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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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The end may justify the means as long as there is something that justifies the end.
- Leon Trotsky
Their Morals and Ours: The Class Foundations of Moral Practice
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The most perfidious way of harming a cause consists of defending it deliberately with faulty arguments.
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Be wiser than other people if you can; but do not tell them so.
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All men by nature desire to know.
- Aristotle
Metaphysics
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Joy is the goal of existence, and joy is not to be stumbled upon, but to be achieved, and the act of treason is to let its vision drown in the swamp of the moment's torture.
- Ayn Rand
Atlas Shrugged
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It is not that I am mad, it is only that my head is different from yours.
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All is mystery; but he is a slave who will not struggle to penetrate the dark veil.
- Benjamin Disraeli
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I can accept anything, except what seems to be the easiest for most people: the half-way, the almost, the just-about, the in-between.
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Not how the world is, but that it is, is the mystery.
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If you've got the truth you can demonstrate it. Talking doesn't prove it.
- Robert A. Heinlein
Stranger in a Strange Land
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There is nothing more unequal than the equal treatment of unequal people.
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Who is wise? He that learns from everyone. Who is powerful? He that governs his passions. Who is rich? He that is content. Who is that? Nobody.
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If there were a party of those who aren't sure they're right, I'd belong to it.
(as quoted by Tony Judt)
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Whoever will be free must make himself free. Freedom is no fairy gift to fall into a man's lap. What is freedom? To have the will to be responsible for one's self.
- Max Stirner
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Those who know that they are profound strive for clarity. Those who would like to seem profound to the crowd strive for obscurity. For the crowd believes that if it cannot see to the bottom of something it must be profound. It is so timid and dislikes going into the water.
- Friedrich Nietzsche
The Gay Science: With a Prelude in Rhymes and an Appendix of Songs
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The Study of philosophy is not that we may know what men have thought, but what the truth of things is.
- St. Thomas Aquinas
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A student, filled with emotion and crying, implored, "Why is there so much suffering?"

Suzuki Roshi replied, "No reason.
- Shunryu Suzuki
Zen Is Right Here: Teaching Stories and Anecdotes of Shunryu Suzuki, Author of "ZEN Mind, Beginner's Mind"
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It is the privilege of the gods to want nothing, and of godlike men to want little.
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To be alone is to be different, to be different is to be alone.
- Suzanne Gordon
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Things always become obvious after the fact
- Nassim Nicholas Taleb
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Now, my own suspicion is that the universe is not only queerer than we suppose, but queerer than we can suppose. I have read and heard many attempts at a systematic account of it, from materialism and theosophy to the Christian system or that of Kant, and I have always felt that they were much too simple. I suspect that there are more things in heaven and earth that are dreamed of, or can be dreamed of, in any philosophy. That is the reason why I have no philosophy myself, and must be my excuse for dreaming.
- J. B. S. Haldane
Possible Worlds
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The shame of being a man - is there any better reason to write?
- Gilles Deleuze
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You asked me how to get out of the finite dimensions when I feel like it. I certainly don't use logic when I do it. Logic's the first thing you have to get rid of.
- J.D. Salinger
Nine Stories
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Acting Rear Admiral Gillet said, “Captain Scultetus, please try to understand that Britain and Germany are at war! The HMS Armadale Castle has been ordered to wipe the Swakop River Radio station off the map!
- Michael G. Kramer
His Forefathers and Mick
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The end may justify the means as long as there is something that justifies the end.
- Leon Trotsky
Their Morals and Ours: The Class Foundations of Moral Practice
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The most perfidious way of harming a cause consists of defending it deliberately with faulty arguments.
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Be wiser than other people if you can; but do not tell them so.
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All men by nature desire to know.
- Aristotle
Metaphysics
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Joy is the goal of existence, and joy is not to be stumbled upon, but to be achieved, and the act of treason is to let its vision drown in the swamp of the moment's torture.
- Ayn Rand
Atlas Shrugged
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It is not that I am mad, it is only that my head is different from yours.
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All is mystery; but he is a slave who will not struggle to penetrate the dark veil.
- Benjamin Disraeli
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I can accept anything, except what seems to be the easiest for most people: the half-way, the almost, the just-about, the in-between.
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Not how the world is, but that it is, is the mystery.
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If you've got the truth you can demonstrate it. Talking doesn't prove it.
- Robert A. Heinlein
Stranger in a Strange Land
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There is nothing more unequal than the equal treatment of unequal people.
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Who is wise? He that learns from everyone. Who is powerful? He that governs his passions. Who is rich? He that is content. Who is that? Nobody.
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If there were a party of those who aren't sure they're right, I'd belong to it.
(as quoted by Tony Judt)
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Whoever will be free must make himself free. Freedom is no fairy gift to fall into a man's lap. What is freedom? To have the will to be responsible for one's self.
- Max Stirner
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Those who know that they are profound strive for clarity. Those who would like to seem profound to the crowd strive for obscurity. For the crowd believes that if it cannot see to the bottom of something it must be profound. It is so timid and dislikes going into the water.
- Friedrich Nietzsche
The Gay Science: With a Prelude in Rhymes and an Appendix of Songs
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The Study of philosophy is not that we may know what men have thought, but what the truth of things is.
- St. Thomas Aquinas
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A student, filled with emotion and crying, implored, "Why is there so much suffering?"

