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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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Every being, created by God and unspoiled by man, is perfect, strictly defined and autonomous, entirely complete and at the same time with a built-in ability to grow and develop. This is the essence of its dignity and holiness. It is not an embodiment of God’s immense Personality, but only one of the realisations of His perfection.
- Danail Hristov
The End of the Jesus Era
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Topic: Philosophical
It is hard to be angry when one has seen the sun rise,' she said.
It seems to be true,' he admitted. 'I wonder why.'
Because it makes one feel so small and insignificant. It has been rising forever and will rise forever no matter what we do or do not do. All our problems are as nothing to the sun.
- David Gemmell
Sword in the Storm
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Topic: Philosophical
If I didn't try to assume responsibility for my own existence, it would seem utterly absurd to go on existing.
- Jean-Paul Sartre
The Age of Reason
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It is immoral to hold an opinion in order to curry another's favor; mercenary, servile, and against the dignity of human liberty to yield and submit; supremely stupid to believe as a matter of habit; irrational to decide according to the majority opinion, as if the number of sages exceeded the infinite number of fools.
- Giordano Bruno
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Attaining consciousness is connected with the gradual liberation from mechanicalness, for man is fully and completely under mechanical laws.
- P.D. Ouspensky
The Fourth Way: An Arrangement by Subject of Verbatim Extracts from the Records of Ouspensky's Meetings in London and New York, 1921-46
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Topic: Philosophical
You like me not because I like you. I like you just because I like me.
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My aim is not to be consistent with my previous statements on a given question, but to be consistent with truth as it may present itself to me at a given moment. The result has been that I have grown from truth to truth.
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Perhaps this general degradation was the result of too much crowding, too little privacy, too much noise. You couldn't be decent if you weren't intelligent; you couldn't be intelligent if you couldn't think—and who could think in all this racket? Add the stench to the confusion of cramped quarters, and who could be self-respecting?
- Lloyd C. Douglas
The Robe
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Topic: Philosophical
Don't think, but look! (PI 66)
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Topic: Philosophical
Whoever is going to listen to the philosophers needs a considerable practice in listening.
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Topic: Philosophical
Veel van wat aanvankelijk alleen in de verbeelding bestaat, wordt werkelijkheid.
- Arthur Japin
Een schitterend gebrek
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Topic: Philosophical
Normal is over rated, and so is spelling.You want perfection? Go out and buy a spell check, but know this: Spellcheck won't keep you warm at night or love you unconditionaly. I will stick to being abnormal and a bad speller. Makes life more interesting. After all, what fun is there in being normal or perfect?
- Cristina Marrero
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Topic: Philosophical
Then we’re just sitting there, staring at each other. Which has been happening a lot lately. It’s like
whatever wall there was between us, however she was holding herself back from me . . . all of that
pretense is gone.
“And when you find a soul mate,” Sara says, “it’s undeniable. You have to be together.”
“That’s my philosophy.” I look back at her. “You have to go with the flow.”
“Exactly. I think the universe guides you to make the right choices.”
“Do you believe in fate?”
“I guess, but . . . it’s more about creating the life you want so you can make that fate a reality. You
know?
- Susane Colasanti
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Topic: Philosophical, Relationships
A person whose desires and impulses are his own—are the expression of his own nature, as it has been developed and modified by his own culture—is said to have a character. One whose desires and impulses are not his own, has no character, no more than a steam-engine has character…
- John Stuart Mill
On Liberty
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The rEaL wOrLd is but a fictional place where those who have narrow minds and shallow imagination compile their oppressive ideas of what rEaLiTy only should be.
- Khayri R.R. Woulfe
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If there is a change, there must be some thing that changes, yet does not change
- Thales
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Tom felt his darkness. His father was beautiful and clever, his mother was short and mathematically sure. Each of his brothers and sisters had looks or gifts or fortune. Tom loved all of them passionately, but he felt heavy and earth-bound. He climbed ecstatic mountains and floundered in the rocky darkness between the peaks. He had spurts of bravery but they were bracketed in battens of cowardice.
- John Steinbeck
East of Eden
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Weariness that wants to reach the ultimate with one leap, with one fatal leap, a poor ignorant weariness that does not want to want any more: this created all gods and afterworlds.
