony, and a 'sound mind in a sound body'.
- Jostein Gaarder
Sophie’s World
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One does not have to be a philosopher to be a successful artist, but he does have to be an artist to be a successful philosopher. His nature is to view the world in an unpredictable albeit useful light.
- Criss Jami
Killosophy
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If you believed in Christianity or Islam it was called 'faith', but if you believed in astrology or friday the thirteenth it was Superstition!
- Jostein Gaarder
Sophie’s World
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Enuncia algunos textos muy contundentes. Son textos en los cuales la destreza literaria casi infinita que tenía Sartre se pone al servicio de la contundencia conceptual. Y cuando se logra esto a un pensador se lo entiende y se lo recibe en plenitud.
- José Pablo Feinmann
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You dream of a new world to come, a new world to be birthed, a new dream to be dreamt. In the dream, a flower grows, a lotus from which the creator and the creation will unfold. From which light will begin to shine upon this vast dark sea, unveiling all the magic sleeping within. From this flower, infinite worlds and universes will be born. Each will contain a seed of light. And these seeds will light the heavens for all to guide their journeys by.
- Thomas Lloyd Qualls
Painted Oxen
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Any polis which is truly so called, and is not merely one in name, must devote itself to the end of encouraging goodness. Otherwise, political association sinks into a mere alliance.
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
The development of man's intellectual capacities has far outstripped the development of his emotions. Man's brain lives in the twentieth century; the heart of most men lives still in the Stone Age. The majority of men have not yet acquired the maturity to be independent, to be rational, to be objective. They need myths and idols to endure the fact that man is all by himself, that there is no authority which gives meaning to life except man himself.
- Erich Fromm
Escape from Freedom
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Each sunrise brings a new day filled with new hopes for a new beginning.
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Writing is the spectrum through which the chaos of life can be seen, studied and understood.
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Doors of opportunity are always open around you—you just have to find them.
- Debasish Mridha MD
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
The only successful philosophies and religions are the ones that flatter us, whether in the name of progress or of hell. Damned or not, man experiences an absolute need to be at the heart of everything.
- Emile Cioran
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Free will? Either you follow the word of God, or you'll be punished with eternal hellfire. That's the same kind of "choice" an abuse boyfriend gives you: 'Either you do exactly what I say, or I'll beat the shit out of you.
- Oliver Gaspirtz
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Popular medicine and popular morality belong together and ought not to be evaluated so differently as they still are: both are the most dangerous pseudo-sciences.
- Friedrich Nietzsche
Daybreak: Thoughts on the Prejudices of Morality
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
The fundament upon which all our knowledge and learning rests is the inexplicable.
- Arthur Schopenhauer
The Wisdom of Life and Counsels and Maxims
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
...if we gained only one incontestable truth every ten years from each of our philosophical writers the harvest we reaped would be sufficient.
- Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
She said, "You're a warrior. So how do you kill without rage?"
"In compassion. Because of necessity." Hrahima set the empty water bowl back in Samarkar's hands. "The same way you carry water.
- Elizabeth Bear
Range of Ghosts
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Thank heaven for people who are satisfied with facts that conform to the reality they wish to believe.
- Gary Inbinder
Confessions of the Creature
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
If once a man indulges himself in murder, very soon he comes to think little of robbing; and from robbing he next comes to drinking and Sabbath-breaking, and from that to incivility and procrastination.
- Thomas de Quincey
The Confessions of an English Opium Eater/The Daughter of Lebanon
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For any given problem, if there's a simple solution it will already have been applied. So, perhaps, the solution isn't as simple as you think.
- Stuart Aken
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Every sign, linguistic or nonlinguistic, spoken or written (in the usual sense of this opposition), as a small or large unity, can be cited, put between quotation marks; thereby it can break with every given context, and engender infinitely new contexts in an absolutely nonsaturable fashion. This does not suppose that the mark is valid outside its context, but on the contrary that there are only contexts without any center of absolute anchoring. This citationality, duplication, or duplicity, this iterability of the mark is not an accident or anomaly, but is that (normal/abnormal) without which a mark could no longer even have a so-called “normal” functioning. What would a mark be that one could not cite? And whose origin could not be lost on the way?
- Jacques Derrida
Margins of Philosophy
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Empiricism teaches that there is a real world of fixed things on the outside and that ideas of these outside things are stamped on the mind which is at the beginning of life a blank.
- Holly Estil Cunningham
An Introduction to Philosophy
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
You and I are part of the colony of heaven. Right now, we may reside here on earth, but our passport indicates that our citizenship is in heaven. We are on the earth, but not of the earth.
- Allen R. Hunt
Confessions of a Mega Church Pastor: How I Discovered the Hidden Treasures of the Catholic Church
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Among peoples who possess a highly developed pugnacious instinct we find the greatest progress in the arts, sciences, social and political organization, commerce and industry. The instinct takes the milder form of rivalry which is the motive force of the great portion of the serious labors of mankind.
- Holly Estil Cunningham
An Introduction to Philosophy
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Plus d'un qui n'a pu liberer ses propres chaines a su pourtant en liberer son ami.
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Health is the natural condition. When sickness occurs, it is a sign that Nature has gone off course because of a physical or mental imbalance. The road to health for everyone is through moderation, harmony, and a 'sound mind in a sound body'.
- Jostein Gaarder
Sophie’s World
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
One does not have to be a philosopher to be a successful artist, but he does have to be an artist to be a successful philosopher. His nature is to view the world in an unpredictable albeit useful light.
- Criss Jami
Killosophy
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
If you believed in Christianity or Islam it was called 'faith', but if you believed in astrology or friday the thirteenth it was Superstition!
- Jostein Gaarder
Sophie’s World
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Enuncia algunos textos muy contundentes. Son textos en los cuales la destreza literaria casi infinita que tenía Sartre se pone al servicio de la contundencia conceptual. Y cuando se logra esto a un pensador se lo entiende y se lo recibe en plenitud.
- José Pablo Feinmann
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