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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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Theres a remarkable amount of strength residing in those who move forward without being able to physically move. Ones that carry the weight of illness or a disability, they battle wars most know nothing about. They are the true warriors of the world, the ones who have every reason to quit but never do.
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Life is so transient and ephemeral; we will not be here after a breath. So think better, think deeply, think with kindness, and write it with love so that it may live a little longer.
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Oh, but to reach silence, what a huge effort of voice. My voice is the way I go seek reality; reality prior to my language exists as an unthinkable thought, but I was and am fatefully impelled to have to know what thought thinks. Reality precedes the voice that seeks it, but like the earth precedes the tree, but like the world precedes the man, but like the sea precedes the view of the sea, life precedes love, bodily matter precedes the body, and one day in its turn language shall have preceded possession of silence. - Clarice Lispector, The Passion According to G.H.
- Clarice Lispector
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My experience with forgiveness is that it sort of comes spontaneously at a certain point and to try to force it it's not really forgiveness. It's Buddhist philosophy or something spiritual jargon that you're trying to live up to but you're just using it against yourself as a reason why you're not okay.
- Pema Chodron
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the exclusive worship of the bitch-goddess sucess is our national disease
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whatsoever is, is in God, and without God nothing can be, or be conceived
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The whole interest of my reason, whether speculative or practical, is concentrated in the three following questions: What can I know? What should I do? What may I hope? (Critique of Pure Reason
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This is all that “ordinary” in the phrase “ordinary language philosophy” means, or ought to mean. It does not refer to particular words of wide use, nor to particular sorts of men. It reminds us that whatever words are said and meant are said and meant by particular men, and that to understand what they (the words) mean you must understand what they (whoever is using them) means, and that sometimes men, do not see what they mean, that usually they cannot say what they mean, that for various reasons they may not know what they mean, and that when they are forced to recognize this they feel they do not, and perhaps cannot, mean anything, and they are struck dumb.
- Stanley Cavell
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Life is like yoga; the only way you can enjoy it is by relaxing into any position you happen to find yourself in.
- Jon Wakeham
Troubled Waters
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It's not him who's disturbed. But he likes to disturb others--to shake them out of their rut.
- Jostein Gaarder
Sophie’s World
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It is a bitter thought, how different a thing the Christianity of the world might have been, if the Christian faith had been adopted as the religion of the empire under the auspices of Marcus Aurelius instead of those of Constantine.
- John Stuart Mill
On Liberty
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Reverence the highest, have patience with the lowest. Let this day's performance of the meanest duty be thy religion. Are the stars too distant, pick up the pebble that lies at thy feet, and from it learn the all.
- Margaret Fuller
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God's pleasure--the beauty creation possesses in his regard--underlies the distinct being of creation, and so beauty is the first and truest word concerning all that appears within being; beauty is the showing of what is; God looked upon what he had wrought and saw that it was good.
- David Bentley Hart
The Beauty of the Infinite: The Aesthetics of Christian Truth
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Snow floated down every once in a while, but it was frail snow, like a memory fading into the distance.
- Haruki Murakami
The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle
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Faith in God is optional, but faith in the self – in the spirit within, is imperative.
- Abhijit Naskar
Principia Humanitas
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Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy like art... It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things that give values to survival.
- Alice Duer Miller
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For wordsmiths and masters of words, without necessarily being harsh with words, the words have a tendency to shoot straight to the hearts of people, and this either deeply touches them or deeply angers them. Like the apostles in all their loving controversies are those who are masters of words while combining this gift with truth.
- Criss Jami
Killosophy
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When your tears become invisible, disappear
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Society can and does execute its own mandates: and if it issues wrong mandates instead of right, or any mandates at all in things with which it ought not to meddle, it practises a social tyranny more formidable than many kinds of political oppression...
- John Stuart Mill
On Liberty
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It is pointless to ask: Why then is sex so secret? What is this force that so long reduced it to silence and has only recently relaxed its hold somewhat, allowing us to question it perhaps, but always in the context of and through its repression? In reality, this question, so often repeated nowadays, is but the recent form of a considerable affirmation and a secular prescription: there is where the truth is; go see if you can uncover it. [...] It is reasonable therefore to ask first of all: What is this injunction? Why this great chase after the truth of sex, the truth in sex?
- Michel Foucault
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- تركي الدخيل
كيف تربح المال بأقل مجهود!
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I believe that just because something didn’t go the way you planned it once, it’s no reason not to try again.
- Chantelle Shaw
The Ultimate Risk
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Sublime natures are seldom clean!
- Longinus
Longinus: On the Sublime
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Nat: Maybe you broke something.
Midge: I know. Never fall down, never fall down!
Nat: Ah, it's nothing. I fall down every morning. I get up, I have a cup of coffee, I fall down. That's the system. Two years old, you stand up and then BOOM! seventy years later, you fall down again.
