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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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We're ostriches and the whole world is sand.
- Jim Butcher
Small Favor
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Reality is harsh. It can be cruel and ugly. Yet no matter how much we grieve over our environment and circumstances nothing will change. What is important is not to be defeated, to forge ahead bravely. If we do this, a path will open before us.
- Daisaku Ikeda
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We live in deeds not years In thoughts not breaths In feelings not figures on a dial. We should count time by heart throbs. He most lives who thinks most, feels noblest, acts the best.
- Philip James Bailey
Festus: A Poem
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Deliverance is not for me in renunciation. I feel the embrace of freedom in a thousand bonds of delight.
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Yet I'm sure there's something more to be read in a man. People dare not -- they dare not turn the page. The laws of mimicry -- I call them the laws of fear. People are afraid to find themselves alone, and don't find themselves at all. I hate this moral agoraphobia -- it's the worst kind of cowardice. You can't create something without being alone. But who's trying to create here? What seems different in yourself: that's the one rare thing you possess, the one thing which gives each of us his worth; and that's just what we try to suppress. We imitate. And we claim to love life.
- André Gide
The Immoralist
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Someone said to me once that a cigarette at the right moment is better than all the ideals in the world.
- Erich Maria Remarque
Flotsam
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It is more satisfying to sacrifice oneself for the poor victim than to enable the other to overcome their victim status and perhaps become even more succesfull than ourselves
- Slavoj Žižek
Living in the End Times
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From a certain point onward there is no longer any turning back.
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You cannot connect with anyone except through reality.
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Few things are more deceptive than memories.
- Carlos Ruiz Zafón
The Shadow of the Wind
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Crazy Horse dreamed and went into the world where there is nothing but the spirits of all things. That is the real world that is behind this one, and everything we see here is something like a shadow from that one.
- Black Elk
Black Elk Speaks: Being the Life Story of a Holy Man of the Oglala Sioux
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The best things in life are crazy.
- Emme Rollins
Dear Rockstar
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Man's naked form belongs to no particular moment in history; it is eternal, and can be looked upon with joy by the people of all ages.
- Auguste Rodin
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I have two enemies in all the world,
Two twins, inseparably fused:
The hunger of the hungry and the fullness of the full.
- Marina Tsvetaeva
Selected Poems
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It's the truth, even if it didn't happen...

...if they don't exist, how can a man see them?
- Ken Kesey
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
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And this is the forbidden truth, the unspeakable taboo - that evil is not always repellent but frequently attractive; that it has the power to make of us not simply victims, as nature and accident do, but active accomplices.
- Joyce Carol Oates
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Skepticism is the agent of reason against organized irrationalism--and is therefore one of the keys to human social and civic decency.
- Stephen Jay Gould
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The free mind, unafraid of labor, presses on to attain the good.
- Laura Cereta
Collected Letters of a Renaissance Feminist
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Men, too, secrete the inhuman. At certain moments of lucidity, the mechanical aspect of their gestures, their meaningless pantomime makes silly everything that surrounds them. A man is talking on the telephone behind a glass partition; you cannot hear him, but you see his incomprehensible dumb show: you wonder why he is alive. This discomfort in the face of man’s own inhumanity, this incalculable tumble before the image of what we are, this “nausea,” as a writer of today calls it, is also the absurd.
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For Marx, the only thing that motivates humans is money. For Freud, it’s libido. And for Schopenhauer, it is the blind metaphysical will. All are horribly wrong. More than anything, man seeks meaning in his life. And in that meaning, he seeks superiority over others.
- Abhaidev
The Influencer: Speed Must Have a Limit
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You don't seem mad at all,' she said.

