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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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Often the question has arisen concerning my own intellectual pilgrimage to nonviolence. In order to get at this question it is necessary to go back to my early teens in Atlanta. I had grown up abhorring not only segregation but also the oppressive and barbarous acts that grew out of it. I had passed spots where Negroes had been savagely lynched, and had watched the Ku Klux Klan on its rides at night. I had seen police brutality with my own eyes, and watched Negroes receive the most tragic injustice in the courts. All of these things had done something to my growing personality. I had come perilously close to resenting all white people.
- Martin Luther King Jr.
Stride Toward Freedom: The Montgomery Story
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Sometimes, the cost of our actions is paid by those who never chose to be involved.
- Shon Mehta
The Uncharted Mind
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A so called "ultimate reality" that we are looking for, is simply impossible to exist within a PURELY physical universe or a multiverse or beyond, because everything that exists physically has to exist within something.

It cannot physically exist within "nothing.", because a “nothing” that can hold something, itself has to physically exist within something, again leading to an infinite regress.

This ladies’ and Gentlemen, is the “Infinite Containment Paradox”

And this paradox of Infinite Containment leaves us with two possibilities

Your whole “life” has been a complete illusion and no one you have ever known has ever TRULY existed.

OR

We all technically “exist.” But in a manner that is COMPLETELY different from what we believe to be “real life.
- Anubhav Srivastava
Nothing/Everything: The Mindbending Philosophical Theory of Everything
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The deepest truths are not found in the cosmos, but in the depths of our own being.
- Omar Delawar
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When the landed gentry cut up a seed cake for tea it makes no difference to the cake which of them holds the knife; whoever 'won' Earth's war, it would be the same old crew who stepped up afterward to hold out their plates.
- M. John Harrison
The Centauri Device
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Man is condemned to philosophize.
- Omar Delawar
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A philosopher is a life coach for the soul.
- Omar Delawar
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When you are angry try your best to go to sleep, it keeps you away from speaking, writing and thinking while you are angry.
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All my problems bow before my stubbornness.
- Amit Kalantri
Wealth of Words
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Networking isn't how many people you know, it's how many people know you.
- Amit Kalantri
Wealth of Words
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Music shouldn't be just a tune, it should be a touch.
- Amit Kalantri
Wealth of Words
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Did you have a rough month? I did :( but, you know what? There’s no time to dwell on a missed opportunity or worry about what I should’ve done or said, beating myself up & making myself miserable about my mistakes. That doesn’t work. So will take notes from that, put it behind me, move on & finish the year STRONG
- Pablo
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Beloved, as we navigate the complexities of triumph, let us remember to scrutinize the subtle repercussions of our actions lest we declare victory prematurely. For it is in the unexamined consequences that the true nature of our success is revealed, and the wisdom of our decisions is ultimately tested.
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If you don't want a man unhappy politically, don't give him two sides to a question to worry him; give him one. Better yet, give him none. Let him forget there is such a thing as war. If the government is inefficient, top-heavy, and tax-mad, better it be all those than that people worry over it. Peace, Montag. Give the people contests they win by remembering the words to more popular songs or the names of state capitals or how much corn Iowa grew last year. Cram them full of noncombustible data, chock them so damned full of 'facts' they feel stuffed, but absolutely 'brilliant' with information. Then they'll feel they're thinking, they'll get a sense of motion without moving. And they'll be happy, because facts of that sort don't change.
- Ray Bradbury
Fahrenheit 451
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Happiness consists in frequent repetition of pleasure
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It is indisputable that the being whose capacities of enjoyment are low, has the greatest chance of having them fully satisfied; and a highly endowed being will always feel that any happiness which he can look for, as the world is constituted, is imperfect. But he can learn to bear its imperfections, if they are at all bearable; and they will not make him envy the being who is indeed unconscious of the imperfections, but only because he feels not at all the good which those imperfections qualify.

It is better to be a human being dissatisfied than a pig satisfied; better to be Socrates dissatisfied than a fool satisfied. And if the fool, or the pig, is of a different opinion, it is only because they only know their own side of the question.
- John Stuart Mill
Utilitarianism
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The moon is the reflection of your heart and moonlight is the twinkle of your love.
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The rider evolved to serve to the elephant.
- Jonathan Haidt
The Happiness Hypothesis: Finding Modern Truth in Ancient Wisdom
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Share your love, share you happiness, care for others; your wealth will be endless.
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The secret of happiness is love and secret of love is nonjudgmental care.
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Compromise brings harmony to both, happiness to none.
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Life's under no obligation to give us what we expect.
- Margaret Mitchell
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Freedom in capitalist society always remains about the same as it was in ancient Greek republics: Freedom for slave owners.
- Vladimir Lenin
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But love, like the sun that it is, sets afire and melts everything. what greed and privilege to build up over whole centuries the indignation of a pious spirit, with its natural following of oppressed souls, will cast down with a single shove.
- Jose Marti
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Often the question has arisen concerning my own intellectual pilgrimage to nonviolence. In order to get at this question it is necessary to go back to my early teens in Atlanta. I had grown up abhorring not only segregation but also the oppressive and barbarous acts that grew out of it. I had passed spots where Negroes had been savagely lynched, and had watched the Ku Klux Klan on its rides at night. I had seen police brutality with my own eyes, and watched Negroes receive the most tragic injustice in the courts. All of these things had done something to my growing personality. I had come perilously close to resenting all white people.
- Martin Luther King Jr.
Stride Toward Freedom: The Montgomery Story
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Sometimes, the cost of our actions is paid by those who never chose to be involved.
- Shon Mehta
The Uncharted Mind
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A so called "ultimate reality" that we are looking for, is simply impossible to exist within a PURELY physical universe or a multiverse or beyond, because everything that exists physically has to exist within something.

