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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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How small a thought it takes to fill a life.
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Our lives are part of a unique adventure... Nevertheless, most of us think the world is 'normal' and are constantly hunting for something abnormal--like angels or Martians. But that is just because we don't realize the world is a mystery. As for myself, I felt completely different. I saw the world as an amazing dream. I was hunting for some kind of explanation of how everything fit together.
- Jostein Gaarder
The Solitaire Mystery
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If you can't fight and you can't flee, flow.
- Robert Elias M.D.
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Thoughts without content are empty, intuitions without concepts are blind.
- Immanuel Kant
Critique of Pure Reason
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The thoughts of all men arise from the darkness. If you are the movement of your soul, and the cause of that movement precedes you, then how could you ever call your thoughts your own? How could you be anything other than a slave to the darkness that comes before?
- R. Scott Bakker
The Darkness That Comes Before
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I discovered that it is necessary, absolutely necessary, to believe in nothing. That is, we have to believe in something which has no form and no color--something which exists before all forms and colors appear... No matter what god or doctrine you believe in, if you become attached to it, your belief will be based more or less on a self-centered idea.
- Shunryu Suzuki
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songs, to me, were more important than just light entertainment. They were my preceptor and guide into some altered consciousness of reality. Some different republic, some liberated republic... whatever the case, it wasn't that I was anti-popular culture or anything and I had no ambition to stir things up. I just thought of mainstream culture as lame as hell and a big trick. It was like the unbroken sea of frost that lay outside the window and you had to have awkward footgear to walk with.
- Bob Dylan
Chronicles, Volume One
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Truth is neither ojectivity nor the balanced view; truth is a selfless subjectivity.
- Knut Hamsun
Hunger
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Empty is the argument of the philosopher which does not relieve any human suffering.
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We proceeded to make way across the mighty Hooghly River, a monstrous offshoot of the Ganges, where we contemplated for a moment, our thoughts seemingly caught in the roaring southward current; there we gazed, toward where the city transitions into mangrove jungle, and somewhere a bit further to the southwest where all the rivers split infinitely like capillaries, where those famous Bengal tigers trod among the sunderbans. Peering in that direction, Bajju gripped the vertical bars just above the horizontal pedestrian railing, breathing slowly and silently, knees locked, still, despite being on arguably the busiest and loudest bridge in the world.
- Colin Phelan
The Local School
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Absurdity is the ecstasy of intellectualism.
- Criss Jami
Salomé: In Every Inch In Every Mile
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Nothing important is learned; it is simply remembered.
- Carlos Ruiz Zafón
The Angel's Game
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Philosophy, though unable to tell us with certainty what is the true answer to the doubts which it raises, is able to suggest many possiblities which enlarge our thoughts and free them from the tyranny of custom. Thus, while diminishing our feeling of certainty as to what things are, it greatly increases our knowledge as to what the may be; it removes the somewhat arrogant dogmatism of those who have never travelled into the region of liberating doubt, and it keeps alive our sense of wonder by showing familar things in an unfamilar aspect
- Bertrand Russell
The Problems of Philosophy
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Despair is the price one pays for setting oneself an impossible aim. It is, one is told, the unforgivable sin, but it is a sin the corrupt or evil man never practices. He always has hope. He never reaches the freezing-point of knowing absolute failure. Only the man of goodwill carries always in his heart this capacity for damnation.
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Ideas are the source of all things
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The best ideas are common property
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As soon as a religion comes to dominate it has as its opponents all those who would have been its first disciples.
- Friedrich Nietzsche
Human, All Too Human
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But merely being tradition does not make something worthy, Kadash. We can't just assume that because something is old it is right.
- Brandon Sanderson
Oathbringer
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There is but one true philosophical problem and that is suicide.
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Absurdity is one of the most human things about us: a manifestation of our most advanced and interesting characteristics.
- Thomas Nagel
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I have no desire for others to take it on themselves to analyze my thoughts. I am without thoughts. I have never, not even once, acted on the basis of any doctrine or philosophy.I am convinced that those people whom the world considers good and respects are all liars and fakes. I do not trust the world.
- Osamu Dazai
The Setting Sun
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The stone that was rolled before Christ's tomb might appropriately be called the philosopher's stone because its removal gave not only the pharisees but, now for 1800 years, the philosophers so much to think about.
- Soren Kierkegaard
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All the world is queer save thee and me, and even thou art a little queer.
- robert owen
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A Paradox, the doughnut hole. Empty space, once, but now they've learned to market even that. A minus quantity; nothing, rendered edible. I wondered if they might be used-metaphorically, of course-to demonstrate the existence of God. Does naming a sphere of nothingness transmute it into being?
- Margaret Atwood
Der blinde Mörder
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How small a thought it takes to fill a life.