Suzuki Roshi replied, "No reason.
- Shunryu Suzuki
Zen Is Right Here: Teaching Stories and Anecdotes of Shunryu Suzuki, Author of "ZEN Mind, Beginner's Mind"
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It is the privilege of the gods to want nothing, and of godlike men to want little.
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To be alone is to be different, to be different is to be alone.
- Suzanne Gordon
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Things always become obvious after the fact
- Nassim Nicholas Taleb
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Now, my own suspicion is that the universe is not only queerer than we suppose, but queerer than we can suppose. I have read and heard many attempts at a systematic account of it, from materialism and theosophy to the Christian system or that of Kant, and I have always felt that they were much too simple. I suspect that there are more things in heaven and earth that are dreamed of, or can be dreamed of, in any philosophy. That is the reason why I have no philosophy myself, and must be my excuse for dreaming.
- J. B. S. Haldane
Possible Worlds
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The shame of being a man - is there any better reason to write?
- Gilles Deleuze
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You asked me how to get out of the finite dimensions when I feel like it. I certainly don't use logic when I do it. Logic's the first thing you have to get rid of.
- J.D. Salinger
Nine Stories
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Acting Rear Admiral Gillet said, “Captain Scultetus, please try to understand that Britain and Germany are at war! The HMS Armadale Castle has been ordered to wipe the Swakop River Radio station off the map!
- Michael G. Kramer
His Forefathers and Mick
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The end may justify the means as long as there is something that justifies the end.
- Leon Trotsky
Their Morals and Ours: The Class Foundations of Moral Practice
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The most perfidious way of harming a cause consists of defending it deliberately with faulty arguments.
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Be wiser than other people if you can; but do not tell them so.
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All men by nature desire to know.
- Aristotle
Metaphysics
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Joy is the goal of existence, and joy is not to be stumbled upon, but to be achieved, and the act of treason is to let its vision drown in the swamp of the moment's torture.
- Ayn Rand
Atlas Shrugged
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It is not that I am mad, it is only that my head is different from yours.
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All is mystery; but he is a slave who will not struggle to penetrate the dark veil.
- Benjamin Disraeli
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I can accept anything, except what seems to be the easiest for most people: the half-way, the almost, the just-about, the in-between.
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Not how the world is, but that it is, is the mystery.
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If you've got the truth you can demonstrate it. Talking doesn't prove it.
- Robert A. Heinlein
Stranger in a Strange Land
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There is nothing more unequal than the equal treatment of unequal people.
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Who is wise? He that learns from everyone. Who is powerful? He that governs his passions. Who is rich? He that is content. Who is that? Nobody.
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If there were a party of those who aren't sure they're right, I'd belong to it.
(as quoted by Tony Judt)
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Whoever will be free must make himself free. Freedom is no fairy gift to fall into a man's lap. What is freedom? To have the will to be responsible for one's self.
- Max Stirner
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Those who know that they are profound strive for clarity. Those who would like to seem profound to the crowd strive for obscurity. For the crowd believes that if it cannot see to the bottom of something it must be profound. It is so timid and dislikes going into the water.
- Friedrich Nietzsche
The Gay Science: With a Prelude in Rhymes and an Appendix of Songs
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The Study of philosophy is not that we may know what men have thought, but what the truth of things is.
- St. Thomas Aquinas
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A student, filled with emotion and crying, implored, "Why is there so much suffering?"

Suzuki Roshi replied, "No reason.
- Shunryu Suzuki
Zen Is Right Here: Teaching Stories and Anecdotes of Shunryu Suzuki, Author of "ZEN Mind, Beginner's Mind"
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It is the privilege of the gods to want nothing, and of godlike men to want little.
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
To be alone is to be different, to be different is to be alone.
- Suzanne Gordon
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Things always become obvious after the fact
- Nassim Nicholas Taleb
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Now, my own suspicion is that the universe is not only queerer than we suppose, but queerer than we can suppose. I have read and heard many attempts at a systematic account of it, from materialism and theosophy to the Christian system or that of Kant, and I have always felt that they were much too simple. I suspect that there are more things in heaven and earth that are dreamed of, or can be dreamed of, in any philosophy. That is the reason why I have no philosophy myself, and must be my excuse for dreaming.
- J. B. S. Haldane
Possible Worlds
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The shame of being a man - is there any better reason to write?
- Gilles Deleuze
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You asked me how to get out of the finite dimensions when I feel like it. I certainly don't use logic when I do it. Logic's the first thing you have to get rid of.
- J.D. Salinger
Nine Stories
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Acting Rear Admiral Gillet said, “Captain Scultetus, please try to understand that Britain and Germany are at war! The HMS Armadale Castle has been ordered to wipe the Swakop River Radio station off the map!
- Michael G. Kramer
His Forefathers and Mick
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