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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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Philosophers' Syndrome: mistaking a failure of the imagination for an insight into necessity.
- Daniel C. Dennett
Consciousness Explained
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Mathematicians finally developed a financial model to accurately compare apples and oranges. Any two kinds of fruit can be compared, although guavas still cause minor rounding errors.
- Graham Parke
No Hope for Gomez!
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As long as there are countries with borders in this world, nationalism would remain the highest virtue.
- Abhaidev
The Influencer: Speed Must Have a Limit
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Men and water shouldn’t stay at the same place for long.
- Abhaidev
That Thing About You
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Science must not impose any philosophy, any more than the telephone must tell us what to say.
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The only value of wasted time is knowledge.
- Monica Drake
Clown Girl
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We don't really want to get what we think that we want.

I am married to a wife and relationship with her are cold and I have a mistress. And all the time I dream oh my god if my wife were to disappear - I'm not a murderer but let us say- that it will open up a new life with the mistress.Then, for some reason, the wife goes away, you lose the mistress.

You thought this is all I want, when you have it there, you turn out it was a much more complex situation.

It was not to live with the mistress, but to keep her as a distance as on object of desire about which you dream.

This is not an excessive example, I claim this is how things function. We don't really want what we think we desire
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We are creators, and yet we naively play the role of "the created." We see ourselves as helpless sheep buffeted around by the God who made us. We kneel like frightened children, begging for help, for forgiveness, for good luck. But once we realize that we are truly created in the Creator's image, we will start to understand that we, too, must be Creators. When we understand this fact, the doors will burst wide open for human potential.
- Dan Brown
The Lost Symbol
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Measure your day not by the money you're earning but by the unconditional love that you're giving away.
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No living creature is naturally greedy, except from fear of want - or in the case of human beings, from vanity, the notion that you're better than people if you can display more superfluous property than they can.
- Thomas More
Utopia
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They grew; they did not talk about growing.
- Dejan Stojanovic
The Sun Watches the Sun
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In truth, Freud sees nothing and understands nothing.
- Gilles Deleuze
A Thousand Plateaus: Capitalism and Schizophrenia
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Our natures are, indeed, elusively insubstantial—notoriously less stable and less inherent than the nature of other things. And insofar as this is the case, sincerity itself is bullshit.
- Harry G. Frankfurt
On Bullshit
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Bring the mind into sharp focus and make it alert so that it can immediately intuit truth, which is everywhere. The mind must be emancipated from old habits, prejudices, restrictive thought processes and even ordinary thought itself.
- Bruce Lee
Tao of Jeet Kune Do
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Some people avoid thinking deeply in public, only because they are afraid of coming across as suicidal.
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It was only after two years' work that it occurred to me that I was a writer. I had no particular expectation that the novel would ever be published, because it was sort of a mess. It was only when I found myself writing things I didn't realise I knew that I said, 'I'm a writer now.' The novel had become an incentive to deeper thinking. That's really what writing is—an intense form of thought.
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The primitive tribes permitted far less individual freedom than does modern society. Ancient wars were committed with far less moral justification than modern ones. A technology that produces debris can find, and is finding, ways of disposing of it without ecological upset. And the schoolbook pictures of primitive man sometimes omit some of the detractions of his primitive life - the pain, the disease, famine, the hard labor needed just to stay alive. From that agony of bare existence to modern life can be soberly described only as upward progress, and the sole agent for this progress is quite clearly reason itself.
- Robert Pirsig in 'Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance'
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One picture puzzle piece
Lyin' on the sidewalk,
One picture puzzle piece
Soakin' in the rain.
It might be a button of blue
On the coat of the woman
Who lived in a shoe.
It might be a magical bean,
Or a fold in the red
Velvet robe of a queen.
It might be the one little bite
Of the apple her stepmother
Gave to Snow White.
It might be the veil of a bride
Or a bottle with some evil genie inside.
It might be a small tuft of hair
On the big bouncy belly
Of Bobo the Bear.
It might be a bit of the cloak
Of the Witch of the West
As she melted to smoke.
It might be a shadowy trace
Of a tear that runs down an angel's face.
Nothing has more possibilities
Than one old wet picture puzzle piece.
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On marriage: You sort of stumble along and reconnect and lose each other and reconnect again.
- Felicity Huffman
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There is desire in the perfect, beauty in the imperfect.
Thus I lust over the flawless,
and fall amorously forceless to the flawed.
- Ilyas Kassam
Reminiscence of the Present: Spiritual Encounters of the Analytically Insane
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It is closer to the truth to say that God is crazy than that God is reasonable. I suspect God merely smiles when someone calls him crazy, but shakes His head and frowns when someone calls Him reasonable.
- Peter Kreeft
Jesus-Shock
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Most of us try to do too much because we are secretly afraid we will not be able to do anything at all.
- Rick Aster
Fear of Nothing
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Love is a chemical reaction,
But it cannot be fully understood or defined by science.
And though a body cannot exist without a soul,
It too cannot be fully understood or defined by science.
Love is the most powerful form of energy,
But science cannot decipher its elements.
Yet the best cure for a sick soul is love,
But even the most advanced physician
Cannot prescribe it as medicine.