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Our lives are part of a unique adventure... Nevertheless, most of us think the world is 'normal' and are constantly hunting for something abnormal--like angels or Martians. But that is just because we don't realize the world is a mystery. As for myself, I felt completely different. I saw the world as an amazing dream. I was hunting for some kind of explanation of how everything fit together.
- Jostein Gaarder
The Solitaire Mystery
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If you can't fight and you can't flee, flow.
- Robert Elias M.D.
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Thoughts without content are empty, intuitions without concepts are blind.
- Immanuel Kant
Critique of Pure Reason
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The thoughts of all men arise from the darkness. If you are the movement of your soul, and the cause of that movement precedes you, then how could you ever call your thoughts your own? How could you be anything other than a slave to the darkness that comes before?
- R. Scott Bakker
The Darkness That Comes Before
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I discovered that it is necessary, absolutely necessary, to believe in nothing. That is, we have to believe in something which has no form and no color--something which exists before all forms and colors appear... No matter what god or doctrine you believe in, if you become attached to it, your belief will be based more or less on a self-centered idea.
- Shunryu Suzuki
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songs, to me, were more important than just light entertainment. They were my preceptor and guide into some altered consciousness of reality. Some different republic, some liberated republic... whatever the case, it wasn't that I was anti-popular culture or anything and I had no ambition to stir things up. I just thought of mainstream culture as lame as hell and a big trick. It was like the unbroken sea of frost that lay outside the window and you had to have awkward footgear to walk with.
- Bob Dylan
Chronicles, Volume One
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Truth is neither ojectivity nor the balanced view; truth is a selfless subjectivity.
- Knut Hamsun
Hunger
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Empty is the argument of the philosopher which does not relieve any human suffering.
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We proceeded to make way across the mighty Hooghly River, a monstrous offshoot of the Ganges, where we contemplated for a moment, our thoughts seemingly caught in the roaring southward current; there we gazed, toward where the city transitions into mangrove jungle, and somewhere a bit further to the southwest where all the rivers split infinitely like capillaries, where those famous Bengal tigers trod among the sunderbans. Peering in that direction, Bajju gripped the vertical bars just above the horizontal pedestrian railing, breathing slowly and silently, knees locked, still, despite being on arguably the busiest and loudest bridge in the world.
- Colin Phelan
The Local School
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Absurdity is the ecstasy of intellectualism.
- Criss Jami
Salomé: In Every Inch In Every Mile
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Nothing important is learned; it is simply remembered.
- Carlos Ruiz Zafón
The Angel's Game
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Philosophy, though unable to tell us with certainty what is the true answer to the doubts which it raises, is able to suggest many possiblities which enlarge our thoughts and free them from the tyranny of custom. Thus, while diminishing our feeling of certainty as to what things are, it greatly increases our knowledge as to what the may be; it removes the somewhat arrogant dogmatism of those who have never travelled into the region of liberating doubt, and it keeps alive our sense of wonder by showing familar things in an unfamilar aspect
- Bertrand Russell
The Problems of Philosophy
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Despair is the price one pays for setting oneself an impossible aim. It is, one is told, the unforgivable sin, but it is a sin the corrupt or evil man never practices. He always has hope. He never reaches the freezing-point of knowing absolute failure. Only the man of goodwill carries always in his heart this capacity for damnation.
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Ideas are the source of all things
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The best ideas are common property
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As soon as a religion comes to dominate it has as its opponents all those who would have been its first disciples.
- Friedrich Nietzsche
Human, All Too Human
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But merely being tradition does not make something worthy, Kadash. We can't just assume that because something is old it is right.
- Brandon Sanderson
Oathbringer
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There is but one true philosophical problem and that is suicide.
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Absurdity is one of the most human things about us: a manifestation of our most advanced and interesting characteristics.
- Thomas Nagel
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I have no desire for others to take it on themselves to analyze my thoughts. I am without thoughts. I have never, not even once, acted on the basis of any doctrine or philosophy.I am convinced that those people whom the world considers good and respects are all liars and fakes. I do not trust the world.
- Osamu Dazai
The Setting Sun
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The stone that was rolled before Christ's tomb might appropriately be called the philosopher's stone because its removal gave not only the pharisees but, now for 1800 years, the philosophers so much to think about.
- Soren Kierkegaard
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All the world is queer save thee and me, and even thou art a little queer.
- robert owen
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A Paradox, the doughnut hole. Empty space, once, but now they've learned to market even that. A minus quantity; nothing, rendered edible. I wondered if they might be used-metaphorically, of course-to demonstrate the existence of God. Does naming a sphere of nothingness transmute it into being?
- Margaret Atwood
Der blinde Mörder
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How small a thought it takes to fill a life.
