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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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Creating individuality, which creates and protects others' individualities is good.
- Zaman Ali
MORALITY An Individual Dilemma
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Teaism is a cult founded on the adoration of the beautiful among the sordid facts of everyday existence. It inculcates purity and harmony, the mystery of mutual charity, the romanticism of the social order. It is essentially a worship of the Imperfect, as it is a tender attempt to accomplish something possible in this impossible thing we know as life.
- Kakuzo Okakura
The Book of Tea
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Thinking only begins at the point where we have come to know that Reason, glorified for centuries, is the most obstinate adversary of thinking.
- Martin Heidegger
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Everything is good as it comes from the hands of the Maker of the world, but degenerates once it gets into the hands of man
- Jean-Jaques Rousseau
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Nothing is good enough; we must know and have it all.
- Zaman Ali
EVIDENCE To Know and Have It All?
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There’s simply no polite way to tell people they’ve dedicated their lives to an illusion.
- Daniel Dennett
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What really frightens and dismays us is not external events themselves, but the way in which we think about them. It is not things that disturb us, but our interpretation of their significance.
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I do not think that tragedy is our natural fate and I do not live in chronic dread of disaster. It is no happiness, but suffering that I consider unnatural. It is not success, but calamity that I regard as the abnormal exception in Human Life.
- Ayn Rand
Atlas Shrugged
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Many of our most serious conflicts are conflicts within ourselves. Those who suppose their judgements are always consistent are unreflective or dogmatic.
- John Rawls
Justice as Fairness: A Restatement
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There's only one day at a time here, then it's tonight and then tomorrow will be today again.
- Bob Dylan
Chronicles, Volume One
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There are times when wisdom cannot be found in the chambers of parliament or the halls of academia but at the unpretentious setting of the kitchen table.
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People should decide on the books' meanings for themselves. They'll find a story that attacks such things as cruelty, oppression, intolerance, unkindness, narrow-mindedness, and celebrates love, kindness, open-mindedness, tolerance, curiosity, human intelligence.
- Philip Pullman
His Dark Materials - The Trilogy: The Golden Compass / The Subtle Knife / The Amber Spyglass
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The best consolation in misfortune or affliction of any kind will be the thought of other people who are in a still worse plight than yourself; and this is a form of consolation open to every one. But what an awful fate this means for mankind as a whole! We are like lambs in a field, disporting themselves under the eye of the butcher, who chooses out first one and then another for his prey.
- Arthur Schopenhauer
On the Suffering of the World
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Thought's a luxury. Do you think the peasant sits and thinks of God and Democracy when he gets inside his mud hut at night?
- Graham Greene
The Quiet American
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We follow the ways of wolves, the habits of tigers: or, rather we are worse than they. To them nature has assigned that they should be thus fed, while God has honoured us with rational speech and a sense of equity. And yet we are become worse than the wild beast.
- John Chrysostom
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Of course there is no formula for success, except perhaps an unconditional acceptance of life, and what it brings
- Arthur Rubinstein
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Solitude, when opted for by one after having a comprehensive experience of the world, makes the ground fertile for the rare union of wisdom and rhythm to generate some quality poetry!
- Alok Mishra
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LORD ILLINGWORTH: The soul is born old but grows young. That is the comedy of life.
MRS ALLONBY: And the body is born young and grows old. That is life's tragedy.
- Oscar Wilde
A Woman of No Importance
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Remember two things: i. that everything has always been the same, and keeps recurring, and it makes no difference whether you see the same things recur in a hundred years or two hundred, or in an infinite period; ii. that the longest-lived and those who will die soonest lose the same thing. The present is all that they can give up, since that is all you have, and what you do not have you cannot lose.
- Marcus Aurelius
Meditations
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I used to think I knew what was right and what was wrong, and who the good guys are, and who the bad guys are. Then the world got very gray, and I didn't know anything for a long time
- Laurell K. Hamilton
Incubus Dreams
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In the eighteenth century, philosophers considered the whole of human knowledge, including science, to be their field and discussed questions such as: Did the universe have a beginning? However, in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, science became too technical and mathematical for the philosophers, or anyone else except a few specialists. Philosophers reduced the scope of their inquiries so much that Wittgenstein, the most famous philosopher of this century, said, "The sole remaining task for philosophy is the analysis of language." What a comedown from the great tradition of philosophy from Aristotle to Kant!
- Stephen Hawking
A Brief History of Time
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People ought to fight
to keep their law
as to defend the citys walls.
- Heraclitus
Fragments
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How can a society that exists on instant mashed potatoes, packaged cake mixes, frozen dinners, and instant cameras teach patience to its young?
- Paul Sweeney
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To be a god can ultimately become boring and degrading. There'd be reason enough for the invention of free will! A god might wish to escape into sleep and be alive only in the unconscious projections of his dream-creatures.
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Creating individuality, which creates and protects others' individualities is good.