INCOMPLETE SCIENCE by Suzy Kassem
- Suzy Kassem
Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem
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you shall be told what pleased me to-day in the writings of
Hecato; it is these words: "What progress, you ask, have I made? I have begun to be a friend to myself." That was
indeed a great benefit; such a person can never be alone. You may be sure that such a man is a friend to all mankind.
- Seneca
Letters from a Stoic
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Philosophers' Syndrome: mistaking a failure of the imagination for an insight into necessity.
- Daniel C. Dennett
Consciousness Explained
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Mathematicians finally developed a financial model to accurately compare apples and oranges. Any two kinds of fruit can be compared, although guavas still cause minor rounding errors.
- Graham Parke
No Hope for Gomez!
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
As long as there are countries with borders in this world, nationalism would remain the highest virtue.
- Abhaidev
The Influencer: Speed Must Have a Limit
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Men and water shouldn’t stay at the same place for long.
- Abhaidev
That Thing About You
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Science must not impose any philosophy, any more than the telephone must tell us what to say.
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
The only value of wasted time is knowledge.
- Monica Drake
Clown Girl
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We don't really want to get what we think that we want.

I am married to a wife and relationship with her are cold and I have a mistress. And all the time I dream oh my god if my wife were to disappear - I'm not a murderer but let us say- that it will open up a new life with the mistress.Then, for some reason, the wife goes away, you lose the mistress.

You thought this is all I want, when you have it there, you turn out it was a much more complex situation.

It was not to live with the mistress, but to keep her as a distance as on object of desire about which you dream.

