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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 world is a garden of philosophy. God is its gardener; Man is the visitor.
And any tree that does not bear fruits of philosophy either does not belong to
that garden or is yet to be grown.
- Kedar Joshi
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Let the word be written by you and not told by others
- D.H. Landolfi
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There is so much in man that is horrifying!..
The world has been a madhouse for too long!...
- Friedrich Nietzsche
On the Genealogy of Morals
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The ultimate goal of humanity is knowledge.
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The Fur Person learned then and there that it is better to be a philosopher than to be a king and that, all things considered, wisdom was to be preferred to power.
- May Sarton
The Fur Person
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What’s emerging from the pattern of my own life is the for belief that the crisis is being caused by the inadequacy of existing forms of thought to cope with the situation. It can’t be solved by rational means because the rationality itself is the source of the problem. The only ones who’re solving it are solving it at a personal level by abandoning ‘square’ rationality altogether and going by feelings alone. Like John and Sylvia here. And millions of others like them. And that seems like a wrong direction too. So I guess what I’m trying to say is that the solution to the problem isn’t that you abandon rationality but that you expand the nature of rationality so that it’s capable of coming up with a solution.
- Robert M. Pirsig
Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry Into Values
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During periods of root expansion things have always looked as confused and topsy-turvy and purposeless as they do now. The whole Renaissance is supposed to have resulted from the topsy-turvy feeling caused by Columbus’ discovery of a new world. It just shook people up. The topsy-turviness of that time is recorded everywhere. There was nothing in the flat-earth views of the Old and New Testaments that predicted it. Yet people couldn’t deny it. The only way they could assimilate it was to abandon the entire medieval outlook and enter into a new expansion of reason.
- Robert M. Pirsig
Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry Into Values
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It is possible that mankind is on the threshold of a golden age; but, if so, it will be necessary first to slay the dragon that guards the door, and this dragon is religion.
- Bertrand Russell
Why I Am Not a Christian and Other Essays on Religion and Related Subjects
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Education shows the path to the door of opportunity. It gives confidence and hope to open it.
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If you change who you are to suit other people, you may end up dressed for the wrong occasion
- Benny Bellamacina
Philosophical Uplifting Quotes and Poems
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At the very best, a mind enclosed in language is in prison. It is limited to the number of relations which words can make simultaneously present to it; and remains in ignorance of thoughts which involve the combination of a greater number. These thoughts are outside language, they are unformulable, although they are perfectly rigorous and clear and although every one of the relations they involve is capable of precise expression in words. So the mind moves in a closed space of partial truth, which may be larger or smaller, without ever being able so much as to glance at what is outside.
- Simone Weil
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Your educators can only be your liberators.
- Friedrich Nietzsche
Untimely Meditations
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With a philosophy education, one can infuriate his peers, intimidate his date, think of obscure, unreliable ways to make money, and never regret a thing.
- Criss Jami
Diotima, Battery, Electric Personality
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One says the things which one feels the need to say, and which the other will not understand: one speaks for oneself alone.
- Marcel Proust
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Hey, I am thinking of it myself, in this part of world (East), we all do endeavors in praying and are sweating (white liquid) and this is our situation, frustrated , but on the other part of world (West) ,they are enjoying in party and drinking liquor (white liquid) but their situation is that, successful, I do not know that the problem relates to the type of liquid or the way of drinking!!
- Ali Shariati
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O philosophy, life's guide! O searcher-out of virtue and expeller of vices! What could we and every age of men have been without thee? Thou hast produced cities; thou hast called men scattered about into the social enjoyment of life.
- Marcus Tullius Cicero Karl Fried Muller
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Life is the greatest of all mysteries, and though I seek to solve its many riddles, my deepest fear is that I will succeed.
- Brian Rathbone
Call of the Herald
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Ik kwam er achter dat ik er mijn hele leven heus niet naar had verlang om te leven - als wat anderen doen tenminste leven genoemd kan worden - maar wel om mezelf te kunnen uitdrukken.
