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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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Progress has always been achieved by probing well-entrenched and well-founded forms of life with unpopular and unfounded values. This is how man gradually freed himself from fear and from the tyranny of unexamined systems.
- Paul Karl Feyerabend
Problems of Empiricism: Volume 2: Philosophical Papers
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Considering he was neither priest nor scholar, the young man gave sensible, thoughtful replies -- the more so, perhaps, for being untrained, for he had not learned what he should believe or should not believe. Present a statement to him in flagrant contradiction to all Christian doctrine and he could be persuaded to agree on its good sense, unless he remembered it was the sort of thing of which pyres are made for the incautious.
- Iain Pears
The Dream of Scipio
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It is impossible for Stream to achieve unhappiness. Indeed it is. Unless that is, it exists in consciousness. It is impossible for the unordered to achieve happiness or unhappiness unless it were to Flow a certain way in relation with ordered effects.Unhappiness, happiness is a potential activated by the ordered in Flow.
- Dew Platt
The Rudeness of Soul
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Rationalism is false not because it seeks to express reality in rational mode, so far as this possible, but because it seeks to embrace the whole of reality in the realm of reason, as if the reason coincides with the very principle of things.
- Osman Bakar
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Thought is what we start from: the simple, intimate, immediate datum. Matter is the inferred thing, the mystery.
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striid andWthdraw into yourself. Our master-reason asks no more than to act justly, and thereby to achieve calm.
- Marcus Aurelius
Meditations
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There is only one religion - it is a way a man dies.
- James Runcie
The Colour of Heaven
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In the most general terms, the Enlightenment goes back to Plato's belief that truth and beauty and goodness are connected; that truth and beauty, disseminated widely, will sooner or later lead to goodness. (While we're making at effort at truth and goodness, beauty reminds us what we're hold out for.)
- Susan Neiman
Moral Clarity: A Guide for Grown-up Idealists
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You’re still a little shy, I see, the wizard noted. I think if you ignore evil, my friend, it tends to grow stronger. (Quinhelm, the wizard - from BRIGGEN)
- Ann B. Keller
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Beloved Pan, and all ye other gods who haunt this place, give me beauty in the inward soul; and may the outward and inward man be at one. May I reckon the wise to be the wealthy, and may I have such a quantity of gold as none but the temperate can carry. — Socrates
- Rollo May
Love and Will
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This novel is not about the proximity of death, but about the contingency of life.
- William Castano-Bedoya
The Intriguing Stillness of the Tides
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Our time is only as valuable as we make it
- Yuri Gilibloie
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Even bad art remains art, as it reminds us of our imperfection
- Viacheslav Prykhodko
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Obtaining that which is beautiful may come with extra work, but when obtained the mind and heart will be joyful.
- Matthew G. Woolf
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The quickest way to change the world is to change how we view the world.
- Kayambila Mpulamasaka
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Civilization advances by invention, but survives by tradition.
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​"Control the output to remain unseen; ignore the input to remain unshaken.
- Abdullahi Hassan Yakasai
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There is more to truth than knowing all the phrases.
- Abhijit Naskar
Nazmahal: Palace of Grace
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The most dangerous irony is, people are angry with others because of their own incompetence.
- Amit Kalantri
Wealth of Words
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Love' is the only weapon I have, I will defend with love, I will attack with love.
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The most unlucky generation is the one which couldn't produce a hero to look upto.
- Amit Kalantri
Wealth of Words
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It takes three to make love, not two: you, your spouse, and God. Without God people only succeed in bringing out the worst in one another. Lovers who have nothing else to do but love each other soon find there is nothing else. Without a central loyalty life is unfinished.
- Fulton J. Sheen
Seven Words of Jesus and Mary: Lessons from Cana and Calvary
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No one should ever ask themselves that: why am I unhappy? The question carries within it the virus that will destroy everything. If we ask that question, it means we want to find out what makes us happy. If what makes us happy is different from what we have now, then we must either change once and for all or stay as we are, feeling even more unhappy.
- Paulo Coelho
The Zahir
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Freedom is the only worthy goal in life. It is won by disregarding things that lie beyond our control.