- Zaman Ali
MORALITY An Individual Dilemma
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Teaism is a cult founded on the adoration of the beautiful among the sordid facts of everyday existence. It inculcates purity and harmony, the mystery of mutual charity, the romanticism of the social order. It is essentially a worship of the Imperfect, as it is a tender attempt to accomplish something possible in this impossible thing we know as life.
- Kakuzo Okakura
The Book of Tea
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Thinking only begins at the point where we have come to know that Reason, glorified for centuries, is the most obstinate adversary of thinking.
- Martin Heidegger
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Everything is good as it comes from the hands of the Maker of the world, but degenerates once it gets into the hands of man
- Jean-Jaques Rousseau
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Nothing is good enough; we must know and have it all.
- Zaman Ali
EVIDENCE To Know and Have It All?
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There’s simply no polite way to tell people they’ve dedicated their lives to an illusion.
- Daniel Dennett
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What really frightens and dismays us is not external events themselves, but the way in which we think about them. It is not things that disturb us, but our interpretation of their significance.
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I do not think that tragedy is our natural fate and I do not live in chronic dread of disaster. It is no happiness, but suffering that I consider unnatural. It is not success, but calamity that I regard as the abnormal exception in Human Life.
- Ayn Rand
Atlas Shrugged
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Many of our most serious conflicts are conflicts within ourselves. Those who suppose their judgements are always consistent are unreflective or dogmatic.
- John Rawls
Justice as Fairness: A Restatement
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There's only one day at a time here, then it's tonight and then tomorrow will be today again.
- Bob Dylan
Chronicles, Volume One
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There are times when wisdom cannot be found in the chambers of parliament or the halls of academia but at the unpretentious setting of the kitchen table.
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People should decide on the books' meanings for themselves. They'll find a story that attacks such things as cruelty, oppression, intolerance, unkindness, narrow-mindedness, and celebrates love, kindness, open-mindedness, tolerance, curiosity, human intelligence.
- Philip Pullman
His Dark Materials - The Trilogy: The Golden Compass / The Subtle Knife / The Amber Spyglass
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The best consolation in misfortune or affliction of any kind will be the thought of other people who are in a still worse plight than yourself; and this is a form of consolation open to every one. But what an awful fate this means for mankind as a whole! We are like lambs in a field, disporting themselves under the eye of the butcher, who chooses out first one and then another for his prey.
- Arthur Schopenhauer
On the Suffering of the World
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Thought's a luxury. Do you think the peasant sits and thinks of God and Democracy when he gets inside his mud hut at night?
- Graham Greene
The Quiet American
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We follow the ways of wolves, the habits of tigers: or, rather we are worse than they. To them nature has assigned that they should be thus fed, while God has honoured us with rational speech and a sense of equity. And yet we are become worse than the wild beast.
- John Chrysostom
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Of course there is no formula for success, except perhaps an unconditional acceptance of life, and what it brings
- Arthur Rubinstein
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Solitude, when opted for by one after having a comprehensive experience of the world, makes the ground fertile for the rare union of wisdom and rhythm to generate some quality poetry!
- Alok Mishra
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LORD ILLINGWORTH: The soul is born old but grows young. That is the comedy of life.
MRS ALLONBY: And the body is born young and grows old. That is life's tragedy.
- Oscar Wilde
A Woman of No Importance
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Remember two things: i. that everything has always been the same, and keeps recurring, and it makes no difference whether you see the same things recur in a hundred years or two hundred, or in an infinite period; ii. that the longest-lived and those who will die soonest lose the same thing. The present is all that they can give up, since that is all you have, and what you do not have you cannot lose.
- Marcus Aurelius
Meditations
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I used to think I knew what was right and what was wrong, and who the good guys are, and who the bad guys are. Then the world got very gray, and I didn't know anything for a long time
- Laurell K. Hamilton
Incubus Dreams
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
In the eighteenth century, philosophers considered the whole of human knowledge, including science, to be their field and discussed questions such as: Did the universe have a beginning? However, in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, science became too technical and mathematical for the philosophers, or anyone else except a few specialists. Philosophers reduced the scope of their inquiries so much that Wittgenstein, the most famous philosopher of this century, said, "The sole remaining task for philosophy is the analysis of language." What a comedown from the great tradition of philosophy from Aristotle to Kant!
- Stephen Hawking
A Brief History of Time
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People ought to fight
to keep their law
as to defend the citys walls.
- Heraclitus
Fragments
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
How can a society that exists on instant mashed potatoes, packaged cake mixes, frozen dinners, and instant cameras teach patience to its young?
- Paul Sweeney
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
To be a god can ultimately become boring and degrading. There'd be reason enough for the invention of free will! A god might wish to escape into sleep and be alive only in the unconscious projections of his dream-creatures.
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Creating individuality, which creates and protects others' individualities is good.