It cannot physically exist within "nothing.", because a “nothing” that can hold something, itself has to physically exist within something, again leading to an infinite regress.

This ladies’ and Gentlemen, is the “Infinite Containment Paradox”

And this paradox of Infinite Containment leaves us with two possibilities

Your whole “life” has been a complete illusion and no one you have ever known has ever TRULY existed.

OR

We all technically “exist.” But in a manner that is COMPLETELY different from what we believe to be “real life.
- Anubhav Srivastava
Nothing/Everything: The Mindbending Philosophical Theory of Everything
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
The deepest truths are not found in the cosmos, but in the depths of our own being.
- Omar Delawar
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
When the landed gentry cut up a seed cake for tea it makes no difference to the cake which of them holds the knife; whoever 'won' Earth's war, it would be the same old crew who stepped up afterward to hold out their plates.
- M. John Harrison
The Centauri Device
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Man is condemned to philosophize.
- Omar Delawar
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
A philosopher is a life coach for the soul.
- Omar Delawar
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
When you are angry try your best to go to sleep, it keeps you away from speaking, writing and thinking while you are angry.
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All my problems bow before my stubbornness.
- Amit Kalantri
Wealth of Words
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Networking isn't how many people you know, it's how many people know you.
- Amit Kalantri
Wealth of Words
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Music shouldn't be just a tune, it should be a touch.
- Amit Kalantri
Wealth of Words
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Did you have a rough month? I did :( but, you know what? There’s no time to dwell on a missed opportunity or worry about what I should’ve done or said, beating myself up & making myself miserable about my mistakes. That doesn’t work. So will take notes from that, put it behind me, move on & finish the year STRONG
- Pablo
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Beloved, as we navigate the complexities of triumph, let us remember to scrutinize the subtle repercussions of our actions lest we declare victory prematurely. For it is in the unexamined consequences that the true nature of our success is revealed, and the wisdom of our decisions is ultimately tested.
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
If you don't want a man unhappy politically, don't give him two sides to a question to worry him; give him one. Better yet, give him none. Let him forget there is such a thing as war. If the government is inefficient, top-heavy, and tax-mad, better it be all those than that people worry over it. Peace, Montag. Give the people contests they win by remembering the words to more popular songs or the names of state capitals or how much corn Iowa grew last year. Cram them full of noncombustible data, chock them so damned full of 'facts' they feel stuffed, but absolutely 'brilliant' with information. Then they'll feel they're thinking, they'll get a sense of motion without moving. And they'll be happy, because facts of that sort don't change.
- Ray Bradbury
Fahrenheit 451
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Happiness consists in frequent repetition of pleasure
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It is indisputable that the being whose capacities of enjoyment are low, has the greatest chance of having them fully satisfied; and a highly endowed being will always feel that any happiness which he can look for, as the world is constituted, is imperfect. But he can learn to bear its imperfections, if they are at all bearable; and they will not make him envy the being who is indeed unconscious of the imperfections, but only because he feels not at all the good which those imperfections qualify.

It is better to be a human being dissatisfied than a pig satisfied; better to be Socrates dissatisfied than a fool satisfied. And if the fool, or the pig, is of a different opinion, it is only because they only know their own side of the question.
- John Stuart Mill
Utilitarianism
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The moon is the reflection of your heart and moonlight is the twinkle of your love.
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The rider evolved to serve to the elephant.
- Jonathan Haidt
The Happiness Hypothesis: Finding Modern Truth in Ancient Wisdom
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Share your love, share you happiness, care for others; your wealth will be endless.
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The secret of happiness is love and secret of love is nonjudgmental care.
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Compromise brings harmony to both, happiness to none.
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Life's under no obligation to give us what we expect.
- Margaret Mitchell
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Freedom in capitalist society always remains about the same as it was in ancient Greek republics: Freedom for slave owners.
- Vladimir Lenin
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But love, like the sun that it is, sets afire and melts everything. what greed and privilege to build up over whole centuries the indignation of a pious spirit, with its natural following of oppressed souls, will cast down with a single shove.
- Jose Marti
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Often the question has arisen concerning my own intellectual pilgrimage to nonviolence. In order to get at this question it is necessary to go back to my early teens in Atlanta. I had grown up abhorring not only segregation but also the oppressive and barbarous acts that grew out of it. I had passed spots where Negroes had been savagely lynched, and had watched the Ku Klux Klan on its rides at night. I had seen police brutality with my own eyes, and watched Negroes receive the most tragic injustice in the courts. All of these things had done something to my growing personality. I had come perilously close to resenting all white people.
- Martin Luther King Jr.
Stride Toward Freedom: The Montgomery Story
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Sometimes, the cost of our actions is paid by those who never chose to be involved.
- Shon Mehta
The Uncharted Mind
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
A so called "ultimate reality" that we are looking for, is simply impossible to exist within a PURELY physical universe or a multiverse or beyond, because everything that exists physically has to exist within something.