- Herb Gardner
I'm Not Rappaport
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Theres a remarkable amount of strength residing in those who move forward without being able to physically move. Ones that carry the weight of illness or a disability, they battle wars most know nothing about. They are the true warriors of the world, the ones who have every reason to quit but never do.
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Life is so transient and ephemeral; we will not be here after a breath. So think better, think deeply, think with kindness, and write it with love so that it may live a little longer.
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Oh, but to reach silence, what a huge effort of voice. My voice is the way I go seek reality; reality prior to my language exists as an unthinkable thought, but I was and am fatefully impelled to have to know what thought thinks. Reality precedes the voice that seeks it, but like the earth precedes the tree, but like the world precedes the man, but like the sea precedes the view of the sea, life precedes love, bodily matter precedes the body, and one day in its turn language shall have preceded possession of silence. - Clarice Lispector, The Passion According to G.H.
- Clarice Lispector
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My experience with forgiveness is that it sort of comes spontaneously at a certain point and to try to force it it's not really forgiveness. It's Buddhist philosophy or something spiritual jargon that you're trying to live up to but you're just using it against yourself as a reason why you're not okay.
- Pema Chodron
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the exclusive worship of the bitch-goddess sucess is our national disease
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whatsoever is, is in God, and without God nothing can be, or be conceived
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The whole interest of my reason, whether speculative or practical, is concentrated in the three following questions: What can I know? What should I do? What may I hope? (Critique of Pure Reason
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This is all that “ordinary” in the phrase “ordinary language philosophy” means, or ought to mean. It does not refer to particular words of wide use, nor to particular sorts of men. It reminds us that whatever words are said and meant are said and meant by particular men, and that to understand what they (the words) mean you must understand what they (whoever is using them) means, and that sometimes men, do not see what they mean, that usually they cannot say what they mean, that for various reasons they may not know what they mean, and that when they are forced to recognize this they feel they do not, and perhaps cannot, mean anything, and they are struck dumb.
- Stanley Cavell
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Life is like yoga; the only way you can enjoy it is by relaxing into any position you happen to find yourself in.
- Jon Wakeham
Troubled Waters
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It's not him who's disturbed. But he likes to disturb others--to shake them out of their rut.
- Jostein Gaarder
Sophie’s World
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It is a bitter thought, how different a thing the Christianity of the world might have been, if the Christian faith had been adopted as the religion of the empire under the auspices of Marcus Aurelius instead of those of Constantine.
- John Stuart Mill
On Liberty
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Reverence the highest, have patience with the lowest. Let this day's performance of the meanest duty be thy religion. Are the stars too distant, pick up the pebble that lies at thy feet, and from it learn the all.
- Margaret Fuller
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God's pleasure--the beauty creation possesses in his regard--underlies the distinct being of creation, and so beauty is the first and truest word concerning all that appears within being; beauty is the showing of what is; God looked upon what he had wrought and saw that it was good.
- David Bentley Hart
The Beauty of the Infinite: The Aesthetics of Christian Truth
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Snow floated down every once in a while, but it was frail snow, like a memory fading into the distance.
- Haruki Murakami
The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle
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Faith in God is optional, but faith in the self – in the spirit within, is imperative.
- Abhijit Naskar
Principia Humanitas
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Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy like art... It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things that give values to survival.
- Alice Duer Miller
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For wordsmiths and masters of words, without necessarily being harsh with words, the words have a tendency to shoot straight to the hearts of people, and this either deeply touches them or deeply angers them. Like the apostles in all their loving controversies are those who are masters of words while combining this gift with truth.
- Criss Jami
Killosophy
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When your tears become invisible, disappear
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Society can and does execute its own mandates: and if it issues wrong mandates instead of right, or any mandates at all in things with which it ought not to meddle, it practises a social tyranny more formidable than many kinds of political oppression...
- John Stuart Mill
On Liberty
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It is pointless to ask: Why then is sex so secret? What is this force that so long reduced it to silence and has only recently relaxed its hold somewhat, allowing us to question it perhaps, but always in the context of and through its repression? In reality, this question, so often repeated nowadays, is but the recent form of a considerable affirmation and a secular prescription: there is where the truth is; go see if you can uncover it. [...] It is reasonable therefore to ask first of all: What is this injunction? Why this great chase after the truth of sex, the truth in sex?
- Michel Foucault
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- تركي الدخيل
كيف تربح المال بأقل مجهود!
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I believe that just because something didn’t go the way you planned it once, it’s no reason not to try again.
- Chantelle Shaw
The Ultimate Risk
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Sublime natures are seldom clean!
- Longinus
Longinus: On the Sublime
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Nat: Maybe you broke something.
Midge: I know. Never fall down, never fall down!
Nat: Ah, it's nothing. I fall down every morning. I get up, I have a cup of coffee, I fall down. That's the system. Two years old, you stand up and then BOOM! seventy years later, you fall down again.