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Progress has always been achieved by probing well-entrenched and well-founded forms of life with unpopular and unfounded values. This is how man gradually freed himself from fear and from the tyranny of unexamined systems.
- Paul Karl Feyerabend
Problems of Empiricism: Volume 2: Philosophical Papers
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Considering he was neither priest nor scholar, the young man gave sensible, thoughtful replies -- the more so, perhaps, for being untrained, for he had not learned what he should believe or should not believe. Present a statement to him in flagrant contradiction to all Christian doctrine and he could be persuaded to agree on its good sense, unless he remembered it was the sort of thing of which pyres are made for the incautious.
- Iain Pears
The Dream of Scipio
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It is impossible for Stream to achieve unhappiness. Indeed it is. Unless that is, it exists in consciousness. It is impossible for the unordered to achieve happiness or unhappiness unless it were to Flow a certain way in relation with ordered effects.Unhappiness, happiness is a potential activated by the ordered in Flow.
- Dew Platt
The Rudeness of Soul
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Rationalism is false not because it seeks to express reality in rational mode, so far as this possible, but because it seeks to embrace the whole of reality in the realm of reason, as if the reason coincides with the very principle of things.
- Osman Bakar
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Thought is what we start from: the simple, intimate, immediate datum. Matter is the inferred thing, the mystery.
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striid andWthdraw into yourself. Our master-reason asks no more than to act justly, and thereby to achieve calm.
- Marcus Aurelius
Meditations
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There is only one religion - it is a way a man dies.
- James Runcie
The Colour of Heaven
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In the most general terms, the Enlightenment goes back to Plato's belief that truth and beauty and goodness are connected; that truth and beauty, disseminated widely, will sooner or later lead to goodness. (While we're making at effort at truth and goodness, beauty reminds us what we're hold out for.)
- Susan Neiman
Moral Clarity: A Guide for Grown-up Idealists
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You’re still a little shy, I see, the wizard noted. I think if you ignore evil, my friend, it tends to grow stronger. (Quinhelm, the wizard - from BRIGGEN)
- Ann B. Keller
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Beloved Pan, and all ye other gods who haunt this place, give me beauty in the inward soul; and may the outward and inward man be at one. May I reckon the wise to be the wealthy, and may I have such a quantity of gold as none but the temperate can carry. — Socrates
- Rollo May
Love and Will
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
This novel is not about the proximity of death, but about the contingency of life.
- William Castano-Bedoya
The Intriguing Stillness of the Tides
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Our time is only as valuable as we make it
- Yuri Gilibloie
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Even bad art remains art, as it reminds us of our imperfection
- Viacheslav Prykhodko
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Obtaining that which is beautiful may come with extra work, but when obtained the mind and heart will be joyful.
- Matthew G. Woolf
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
The quickest way to change the world is to change how we view the world.
- Kayambila Mpulamasaka
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Civilization advances by invention, but survives by tradition.
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​"Control the output to remain unseen; ignore the input to remain unshaken.
- Abdullahi Hassan Yakasai
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There is more to truth than knowing all the phrases.
- Abhijit Naskar
Nazmahal: Palace of Grace
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The most dangerous irony is, people are angry with others because of their own incompetence.
- Amit Kalantri
Wealth of Words
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Love' is the only weapon I have, I will defend with love, I will attack with love.
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The most unlucky generation is the one which couldn't produce a hero to look upto.
- Amit Kalantri
Wealth of Words
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It takes three to make love, not two: you, your spouse, and God. Without God people only succeed in bringing out the worst in one another. Lovers who have nothing else to do but love each other soon find there is nothing else. Without a central loyalty life is unfinished.
- Fulton J. Sheen
Seven Words of Jesus and Mary: Lessons from Cana and Calvary
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No one should ever ask themselves that: why am I unhappy? The question carries within it the virus that will destroy everything. If we ask that question, it means we want to find out what makes us happy. If what makes us happy is different from what we have now, then we must either change once and for all or stay as we are, feeling even more unhappy.
- Paulo Coelho
The Zahir
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Freedom is the only worthy goal in life. It is won by disregarding things that lie beyond our control.