But I am, although I'm undergoing a cure, because my problem is that I lack a particular chemical. However, while I hope that the chemical gets rid of my chronic depression, I want to continue being mad, living life the way I dream it, and not the way other people want it to be. Do you know what exists out there, beyond the walls of Villete?
- Paulo Coelho
Veronika Decides to Die
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Love, I think, is a gateway to the world, not an escape from it.
- Mark Doty
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The things that pose the greatest threats to your survival are the most real things.
- Jordan B. Peterson
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Is it possible for a man to move the earth? Yes; but he must first find out another earth to stand upon.
- Jeremy Bentham
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We're ostriches and the whole world is sand.
- Jim Butcher
Small Favor
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Reality is harsh. It can be cruel and ugly. Yet no matter how much we grieve over our environment and circumstances nothing will change. What is important is not to be defeated, to forge ahead bravely. If we do this, a path will open before us.
- Daisaku Ikeda
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We live in deeds not years In thoughts not breaths In feelings not figures on a dial. We should count time by heart throbs. He most lives who thinks most, feels noblest, acts the best.
- Philip James Bailey
Festus: A Poem
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Deliverance is not for me in renunciation. I feel the embrace of freedom in a thousand bonds of delight.
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Yet I'm sure there's something more to be read in a man. People dare not -- they dare not turn the page. The laws of mimicry -- I call them the laws of fear. People are afraid to find themselves alone, and don't find themselves at all. I hate this moral agoraphobia -- it's the worst kind of cowardice. You can't create something without being alone. But who's trying to create here? What seems different in yourself: that's the one rare thing you possess, the one thing which gives each of us his worth; and that's just what we try to suppress. We imitate. And we claim to love life.
- André Gide
The Immoralist
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Someone said to me once that a cigarette at the right moment is better than all the ideals in the world.
- Erich Maria Remarque
Flotsam
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It is more satisfying to sacrifice oneself for the poor victim than to enable the other to overcome their victim status and perhaps become even more succesfull than ourselves
- Slavoj Žižek
Living in the End Times
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From a certain point onward there is no longer any turning back.
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You cannot connect with anyone except through reality.
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Few things are more deceptive than memories.
- Carlos Ruiz Zafón
The Shadow of the Wind
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Crazy Horse dreamed and went into the world where there is nothing but the spirits of all things. That is the real world that is behind this one, and everything we see here is something like a shadow from that one.
- Black Elk
Black Elk Speaks: Being the Life Story of a Holy Man of the Oglala Sioux
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The best things in life are crazy.
- Emme Rollins
Dear Rockstar
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Man's naked form belongs to no particular moment in history; it is eternal, and can be looked upon with joy by the people of all ages.
- Auguste Rodin
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I have two enemies in all the world,
Two twins, inseparably fused:
The hunger of the hungry and the fullness of the full.
- Marina Tsvetaeva
Selected Poems
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It's the truth, even if it didn't happen...

...if they don't exist, how can a man see them?
- Ken Kesey
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
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And this is the forbidden truth, the unspeakable taboo - that evil is not always repellent but frequently attractive; that it has the power to make of us not simply victims, as nature and accident do, but active accomplices.
- Joyce Carol Oates
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Skepticism is the agent of reason against organized irrationalism--and is therefore one of the keys to human social and civic decency.
- Stephen Jay Gould
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The free mind, unafraid of labor, presses on to attain the good.
- Laura Cereta
Collected Letters of a Renaissance Feminist
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Men, too, secrete the inhuman. At certain moments of lucidity, the mechanical aspect of their gestures, their meaningless pantomime makes silly everything that surrounds them. A man is talking on the telephone behind a glass partition; you cannot hear him, but you see his incomprehensible dumb show: you wonder why he is alive. This discomfort in the face of man’s own inhumanity, this incalculable tumble before the image of what we are, this “nausea,” as a writer of today calls it, is also the absurd.
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For Marx, the only thing that motivates humans is money. For Freud, it’s libido. And for Schopenhauer, it is the blind metaphysical will. All are horribly wrong. More than anything, man seeks meaning in his life. And in that meaning, he seeks superiority over others.
- Abhaidev
The Influencer: Speed Must Have a Limit
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You don't seem mad at all,' she said.