- Friedrich Nietzsche
Thus Spoke Zarathustra
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Topic: Philosophical, Religion
Life is an affair of mystery; shared with companions of music, dance and poetry.
- Shah Asad Rizvi
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Topic: Philosophical
Violence begins with the fork.
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If everyone is a product of this society, who will say the things that need to be said, and do the things that need to be done, without compromise? Truth will never start out popular in a world more concerned with marketability than righteousness. It will initially suffer ridicule and even violence- yet ultimately it is undeniable. All of humanity is living in a dream world, but suffering real consequences.
- Lauryn Hill
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Topic: Philosophical
We are preoccupied with time. If we could learn to love space as deeply as we are now obsessed with time, we might discover a new meaning in the phrase 'to live like men.
- Edward Abbey
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Topic: Philosophical
Slowness means cleaving perfectly to time, so closely that the seconds fall one by one, drop by drop like the steady dripping of a tap on stone. This stretching of time deepens space. It is one of the secrets of walking: a slow approach to landscapes that gradually renders them familiar. Like the regular encounters that deepen friendship.
- Frédéric Gros
A Philosophy of Walking
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Topic: Philosophical
Slice a pear and you will find that its flesh is incandescent white. It glows with inner light. Those who carry a knife and a pear are never afraid of the dark.
- Yann Martel
Beatrice and Virgil
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Topic: Philosophical
Every being, created by God and unspoiled by man, is perfect, strictly defined and autonomous, entirely complete and at the same time with a built-in ability to grow and develop. This is the essence of its dignity and holiness. It is not an embodiment of God’s immense Personality, but only one of the realisations of His perfection.
- Danail Hristov
The End of the Jesus Era
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Topic: Philosophical
It is hard to be angry when one has seen the sun rise,' she said.
It seems to be true,' he admitted. 'I wonder why.'
Because it makes one feel so small and insignificant. It has been rising forever and will rise forever no matter what we do or do not do. All our problems are as nothing to the sun.
- David Gemmell
Sword in the Storm
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Topic: Philosophical
If I didn't try to assume responsibility for my own existence, it would seem utterly absurd to go on existing.
- Jean-Paul Sartre
The Age of Reason
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Topic: Philosophical
It is immoral to hold an opinion in order to curry another's favor; mercenary, servile, and against the dignity of human liberty to yield and submit; supremely stupid to believe as a matter of habit; irrational to decide according to the majority opinion, as if the number of sages exceeded the infinite number of fools.
- Giordano Bruno
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Topic: Philosophical
Attaining consciousness is connected with the gradual liberation from mechanicalness, for man is fully and completely under mechanical laws.
- P.D. Ouspensky
The Fourth Way: An Arrangement by Subject of Verbatim Extracts from the Records of Ouspensky's Meetings in London and New York, 1921-46
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Topic: Philosophical
You like me not because I like you. I like you just because I like me.
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Topic: Philosophical
My aim is not to be consistent with my previous statements on a given question, but to be consistent with truth as it may present itself to me at a given moment. The result has been that I have grown from truth to truth.
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Topic: Philosophical
Perhaps this general degradation was the result of too much crowding, too little privacy, too much noise. You couldn't be decent if you weren't intelligent; you couldn't be intelligent if you couldn't think—and who could think in all this racket? Add the stench to the confusion of cramped quarters, and who could be self-respecting?
- Lloyd C. Douglas
The Robe
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Topic: Philosophical
Don't think, but look! (PI 66)
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Topic: Philosophical
Whoever is going to listen to the philosophers needs a considerable practice in listening.
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Topic: Philosophical
Veel van wat aanvankelijk alleen in de verbeelding bestaat, wordt werkelijkheid.
- Arthur Japin
Een schitterend gebrek
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Topic: Philosophical
Normal is over rated, and so is spelling.You want perfection? Go out and buy a spell check, but know this: Spellcheck won't keep you warm at night or love you unconditionaly. I will stick to being abnormal and a bad speller. Makes life more interesting. After all, what fun is there in being normal or perfect?
- Cristina Marrero
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Topic: Philosophical
Then we’re just sitting there, staring at each other. Which has been happening a lot lately. It’s like
whatever wall there was between us, however she was holding herself back from me . . . all of that
pretense is gone.
“And when you find a soul mate,” Sara says, “it’s undeniable. You have to be together.”
“That’s my philosophy.” I look back at her. “You have to go with the flow.”