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Progress has always been achieved by probing well-entrenched and well-founded forms of life with unpopular and unfounded values. This is how man gradually freed himself from fear and from the tyranny of unexamined systems.
- Paul Karl Feyerabend
Problems of Empiricism: Volume 2: Philosophical Papers
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Considering he was neither priest nor scholar, the young man gave sensible, thoughtful replies -- the more so, perhaps, for being untrained, for he had not learned what he should believe or should not believe. Present a statement to him in flagrant contradiction to all Christian doctrine and he could be persuaded to agree on its good sense, unless he remembered it was the sort of thing of which pyres are made for the incautious.
- Iain Pears
The Dream of Scipio
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
It is impossible for Stream to achieve unhappiness. Indeed it is. Unless that is, it exists in consciousness. It is impossible for the unordered to achieve happiness or unhappiness unless it were to Flow a certain way in relation with ordered effects.Unhappiness, happiness is a potential activated by the ordered in Flow.
- Dew Platt
The Rudeness of Soul
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Rationalism is false not because it seeks to express reality in rational mode, so far as this possible, but because it seeks to embrace the whole of reality in the realm of reason, as if the reason coincides with the very principle of things.
- Osman Bakar
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Thought is what we start from: the simple, intimate, immediate datum. Matter is the inferred thing, the mystery.
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
striid andWthdraw into yourself. Our master-reason asks no more than to act justly, and thereby to achieve calm.
- Marcus Aurelius
Meditations
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
There is only one religion - it is a way a man dies.
- James Runcie
The Colour of Heaven
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
In the most general terms, the Enlightenment goes back to Plato's belief that truth and beauty and goodness are connected; that truth and beauty, disseminated widely, will sooner or later lead to goodness. (While we're making at effort at truth and goodness, beauty reminds us what we're hold out for.)
- Susan Neiman
Moral Clarity: A Guide for Grown-up Idealists
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
You’re still a little shy, I see, the wizard noted. I think if you ignore evil, my friend, it tends to grow stronger. (Quinhelm, the wizard - from BRIGGEN)
- Ann B. Keller
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Beloved Pan, and all ye other gods who haunt this place, give me beauty in the inward soul; and may the outward and inward man be at one. May I reckon the wise to be the wealthy, and may I have such a quantity of gold as none but the temperate can carry. — Socrates
- Rollo May
Love and Will
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
This novel is not about the proximity of death, but about the contingency of life.
- William Castano-Bedoya
The Intriguing Stillness of the Tides
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Our time is only as valuable as we make it
- Yuri Gilibloie
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Even bad art remains art, as it reminds us of our imperfection
- Viacheslav Prykhodko
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Obtaining that which is beautiful may come with extra work, but when obtained the mind and heart will be joyful.
- Matthew G. Woolf
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
The quickest way to change the world is to change how we view the world.
- Kayambila Mpulamasaka
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Civilization advances by invention, but survives by tradition.
Avg Rating: 5.0 ★Rate This Quote
​"Control the output to remain unseen; ignore the input to remain unshaken.
- Abdullahi Hassan Yakasai
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
There is more to truth than knowing all the phrases.
- Abhijit Naskar
Nazmahal: Palace of Grace
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
The most dangerous irony is, people are angry with others because of their own incompetence.
- Amit Kalantri
Wealth of Words
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Love' is the only weapon I have, I will defend with love, I will attack with love.
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
The most unlucky generation is the one which couldn't produce a hero to look upto.
- Amit Kalantri
Wealth of Words
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
It takes three to make love, not two: you, your spouse, and God. Without God people only succeed in bringing out the worst in one another. Lovers who have nothing else to do but love each other soon find there is nothing else. Without a central loyalty life is unfinished.
- Fulton J. Sheen
Seven Words of Jesus and Mary: Lessons from Cana and Calvary
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
No one should ever ask themselves that: why am I unhappy? The question carries within it the virus that will destroy everything. If we ask that question, it means we want to find out what makes us happy. If what makes us happy is different from what we have now, then we must either change once and for all or stay as we are, feeling even more unhappy.
- Paulo Coelho
The Zahir
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Freedom is the only worthy goal in life. It is won by disregarding things that lie beyond our control.
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