- Herb Gardner
I'm Not Rappaport
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Theres a remarkable amount of strength residing in those who move forward without being able to physically move. Ones that carry the weight of illness or a disability, they battle wars most know nothing about. They are the true warriors of the world, the ones who have every reason to quit but never do.
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Life is so transient and ephemeral; we will not be here after a breath. So think better, think deeply, think with kindness, and write it with love so that it may live a little longer.
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Oh, but to reach silence, what a huge effort of voice. My voice is the way I go seek reality; reality prior to my language exists as an unthinkable thought, but I was and am fatefully impelled to have to know what thought thinks. Reality precedes the voice that seeks it, but like the earth precedes the tree, but like the world precedes the man, but like the sea precedes the view of the sea, life precedes love, bodily matter precedes the body, and one day in its turn language shall have preceded possession of silence. - Clarice Lispector, The Passion According to G.H.
- Clarice Lispector
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My experience with forgiveness is that it sort of comes spontaneously at a certain point and to try to force it it's not really forgiveness. It's Buddhist philosophy or something spiritual jargon that you're trying to live up to but you're just using it against yourself as a reason why you're not okay.
- Pema Chodron
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the exclusive worship of the bitch-goddess sucess is our national disease
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whatsoever is, is in God, and without God nothing can be, or be conceived
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The whole interest of my reason, whether speculative or practical, is concentrated in the three following questions: What can I know? What should I do? What may I hope? (Critique of Pure Reason
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This is all that “ordinary” in the phrase “ordinary language philosophy” means, or ought to mean. It does not refer to particular words of wide use, nor to particular sorts of men. It reminds us that whatever words are said and meant are said and meant by particular men, and that to understand what they (the words) mean you must understand what they (whoever is using them) means, and that sometimes men, do not see what they mean, that usually they cannot say what they mean, that for various reasons they may not know what they mean, and that when they are forced to recognize this they feel they do not, and perhaps cannot, mean anything, and they are struck dumb.
- Stanley Cavell
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Life is like yoga; the only way you can enjoy it is by relaxing into any position you happen to find yourself in.
- Jon Wakeham
Troubled Waters
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It's not him who's disturbed. But he likes to disturb others--to shake them out of their rut.
- Jostein Gaarder
Sophie’s World
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It is a bitter thought, how different a thing the Christianity of the world might have been, if the Christian faith had been adopted as the religion of the empire under the auspices of Marcus Aurelius instead of those of Constantine.
- John Stuart Mill
On Liberty
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Reverence the highest, have patience with the lowest. Let this day's performance of the meanest duty be thy religion. Are the stars too distant, pick up the pebble that lies at thy feet, and from it learn the all.
- Margaret Fuller
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God's pleasure--the beauty creation possesses in his regard--underlies the distinct being of creation, and so beauty is the first and truest word concerning all that appears within being; beauty is the showing of what is; God looked upon what he had wrought and saw that it was good.
- David Bentley Hart
The Beauty of the Infinite: The Aesthetics of Christian Truth
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Snow floated down every once in a while, but it was frail snow, like a memory fading into the distance.
- Haruki Murakami
The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Faith in God is optional, but faith in the self – in the spirit within, is imperative.
- Abhijit Naskar
Principia Humanitas
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy like art... It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things that give values to survival.
- Alice Duer Miller
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
For wordsmiths and masters of words, without necessarily being harsh with words, the words have a tendency to shoot straight to the hearts of people, and this either deeply touches them or deeply angers them. Like the apostles in all their loving controversies are those who are masters of words while combining this gift with truth.
- Criss Jami
Killosophy
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
When your tears become invisible, disappear
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Society can and does execute its own mandates: and if it issues wrong mandates instead of right, or any mandates at all in things with which it ought not to meddle, it practises a social tyranny more formidable than many kinds of political oppression...
- John Stuart Mill
On Liberty
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
It is pointless to ask: Why then is sex so secret? What is this force that so long reduced it to silence and has only recently relaxed its hold somewhat, allowing us to question it perhaps, but always in the context of and through its repression? In reality, this question, so often repeated nowadays, is but the recent form of a considerable affirmation and a secular prescription: there is where the truth is; go see if you can uncover it. [...] It is reasonable therefore to ask first of all: What is this injunction? Why this great chase after the truth of sex, the truth in sex?
- Michel Foucault
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
...
- تركي الدخيل
كيف تربح المال بأقل مجهود!
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I believe that just because something didn’t go the way you planned it once, it’s no reason not to try again.
- Chantelle Shaw
The Ultimate Risk
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Sublime natures are seldom clean!
- Longinus
Longinus: On the Sublime
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Nat: Maybe you broke something.
Midge: I know. Never fall down, never fall down!
Nat: Ah, it's nothing. I fall down every morning. I get up, I have a cup of coffee, I fall down. That's the system. Two years old, you stand up and then BOOM! seventy years later, you fall down again.
- Herb Gardner
I'm Not Rappaport
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