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Our lives are part of a unique adventure... Nevertheless, most of us think the world is 'normal' and are constantly hunting for something abnormal--like angels or Martians. But that is just because we don't realize the world is a mystery. As for myself, I felt completely different. I saw the world as an amazing dream. I was hunting for some kind of explanation of how everything fit together.
- Jostein Gaarder
The Solitaire Mystery
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If you can't fight and you can't flee, flow.
- Robert Elias M.D.
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Thoughts without content are empty, intuitions without concepts are blind.
- Immanuel Kant
Critique of Pure Reason
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
The thoughts of all men arise from the darkness. If you are the movement of your soul, and the cause of that movement precedes you, then how could you ever call your thoughts your own? How could you be anything other than a slave to the darkness that comes before?
- R. Scott Bakker
The Darkness That Comes Before
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I discovered that it is necessary, absolutely necessary, to believe in nothing. That is, we have to believe in something which has no form and no color--something which exists before all forms and colors appear... No matter what god or doctrine you believe in, if you become attached to it, your belief will be based more or less on a self-centered idea.
- Shunryu Suzuki
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songs, to me, were more important than just light entertainment. They were my preceptor and guide into some altered consciousness of reality. Some different republic, some liberated republic... whatever the case, it wasn't that I was anti-popular culture or anything and I had no ambition to stir things up. I just thought of mainstream culture as lame as hell and a big trick. It was like the unbroken sea of frost that lay outside the window and you had to have awkward footgear to walk with.
- Bob Dylan
Chronicles, Volume One
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Truth is neither ojectivity nor the balanced view; truth is a selfless subjectivity.
- Knut Hamsun
Hunger
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Empty is the argument of the philosopher which does not relieve any human suffering.
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We proceeded to make way across the mighty Hooghly River, a monstrous offshoot of the Ganges, where we contemplated for a moment, our thoughts seemingly caught in the roaring southward current; there we gazed, toward where the city transitions into mangrove jungle, and somewhere a bit further to the southwest where all the rivers split infinitely like capillaries, where those famous Bengal tigers trod among the sunderbans. Peering in that direction, Bajju gripped the vertical bars just above the horizontal pedestrian railing, breathing slowly and silently, knees locked, still, despite being on arguably the busiest and loudest bridge in the world.
- Colin Phelan
The Local School
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Absurdity is the ecstasy of intellectualism.
- Criss Jami
Salomé: In Every Inch In Every Mile
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Nothing important is learned; it is simply remembered.
- Carlos Ruiz Zafón
The Angel's Game
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Philosophy, though unable to tell us with certainty what is the true answer to the doubts which it raises, is able to suggest many possiblities which enlarge our thoughts and free them from the tyranny of custom. Thus, while diminishing our feeling of certainty as to what things are, it greatly increases our knowledge as to what the may be; it removes the somewhat arrogant dogmatism of those who have never travelled into the region of liberating doubt, and it keeps alive our sense of wonder by showing familar things in an unfamilar aspect
- Bertrand Russell
The Problems of Philosophy
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Despair is the price one pays for setting oneself an impossible aim. It is, one is told, the unforgivable sin, but it is a sin the corrupt or evil man never practices. He always has hope. He never reaches the freezing-point of knowing absolute failure. Only the man of goodwill carries always in his heart this capacity for damnation.
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Ideas are the source of all things
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
The best ideas are common property
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
As soon as a religion comes to dominate it has as its opponents all those who would have been its first disciples.
- Friedrich Nietzsche
Human, All Too Human
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
But merely being tradition does not make something worthy, Kadash. We can't just assume that because something is old it is right.
- Brandon Sanderson
Oathbringer
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
There is but one true philosophical problem and that is suicide.
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Absurdity is one of the most human things about us: a manifestation of our most advanced and interesting characteristics.
- Thomas Nagel
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
I have no desire for others to take it on themselves to analyze my thoughts. I am without thoughts. I have never, not even once, acted on the basis of any doctrine or philosophy.I am convinced that those people whom the world considers good and respects are all liars and fakes. I do not trust the world.
- Osamu Dazai
The Setting Sun
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The stone that was rolled before Christ's tomb might appropriately be called the philosopher's stone because its removal gave not only the pharisees but, now for 1800 years, the philosophers so much to think about.
- Soren Kierkegaard
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
All the world is queer save thee and me, and even thou art a little queer.
- robert owen
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
A Paradox, the doughnut hole. Empty space, once, but now they've learned to market even that. A minus quantity; nothing, rendered edible. I wondered if they might be used-metaphorically, of course-to demonstrate the existence of God. Does naming a sphere of nothingness transmute it into being?
- Margaret Atwood
Der blinde Mörder
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