“Exactly. I think the universe guides you to make the right choices.”
“Do you believe in fate?”
“I guess, but . . . it’s more about creating the life you want so you can make that fate a reality. You
know?
- Susane Colasanti
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Topic: Philosophical, Relationships
A person whose desires and impulses are his own—are the expression of his own nature, as it has been developed and modified by his own culture—is said to have a character. One whose desires and impulses are not his own, has no character, no more than a steam-engine has character…
- John Stuart Mill
On Liberty
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Topic: Philosophical
The rEaL wOrLd is but a fictional place where those who have narrow minds and shallow imagination compile their oppressive ideas of what rEaLiTy only should be.
- Khayri R.R. Woulfe
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Topic: Philosophical
If there is a change, there must be some thing that changes, yet does not change
- Thales
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Topic: Philosophical
Tom felt his darkness. His father was beautiful and clever, his mother was short and mathematically sure. Each of his brothers and sisters had looks or gifts or fortune. Tom loved all of them passionately, but he felt heavy and earth-bound. He climbed ecstatic mountains and floundered in the rocky darkness between the peaks. He had spurts of bravery but they were bracketed in battens of cowardice.
- John Steinbeck
East of Eden
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Topic: Philosophical
Weariness that wants to reach the ultimate with one leap, with one fatal leap, a poor ignorant weariness that does not want to want any more: this created all gods and afterworlds.
- Friedrich Nietzsche
Thus Spoke Zarathustra
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Topic: Philosophical, Religion
Life is an affair of mystery; shared with companions of music, dance and poetry.
- Shah Asad Rizvi
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Topic: Philosophical
Violence begins with the fork.
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Topic: Philosophical
If everyone is a product of this society, who will say the things that need to be said, and do the things that need to be done, without compromise? Truth will never start out popular in a world more concerned with marketability than righteousness. It will initially suffer ridicule and even violence- yet ultimately it is undeniable. All of humanity is living in a dream world, but suffering real consequences.
- Lauryn Hill
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Topic: Philosophical
We are preoccupied with time. If we could learn to love space as deeply as we are now obsessed with time, we might discover a new meaning in the phrase 'to live like men.
- Edward Abbey
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Topic: Philosophical
Slowness means cleaving perfectly to time, so closely that the seconds fall one by one, drop by drop like the steady dripping of a tap on stone. This stretching of time deepens space. It is one of the secrets of walking: a slow approach to landscapes that gradually renders them familiar. Like the regular encounters that deepen friendship.
- Frédéric Gros
A Philosophy of Walking
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Topic: Philosophical
Slice a pear and you will find that its flesh is incandescent white. It glows with inner light. Those who carry a knife and a pear are never afraid of the dark.
- Yann Martel
Beatrice and Virgil
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Topic: Philosophical
Every being, created by God and unspoiled by man, is perfect, strictly defined and autonomous, entirely complete and at the same time with a built-in ability to grow and develop. This is the essence of its dignity and holiness. It is not an embodiment of God’s immense Personality, but only one of the realisations of His perfection.
- Danail Hristov
The End of the Jesus Era
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Topic: Philosophical
It is hard to be angry when one has seen the sun rise,' she said.
It seems to be true,' he admitted. 'I wonder why.'
Because it makes one feel so small and insignificant. It has been rising forever and will rise forever no matter what we do or do not do. All our problems are as nothing to the sun.
- David Gemmell
Sword in the Storm
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Topic: Philosophical
If I didn't try to assume responsibility for my own existence, it would seem utterly absurd to go on existing.
- Jean-Paul Sartre
The Age of Reason
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Topic: Philosophical
It is immoral to hold an opinion in order to curry another's favor; mercenary, servile, and against the dignity of human liberty to yield and submit; supremely stupid to believe as a matter of habit; irrational to decide according to the majority opinion, as if the number of sages exceeded the infinite number of fools.
- Giordano Bruno
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Topic: Philosophical
Attaining consciousness is connected with the gradual liberation from mechanicalness, for man is fully and completely under mechanical laws.
- P.D. Ouspensky
The Fourth Way: An Arrangement by Subject of Verbatim Extracts from the Records of Ouspensky's Meetings in London and New York, 1921-46
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Topic: Philosophical
You like me not because I like you. I like you just because I like me.