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...the only way to judge a philosophy is to examine the lives of those who live it.
- Karl Friedrich
Wings: A Novel of World War II Flygirls
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What man needs is not just the persistent posing of ultimate questions, but the sense of what is feasible, what is possible, what is correct, here and now. The philosopher, of all people, must, I think, be aware of the tension between what he claims to achieve and the reality in which he finds himself.
- Hans-Georg Gadamer
Truth and Method
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The philosophic outlook rises above all sectarian controversy. It finds its own position not only by appreciating and synthesizing what is solidly based in the rival sects but also by capping them all with the keystone of nonduality.
- Paul Brunton
Healing of the Self, the Negatives: Notebooks
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The tyrant dies and his rule is over, the martyr dies and his rule begins
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If you are told that such an one speaks ill of you, make no defence against what was said, but answer, He surely knew not my other faults, else he would not have mentioned these only!
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God’s plan is so perfect. That he made every person to be dependent on nature. To be dependent on other people . To be dependent on him to live and to survive. Next time think twice when you want to take nature, people or God our of your life. Think twice when you want to destroy nature and other people , because you might be destroying yourself. No matter how perfect, rich or good you are. You always need others to survive.

Philippians 2:3-4 | Philippians 2:3 | 1 Peter 4:10
- De philosopher DJ Kyos
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The world is a garden of philosophy. God is its gardener; Man is the visitor.
And any tree that does not bear fruits of philosophy either does not belong to
that garden or is yet to be grown.
- Kedar Joshi
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Let the word be written by you and not told by others
- D.H. Landolfi
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There is so much in man that is horrifying!..
The world has been a madhouse for too long!...
- Friedrich Nietzsche
On the Genealogy of Morals
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
The ultimate goal of humanity is knowledge.
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
The Fur Person learned then and there that it is better to be a philosopher than to be a king and that, all things considered, wisdom was to be preferred to power.
- May Sarton
The Fur Person
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What’s emerging from the pattern of my own life is the for belief that the crisis is being caused by the inadequacy of existing forms of thought to cope with the situation. It can’t be solved by rational means because the rationality itself is the source of the problem. The only ones who’re solving it are solving it at a personal level by abandoning ‘square’ rationality altogether and going by feelings alone. Like John and Sylvia here. And millions of others like them. And that seems like a wrong direction too. So I guess what I’m trying to say is that the solution to the problem isn’t that you abandon rationality but that you expand the nature of rationality so that it’s capable of coming up with a solution.
- Robert M. Pirsig
Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry Into Values
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
During periods of root expansion things have always looked as confused and topsy-turvy and purposeless as they do now. The whole Renaissance is supposed to have resulted from the topsy-turvy feeling caused by Columbus’ discovery of a new world. It just shook people up. The topsy-turviness of that time is recorded everywhere. There was nothing in the flat-earth views of the Old and New Testaments that predicted it. Yet people couldn’t deny it. The only way they could assimilate it was to abandon the entire medieval outlook and enter into a new expansion of reason.
- Robert M. Pirsig
Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry Into Values
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
It is possible that mankind is on the threshold of a golden age; but, if so, it will be necessary first to slay the dragon that guards the door, and this dragon is religion.
- Bertrand Russell
Why I Am Not a Christian and Other Essays on Religion and Related Subjects
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Education shows the path to the door of opportunity. It gives confidence and hope to open it.
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If you change who you are to suit other people, you may end up dressed for the wrong occasion
- Benny Bellamacina
Philosophical Uplifting Quotes and Poems
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At the very best, a mind enclosed in language is in prison. It is limited to the number of relations which words can make simultaneously present to it; and remains in ignorance of thoughts which involve the combination of a greater number. These thoughts are outside language, they are unformulable, although they are perfectly rigorous and clear and although every one of the relations they involve is capable of precise expression in words. So the mind moves in a closed space of partial truth, which may be larger or smaller, without ever being able so much as to glance at what is outside.
- Simone Weil
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Your educators can only be your liberators.