But I am, although I'm undergoing a cure, because my problem is that I lack a particular chemical. However, while I hope that the chemical gets rid of my chronic depression, I want to continue being mad, living life the way I dream it, and not the way other people want it to be. Do you know what exists out there, beyond the walls of Villete?
- Paulo Coelho
Veronika Decides to Die
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Love, I think, is a gateway to the world, not an escape from it.
- Mark Doty
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The things that pose the greatest threats to your survival are the most real things.
- Jordan B. Peterson
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Is it possible for a man to move the earth? Yes; but he must first find out another earth to stand upon.
- Jeremy Bentham
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We're ostriches and the whole world is sand.
- Jim Butcher
Small Favor
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Reality is harsh. It can be cruel and ugly. Yet no matter how much we grieve over our environment and circumstances nothing will change. What is important is not to be defeated, to forge ahead bravely. If we do this, a path will open before us.
- Daisaku Ikeda
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
We live in deeds not years In thoughts not breaths In feelings not figures on a dial. We should count time by heart throbs. He most lives who thinks most, feels noblest, acts the best.
- Philip James Bailey
Festus: A Poem
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Deliverance is not for me in renunciation. I feel the embrace of freedom in a thousand bonds of delight.
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Yet I'm sure there's something more to be read in a man. People dare not -- they dare not turn the page. The laws of mimicry -- I call them the laws of fear. People are afraid to find themselves alone, and don't find themselves at all. I hate this moral agoraphobia -- it's the worst kind of cowardice. You can't create something without being alone. But who's trying to create here? What seems different in yourself: that's the one rare thing you possess, the one thing which gives each of us his worth; and that's just what we try to suppress. We imitate. And we claim to love life.
- André Gide
The Immoralist
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Someone said to me once that a cigarette at the right moment is better than all the ideals in the world.
- Erich Maria Remarque
Flotsam
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It is more satisfying to sacrifice oneself for the poor victim than to enable the other to overcome their victim status and perhaps become even more succesfull than ourselves
- Slavoj Žižek
Living in the End Times
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
From a certain point onward there is no longer any turning back.
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
You cannot connect with anyone except through reality.
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Few things are more deceptive than memories.
- Carlos Ruiz Zafón
The Shadow of the Wind
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Crazy Horse dreamed and went into the world where there is nothing but the spirits of all things. That is the real world that is behind this one, and everything we see here is something like a shadow from that one.
- Black Elk
Black Elk Speaks: Being the Life Story of a Holy Man of the Oglala Sioux
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
The best things in life are crazy.
- Emme Rollins
Dear Rockstar
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Man's naked form belongs to no particular moment in history; it is eternal, and can be looked upon with joy by the people of all ages.
- Auguste Rodin
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
I have two enemies in all the world,
Two twins, inseparably fused:
The hunger of the hungry and the fullness of the full.
- Marina Tsvetaeva
Selected Poems
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
It's the truth, even if it didn't happen...

...if they don't exist, how can a man see them?
- Ken Kesey
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
And this is the forbidden truth, the unspeakable taboo - that evil is not always repellent but frequently attractive; that it has the power to make of us not simply victims, as nature and accident do, but active accomplices.
- Joyce Carol Oates
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Skepticism is the agent of reason against organized irrationalism--and is therefore one of the keys to human social and civic decency.
- Stephen Jay Gould
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
The free mind, unafraid of labor, presses on to attain the good.
- Laura Cereta
Collected Letters of a Renaissance Feminist
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Men, too, secrete the inhuman. At certain moments of lucidity, the mechanical aspect of their gestures, their meaningless pantomime makes silly everything that surrounds them. A man is talking on the telephone behind a glass partition; you cannot hear him, but you see his incomprehensible dumb show: you wonder why he is alive. This discomfort in the face of man’s own inhumanity, this incalculable tumble before the image of what we are, this “nausea,” as a writer of today calls it, is also the absurd.
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
For Marx, the only thing that motivates humans is money. For Freud, it’s libido. And for Schopenhauer, it is the blind metaphysical will. All are horribly wrong. More than anything, man seeks meaning in his life. And in that meaning, he seeks superiority over others.
- Abhaidev
The Influencer: Speed Must Have a Limit
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
You don't seem mad at all,' she said.

But I am, although I'm undergoing a cure, because my problem is that I lack a particular chemical. However, while I hope that the chemical gets rid of my chronic depression, I want to continue being mad, living life the way I dream it, and not the way other people want it to be. Do you know what exists out there, beyond the walls of Villete?
- Paulo Coelho
Veronika Decides to Die
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Love, I think, is a gateway to the world, not an escape from it.
- Mark Doty
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
The things that pose the greatest threats to your survival are the most real things.
- Jordan B. Peterson
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Is it possible for a man to move the earth? Yes; but he must first find out another earth to stand upon.
- Jeremy Bentham
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