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Topic: Philosophical
My aim is not to be consistent with my previous statements on a given question, but to be consistent with truth as it may present itself to me at a given moment. The result has been that I have grown from truth to truth.
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Topic: Philosophical
Perhaps this general degradation was the result of too much crowding, too little privacy, too much noise. You couldn't be decent if you weren't intelligent; you couldn't be intelligent if you couldn't think—and who could think in all this racket? Add the stench to the confusion of cramped quarters, and who could be self-respecting?
- Lloyd C. Douglas
The Robe
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Topic: Philosophical
Don't think, but look! (PI 66)
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Topic: Philosophical
Whoever is going to listen to the philosophers needs a considerable practice in listening.
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Topic: Philosophical
Veel van wat aanvankelijk alleen in de verbeelding bestaat, wordt werkelijkheid.
- Arthur Japin
Een schitterend gebrek
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Topic: Philosophical
Normal is over rated, and so is spelling.You want perfection? Go out and buy a spell check, but know this: Spellcheck won't keep you warm at night or love you unconditionaly. I will stick to being abnormal and a bad speller. Makes life more interesting. After all, what fun is there in being normal or perfect?
- Cristina Marrero
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Topic: Philosophical
Then we’re just sitting there, staring at each other. Which has been happening a lot lately. It’s like
whatever wall there was between us, however she was holding herself back from me . . . all of that
pretense is gone.
“And when you find a soul mate,” Sara says, “it’s undeniable. You have to be together.”
“That’s my philosophy.” I look back at her. “You have to go with the flow.”
“Exactly. I think the universe guides you to make the right choices.”
“Do you believe in fate?”
“I guess, but . . . it’s more about creating the life you want so you can make that fate a reality. You
know?
- Susane Colasanti
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Topic: Philosophical, Relationships
A person whose desires and impulses are his own—are the expression of his own nature, as it has been developed and modified by his own culture—is said to have a character. One whose desires and impulses are not his own, has no character, no more than a steam-engine has character…
- John Stuart Mill
On Liberty
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Topic: Philosophical
The rEaL wOrLd is but a fictional place where those who have narrow minds and shallow imagination compile their oppressive ideas of what rEaLiTy only should be.
- Khayri R.R. Woulfe
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Topic: Philosophical
If there is a change, there must be some thing that changes, yet does not change
- Thales
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Topic: Philosophical
Tom felt his darkness. His father was beautiful and clever, his mother was short and mathematically sure. Each of his brothers and sisters had looks or gifts or fortune. Tom loved all of them passionately, but he felt heavy and earth-bound. He climbed ecstatic mountains and floundered in the rocky darkness between the peaks. He had spurts of bravery but they were bracketed in battens of cowardice.
- John Steinbeck
East of Eden
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Topic: Philosophical
Weariness that wants to reach the ultimate with one leap, with one fatal leap, a poor ignorant weariness that does not want to want any more: this created all gods and afterworlds.
- Friedrich Nietzsche
Thus Spoke Zarathustra
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Topic: Philosophical, Religion
Life is an affair of mystery; shared with companions of music, dance and poetry.
- Shah Asad Rizvi
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Topic: Philosophical
Violence begins with the fork.
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Topic: Philosophical
If everyone is a product of this society, who will say the things that need to be said, and do the things that need to be done, without compromise? Truth will never start out popular in a world more concerned with marketability than righteousness. It will initially suffer ridicule and even violence- yet ultimately it is undeniable. All of humanity is living in a dream world, but suffering real consequences.
- Lauryn Hill
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Topic: Philosophical
We are preoccupied with time. If we could learn to love space as deeply as we are now obsessed with time, we might discover a new meaning in the phrase 'to live like men.
- Edward Abbey
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Topic: Philosophical
Slowness means cleaving perfectly to time, so closely that the seconds fall one by one, drop by drop like the steady dripping of a tap on stone. This stretching of time deepens space. It is one of the secrets of walking: a slow approach to landscapes that gradually renders them familiar. Like the regular encounters that deepen friendship.
- Frédéric Gros
A Philosophy of Walking
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Topic: Philosophical
Slice a pear and you will find that its flesh is incandescent white. It glows with inner light. Those who carry a knife and a pear are never afraid of the dark.
- Yann Martel
Beatrice and Virgil
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Topic: Philosophical
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