It cannot physically exist within "nothing.", because a “nothing” that can hold something, itself has to physically exist within something, again leading to an infinite regress.

This ladies’ and Gentlemen, is the “Infinite Containment Paradox”

And this paradox of Infinite Containment leaves us with two possibilities

Your whole “life” has been a complete illusion and no one you have ever known has ever TRULY existed.

OR

We all technically “exist.” But in a manner that is COMPLETELY different from what we believe to be “real life.
- Anubhav Srivastava
Nothing/Everything: The Mindbending Philosophical Theory of Everything
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
The deepest truths are not found in the cosmos, but in the depths of our own being.
- Omar Delawar
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
When the landed gentry cut up a seed cake for tea it makes no difference to the cake which of them holds the knife; whoever 'won' Earth's war, it would be the same old crew who stepped up afterward to hold out their plates.
- M. John Harrison
The Centauri Device
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Man is condemned to philosophize.
- Omar Delawar
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
A philosopher is a life coach for the soul.
- Omar Delawar
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
When you are angry try your best to go to sleep, it keeps you away from speaking, writing and thinking while you are angry.
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
All my problems bow before my stubbornness.
- Amit Kalantri
Wealth of Words
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Networking isn't how many people you know, it's how many people know you.
- Amit Kalantri
Wealth of Words
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Music shouldn't be just a tune, it should be a touch.
- Amit Kalantri
Wealth of Words
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Did you have a rough month? I did :( but, you know what? There’s no time to dwell on a missed opportunity or worry about what I should’ve done or said, beating myself up & making myself miserable about my mistakes. That doesn’t work. So will take notes from that, put it behind me, move on & finish the year STRONG
- Pablo
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Beloved, as we navigate the complexities of triumph, let us remember to scrutinize the subtle repercussions of our actions lest we declare victory prematurely. For it is in the unexamined consequences that the true nature of our success is revealed, and the wisdom of our decisions is ultimately tested.
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
If you don't want a man unhappy politically, don't give him two sides to a question to worry him; give him one. Better yet, give him none. Let him forget there is such a thing as war. If the government is inefficient, top-heavy, and tax-mad, better it be all those than that people worry over it. Peace, Montag. Give the people contests they win by remembering the words to more popular songs or the names of state capitals or how much corn Iowa grew last year. Cram them full of noncombustible data, chock them so damned full of 'facts' they feel stuffed, but absolutely 'brilliant' with information. Then they'll feel they're thinking, they'll get a sense of motion without moving. And they'll be happy, because facts of that sort don't change.
- Ray Bradbury
Fahrenheit 451
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Happiness consists in frequent repetition of pleasure
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
It is indisputable that the being whose capacities of enjoyment are low, has the greatest chance of having them fully satisfied; and a highly endowed being will always feel that any happiness which he can look for, as the world is constituted, is imperfect. But he can learn to bear its imperfections, if they are at all bearable; and they will not make him envy the being who is indeed unconscious of the imperfections, but only because he feels not at all the good which those imperfections qualify.

It is better to be a human being dissatisfied than a pig satisfied; better to be Socrates dissatisfied than a fool satisfied. And if the fool, or the pig, is of a different opinion, it is only because they only know their own side of the question.
- John Stuart Mill
Utilitarianism
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
The moon is the reflection of your heart and moonlight is the twinkle of your love.
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
The rider evolved to serve to the elephant.
- Jonathan Haidt
The Happiness Hypothesis: Finding Modern Truth in Ancient Wisdom
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Share your love, share you happiness, care for others; your wealth will be endless.
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
The secret of happiness is love and secret of love is nonjudgmental care.
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Compromise brings harmony to both, happiness to none.
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Life's under no obligation to give us what we expect.
- Margaret Mitchell
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Freedom in capitalist society always remains about the same as it was in ancient Greek republics: Freedom for slave owners.
- Vladimir Lenin
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
But love, like the sun that it is, sets afire and melts everything. what greed and privilege to build up over whole centuries the indignation of a pious spirit, with its natural following of oppressed souls, will cast down with a single shove.
- Jose Marti
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
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