This is not an excessive example, I claim this is how things function. We don't really want what we think we desire
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
We are creators, and yet we naively play the role of "the created." We see ourselves as helpless sheep buffeted around by the God who made us. We kneel like frightened children, begging for help, for forgiveness, for good luck. But once we realize that we are truly created in the Creator's image, we will start to understand that we, too, must be Creators. When we understand this fact, the doors will burst wide open for human potential.
- Dan Brown
The Lost Symbol
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Measure your day not by the money you're earning but by the unconditional love that you're giving away.
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
No living creature is naturally greedy, except from fear of want - or in the case of human beings, from vanity, the notion that you're better than people if you can display more superfluous property than they can.
- Thomas More
Utopia
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They grew; they did not talk about growing.
- Dejan Stojanovic
The Sun Watches the Sun
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In truth, Freud sees nothing and understands nothing.
- Gilles Deleuze
A Thousand Plateaus: Capitalism and Schizophrenia
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Our natures are, indeed, elusively insubstantial—notoriously less stable and less inherent than the nature of other things. And insofar as this is the case, sincerity itself is bullshit.
- Harry G. Frankfurt
On Bullshit
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Bring the mind into sharp focus and make it alert so that it can immediately intuit truth, which is everywhere. The mind must be emancipated from old habits, prejudices, restrictive thought processes and even ordinary thought itself.
- Bruce Lee
Tao of Jeet Kune Do
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Some people avoid thinking deeply in public, only because they are afraid of coming across as suicidal.
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
It was only after two years' work that it occurred to me that I was a writer. I had no particular expectation that the novel would ever be published, because it was sort of a mess. It was only when I found myself writing things I didn't realise I knew that I said, 'I'm a writer now.' The novel had become an incentive to deeper thinking. That's really what writing is—an intense form of thought.
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
The primitive tribes permitted far less individual freedom than does modern society. Ancient wars were committed with far less moral justification than modern ones. A technology that produces debris can find, and is finding, ways of disposing of it without ecological upset. And the schoolbook pictures of primitive man sometimes omit some of the detractions of his primitive life - the pain, the disease, famine, the hard labor needed just to stay alive. From that agony of bare existence to modern life can be soberly described only as upward progress, and the sole agent for this progress is quite clearly reason itself.
- Robert Pirsig in 'Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance'
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
One picture puzzle piece
Lyin' on the sidewalk,
One picture puzzle piece
Soakin' in the rain.
It might be a button of blue
On the coat of the woman
Who lived in a shoe.
It might be a magical bean,
Or a fold in the red
Velvet robe of a queen.
It might be the one little bite
Of the apple her stepmother
Gave to Snow White.
It might be the veil of a bride
Or a bottle with some evil genie inside.
It might be a small tuft of hair
On the big bouncy belly
Of Bobo the Bear.
It might be a bit of the cloak
Of the Witch of the West
As she melted to smoke.
It might be a shadowy trace
Of a tear that runs down an angel's face.
Nothing has more possibilities
Than one old wet picture puzzle piece.
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
On marriage: You sort of stumble along and reconnect and lose each other and reconnect again.
- Felicity Huffman
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
There is desire in the perfect, beauty in the imperfect.
Thus I lust over the flawless,
and fall amorously forceless to the flawed.
- Ilyas Kassam
Reminiscence of the Present: Spiritual Encounters of the Analytically Insane
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
It is closer to the truth to say that God is crazy than that God is reasonable. I suspect God merely smiles when someone calls him crazy, but shakes His head and frowns when someone calls Him reasonable.
- Peter Kreeft
Jesus-Shock
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Most of us try to do too much because we are secretly afraid we will not be able to do anything at all.
- Rick Aster
Fear of Nothing
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Love is a chemical reaction,
But it cannot be fully understood or defined by science.
And though a body cannot exist without a soul,
It too cannot be fully understood or defined by science.
Love is the most powerful form of energy,
But science cannot decipher its elements.
Yet the best cure for a sick soul is love,
But even the most advanced physician
Cannot prescribe it as medicine.


INCOMPLETE SCIENCE by Suzy Kassem
- Suzy Kassem
Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
you shall be told what pleased me to-day in the writings of
Hecato; it is these words: "What progress, you ask, have I made? I have begun to be a friend to myself." That was
indeed a great benefit; such a person can never be alone. You may be sure that such a man is a friend to all mankind.
- Seneca
Letters from a Stoic
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Philosophers' Syndrome: mistaking a failure of the imagination for an insight into necessity.
- Daniel C. Dennett
Consciousness Explained
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Mathematicians finally developed a financial model to accurately compare apples and oranges. Any two kinds of fruit can be compared, although guavas still cause minor rounding errors.
- Graham Parke
No Hope for Gomez!
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
As long as there are countries with borders in this world, nationalism would remain the highest virtue.
- Abhaidev
The Influencer: Speed Must Have a Limit
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Men and water shouldn’t stay at the same place for long.
- Abhaidev
That Thing About You
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Science must not impose any philosophy, any more than the telephone must tell us what to say.
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
The only value of wasted time is knowledge.
- Monica Drake
Clown Girl
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
We don't really want to get what we think that we want.

I am married to a wife and relationship with her are cold and I have a mistress. And all the time I dream oh my god if my wife were to disappear - I'm not a murderer but let us say- that it will open up a new life with the mistress.Then, for some reason, the wife goes away, you lose the mistress.

You thought this is all I want, when you have it there, you turn out it was a much more complex situation.

It was not to live with the mistress, but to keep her as a distance as on object of desire about which you dream.