- Friedrich Nietzsche
Untimely Meditations
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With a philosophy education, one can infuriate his peers, intimidate his date, think of obscure, unreliable ways to make money, and never regret a thing.
- Criss Jami
Diotima, Battery, Electric Personality
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One says the things which one feels the need to say, and which the other will not understand: one speaks for oneself alone.
- Marcel Proust
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Hey, I am thinking of it myself, in this part of world (East), we all do endeavors in praying and are sweating (white liquid) and this is our situation, frustrated , but on the other part of world (West) ,they are enjoying in party and drinking liquor (white liquid) but their situation is that, successful, I do not know that the problem relates to the type of liquid or the way of drinking!!
- Ali Shariati
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O philosophy, life's guide! O searcher-out of virtue and expeller of vices! What could we and every age of men have been without thee? Thou hast produced cities; thou hast called men scattered about into the social enjoyment of life.
- Marcus Tullius Cicero Karl Fried Muller
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Life is the greatest of all mysteries, and though I seek to solve its many riddles, my deepest fear is that I will succeed.
- Brian Rathbone
Call of the Herald
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Ik kwam er achter dat ik er mijn hele leven heus niet naar had verlang om te leven - als wat anderen doen tenminste leven genoemd kan worden - maar wel om mezelf te kunnen uitdrukken.
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
...the only way to judge a philosophy is to examine the lives of those who live it.
- Karl Friedrich
Wings: A Novel of World War II Flygirls
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
What man needs is not just the persistent posing of ultimate questions, but the sense of what is feasible, what is possible, what is correct, here and now. The philosopher, of all people, must, I think, be aware of the tension between what he claims to achieve and the reality in which he finds himself.
- Hans-Georg Gadamer
Truth and Method
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The philosophic outlook rises above all sectarian controversy. It finds its own position not only by appreciating and synthesizing what is solidly based in the rival sects but also by capping them all with the keystone of nonduality.
- Paul Brunton
Healing of the Self, the Negatives: Notebooks
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The tyrant dies and his rule is over, the martyr dies and his rule begins
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
If you are told that such an one speaks ill of you, make no defence against what was said, but answer, He surely knew not my other faults, else he would not have mentioned these only!
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God’s plan is so perfect. That he made every person to be dependent on nature. To be dependent on other people . To be dependent on him to live and to survive. Next time think twice when you want to take nature, people or God our of your life. Think twice when you want to destroy nature and other people , because you might be destroying yourself. No matter how perfect, rich or good you are. You always need others to survive.

Philippians 2:3-4 | Philippians 2:3 | 1 Peter 4:10
- De philosopher DJ Kyos
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The world is a garden of philosophy. God is its gardener; Man is the visitor.
And any tree that does not bear fruits of philosophy either does not belong to
that garden or is yet to be grown.
- Kedar Joshi
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Let the word be written by you and not told by others
- D.H. Landolfi
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
There is so much in man that is horrifying!..
The world has been a madhouse for too long!...
- Friedrich Nietzsche
On the Genealogy of Morals
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
The ultimate goal of humanity is knowledge.
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
The Fur Person learned then and there that it is better to be a philosopher than to be a king and that, all things considered, wisdom was to be preferred to power.
- May Sarton
The Fur Person
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
What’s emerging from the pattern of my own life is the for belief that the crisis is being caused by the inadequacy of existing forms of thought to cope with the situation. It can’t be solved by rational means because the rationality itself is the source of the problem. The only ones who’re solving it are solving it at a personal level by abandoning ‘square’ rationality altogether and going by feelings alone. Like John and Sylvia here. And millions of others like them. And that seems like a wrong direction too. So I guess what I’m trying to say is that the solution to the problem isn’t that you abandon rationality but that you expand the nature of rationality so that it’s capable of coming up with a solution.