- Zaman Ali
MORALITY An Individual Dilemma
Avg Rating: 5.0 ★Rate This Quote
Teaism is a cult founded on the adoration of the beautiful among the sordid facts of everyday existence. It inculcates purity and harmony, the mystery of mutual charity, the romanticism of the social order. It is essentially a worship of the Imperfect, as it is a tender attempt to accomplish something possible in this impossible thing we know as life.
- Kakuzo Okakura
The Book of Tea
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Thinking only begins at the point where we have come to know that Reason, glorified for centuries, is the most obstinate adversary of thinking.
- Martin Heidegger
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Everything is good as it comes from the hands of the Maker of the world, but degenerates once it gets into the hands of man
- Jean-Jaques Rousseau
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Nothing is good enough; we must know and have it all.
- Zaman Ali
EVIDENCE To Know and Have It All?
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
There’s simply no polite way to tell people they’ve dedicated their lives to an illusion.
- Daniel Dennett
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
What really frightens and dismays us is not external events themselves, but the way in which we think about them. It is not things that disturb us, but our interpretation of their significance.
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
I do not think that tragedy is our natural fate and I do not live in chronic dread of disaster. It is no happiness, but suffering that I consider unnatural. It is not success, but calamity that I regard as the abnormal exception in Human Life.
- Ayn Rand
Atlas Shrugged
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Many of our most serious conflicts are conflicts within ourselves. Those who suppose their judgements are always consistent are unreflective or dogmatic.
- John Rawls
Justice as Fairness: A Restatement
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
There's only one day at a time here, then it's tonight and then tomorrow will be today again.
- Bob Dylan
Chronicles, Volume One
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
There are times when wisdom cannot be found in the chambers of parliament or the halls of academia but at the unpretentious setting of the kitchen table.
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
People should decide on the books' meanings for themselves. They'll find a story that attacks such things as cruelty, oppression, intolerance, unkindness, narrow-mindedness, and celebrates love, kindness, open-mindedness, tolerance, curiosity, human intelligence.
- Philip Pullman
His Dark Materials - The Trilogy: The Golden Compass / The Subtle Knife / The Amber Spyglass
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
The best consolation in misfortune or affliction of any kind will be the thought of other people who are in a still worse plight than yourself; and this is a form of consolation open to every one. But what an awful fate this means for mankind as a whole! We are like lambs in a field, disporting themselves under the eye of the butcher, who chooses out first one and then another for his prey.
- Arthur Schopenhauer
On the Suffering of the World
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Thought's a luxury. Do you think the peasant sits and thinks of God and Democracy when he gets inside his mud hut at night?
- Graham Greene
The Quiet American
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
We follow the ways of wolves, the habits of tigers: or, rather we are worse than they. To them nature has assigned that they should be thus fed, while God has honoured us with rational speech and a sense of equity. And yet we are become worse than the wild beast.
- John Chrysostom
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Of course there is no formula for success, except perhaps an unconditional acceptance of life, and what it brings
- Arthur Rubinstein
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Solitude, when opted for by one after having a comprehensive experience of the world, makes the ground fertile for the rare union of wisdom and rhythm to generate some quality poetry!
- Alok Mishra
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
LORD ILLINGWORTH: The soul is born old but grows young. That is the comedy of life.
MRS ALLONBY: And the body is born young and grows old. That is life's tragedy.
- Oscar Wilde
A Woman of No Importance
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Remember two things: i. that everything has always been the same, and keeps recurring, and it makes no difference whether you see the same things recur in a hundred years or two hundred, or in an infinite period; ii. that the longest-lived and those who will die soonest lose the same thing. The present is all that they can give up, since that is all you have, and what you do not have you cannot lose.
- Marcus Aurelius
Meditations
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
I used to think I knew what was right and what was wrong, and who the good guys are, and who the bad guys are. Then the world got very gray, and I didn't know anything for a long time
- Laurell K. Hamilton
Incubus Dreams
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
In the eighteenth century, philosophers considered the whole of human knowledge, including science, to be their field and discussed questions such as: Did the universe have a beginning? However, in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, science became too technical and mathematical for the philosophers, or anyone else except a few specialists. Philosophers reduced the scope of their inquiries so much that Wittgenstein, the most famous philosopher of this century, said, "The sole remaining task for philosophy is the analysis of language." What a comedown from the great tradition of philosophy from Aristotle to Kant!
- Stephen Hawking
A Brief History of Time
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
People ought to fight
to keep their law
as to defend the citys walls.
- Heraclitus
Fragments
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
How can a society that exists on instant mashed potatoes, packaged cake mixes, frozen dinners, and instant cameras teach patience to its young?
- Paul Sweeney
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
To be a god can ultimately become boring and degrading. There'd be reason enough for the invention of free will! A god might wish to escape into sleep and be alive only in the unconscious projections of his dream-creatures.
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
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