This is not an excessive example, I claim this is how things function. We don't really want what we think we desire
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
We are creators, and yet we naively play the role of "the created." We see ourselves as helpless sheep buffeted around by the God who made us. We kneel like frightened children, begging for help, for forgiveness, for good luck. But once we realize that we are truly created in the Creator's image, we will start to understand that we, too, must be Creators. When we understand this fact, the doors will burst wide open for human potential.
- Dan Brown
The Lost Symbol
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Measure your day not by the money you're earning but by the unconditional love that you're giving away.
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
No living creature is naturally greedy, except from fear of want - or in the case of human beings, from vanity, the notion that you're better than people if you can display more superfluous property than they can.
- Thomas More
Utopia
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
They grew; they did not talk about growing.
- Dejan Stojanovic
The Sun Watches the Sun
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
In truth, Freud sees nothing and understands nothing.
- Gilles Deleuze
A Thousand Plateaus: Capitalism and Schizophrenia
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Our natures are, indeed, elusively insubstantial—notoriously less stable and less inherent than the nature of other things. And insofar as this is the case, sincerity itself is bullshit.
- Harry G. Frankfurt
On Bullshit
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Bring the mind into sharp focus and make it alert so that it can immediately intuit truth, which is everywhere. The mind must be emancipated from old habits, prejudices, restrictive thought processes and even ordinary thought itself.
- Bruce Lee
Tao of Jeet Kune Do
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Some people avoid thinking deeply in public, only because they are afraid of coming across as suicidal.
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
It was only after two years' work that it occurred to me that I was a writer. I had no particular expectation that the novel would ever be published, because it was sort of a mess. It was only when I found myself writing things I didn't realise I knew that I said, 'I'm a writer now.' The novel had become an incentive to deeper thinking. That's really what writing is—an intense form of thought.
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
The primitive tribes permitted far less individual freedom than does modern society. Ancient wars were committed with far less moral justification than modern ones. A technology that produces debris can find, and is finding, ways of disposing of it without ecological upset. And the schoolbook pictures of primitive man sometimes omit some of the detractions of his primitive life - the pain, the disease, famine, the hard labor needed just to stay alive. From that agony of bare existence to modern life can be soberly described only as upward progress, and the sole agent for this progress is quite clearly reason itself.
- Robert Pirsig in 'Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance'
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
One picture puzzle piece
Lyin' on the sidewalk,
One picture puzzle piece
Soakin' in the rain.
It might be a button of blue
On the coat of the woman
Who lived in a shoe.
It might be a magical bean,
Or a fold in the red
Velvet robe of a queen.
It might be the one little bite
Of the apple her stepmother
Gave to Snow White.
It might be the veil of a bride
Or a bottle with some evil genie inside.
It might be a small tuft of hair
On the big bouncy belly
Of Bobo the Bear.
It might be a bit of the cloak
Of the Witch of the West
As she melted to smoke.
It might be a shadowy trace
Of a tear that runs down an angel's face.
Nothing has more possibilities
Than one old wet picture puzzle piece.
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
On marriage: You sort of stumble along and reconnect and lose each other and reconnect again.
- Felicity Huffman
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
There is desire in the perfect, beauty in the imperfect.
Thus I lust over the flawless,
and fall amorously forceless to the flawed.
- Ilyas Kassam
Reminiscence of the Present: Spiritual Encounters of the Analytically Insane
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
It is closer to the truth to say that God is crazy than that God is reasonable. I suspect God merely smiles when someone calls him crazy, but shakes His head and frowns when someone calls Him reasonable.
- Peter Kreeft
Jesus-Shock
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Most of us try to do too much because we are secretly afraid we will not be able to do anything at all.
- Rick Aster
Fear of Nothing
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Love is a chemical reaction,
But it cannot be fully understood or defined by science.
And though a body cannot exist without a soul,
It too cannot be fully understood or defined by science.
Love is the most powerful form of energy,
But science cannot decipher its elements.
Yet the best cure for a sick soul is love,
But even the most advanced physician
Cannot prescribe it as medicine.


INCOMPLETE SCIENCE by Suzy Kassem
- Suzy Kassem
Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
you shall be told what pleased me to-day in the writings of
Hecato; it is these words: "What progress, you ask, have I made? I have begun to be a friend to myself." That was
indeed a great benefit; such a person can never be alone. You may be sure that such a man is a friend to all mankind.
- Seneca
Letters from a Stoic
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
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