- Robert M. Pirsig
Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry Into Values
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
During periods of root expansion things have always looked as confused and topsy-turvy and purposeless as they do now. The whole Renaissance is supposed to have resulted from the topsy-turvy feeling caused by Columbus’ discovery of a new world. It just shook people up. The topsy-turviness of that time is recorded everywhere. There was nothing in the flat-earth views of the Old and New Testaments that predicted it. Yet people couldn’t deny it. The only way they could assimilate it was to abandon the entire medieval outlook and enter into a new expansion of reason.
- Robert M. Pirsig
Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry Into Values
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
It is possible that mankind is on the threshold of a golden age; but, if so, it will be necessary first to slay the dragon that guards the door, and this dragon is religion.
- Bertrand Russell
Why I Am Not a Christian and Other Essays on Religion and Related Subjects
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Education shows the path to the door of opportunity. It gives confidence and hope to open it.
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
If you change who you are to suit other people, you may end up dressed for the wrong occasion
- Benny Bellamacina
Philosophical Uplifting Quotes and Poems
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
At the very best, a mind enclosed in language is in prison. It is limited to the number of relations which words can make simultaneously present to it; and remains in ignorance of thoughts which involve the combination of a greater number. These thoughts are outside language, they are unformulable, although they are perfectly rigorous and clear and although every one of the relations they involve is capable of precise expression in words. So the mind moves in a closed space of partial truth, which may be larger or smaller, without ever being able so much as to glance at what is outside.
- Simone Weil
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Your educators can only be your liberators.
- Friedrich Nietzsche
Untimely Meditations
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With a philosophy education, one can infuriate his peers, intimidate his date, think of obscure, unreliable ways to make money, and never regret a thing.
- Criss Jami
Diotima, Battery, Electric Personality
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
One says the things which one feels the need to say, and which the other will not understand: one speaks for oneself alone.
- Marcel Proust
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Hey, I am thinking of it myself, in this part of world (East), we all do endeavors in praying and are sweating (white liquid) and this is our situation, frustrated , but on the other part of world (West) ,they are enjoying in party and drinking liquor (white liquid) but their situation is that, successful, I do not know that the problem relates to the type of liquid or the way of drinking!!
- Ali Shariati
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
O philosophy, life's guide! O searcher-out of virtue and expeller of vices! What could we and every age of men have been without thee? Thou hast produced cities; thou hast called men scattered about into the social enjoyment of life.
- Marcus Tullius Cicero Karl Fried Muller
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Life is the greatest of all mysteries, and though I seek to solve its many riddles, my deepest fear is that I will succeed.
- Brian Rathbone
Call of the Herald
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Ik kwam er achter dat ik er mijn hele leven heus niet naar had verlang om te leven - als wat anderen doen tenminste leven genoemd kan worden - maar wel om mezelf te kunnen uitdrukken.
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
...the only way to judge a philosophy is to examine the lives of those who live it.
- Karl Friedrich
Wings: A Novel of World War II Flygirls
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
What man needs is not just the persistent posing of ultimate questions, but the sense of what is feasible, what is possible, what is correct, here and now. The philosopher, of all people, must, I think, be aware of the tension between what he claims to achieve and the reality in which he finds himself.
- Hans-Georg Gadamer
Truth and Method
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
The philosophic outlook rises above all sectarian controversy. It finds its own position not only by appreciating and synthesizing what is solidly based in the rival sects but also by capping them all with the keystone of nonduality.
- Paul Brunton
Healing of the Self, the Negatives: Notebooks
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
The tyrant dies and his rule is over, the martyr dies and his rule begins
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
If you are told that such an one speaks ill of you, make no defence against what was said, but answer, He surely knew not my other faults, else he would not have mentioned these only!
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
God’s plan is so perfect. That he made every person to be dependent on nature. To be dependent on other people . To be dependent on him to live and to survive. Next time think twice when you want to take nature, people or God our of your life. Think twice when you want to destroy nature and other people , because you might be destroying yourself. No matter how perfect, rich or good you are. You always need others to survive.

Philippians 2:3-4 | Philippians 2:3 | 1 Peter 4:10
- De philosopher DJ Kyos
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