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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 breathe for the sake of breathing, eat and drink for the sake of eating and drinking, we take shelter for the sake of taking shelter, we study to satisfy our curiosity, we take a walk for the walk. All that's not for the sake of living, it is living. Life is a sincerity.
- Emmanuel Levinas
Existence and Existents
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An honest religious thinker is like a tightrope walker. He almost looks as though he were walking on nothing but air. His support is the slenderest imaginable. And yet it really is possible to walk on it.
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If the meaning of life has become doubtful, if one's relations to others and to oneself do not offer security, then fame is one means to silence one's doubts. It has a function to be compared with that of the Egyptian pyramids or the Christian faith in immortality: it elevates one's individual life from its limitations and instability to the plane of indestructability; if one's name is known to one's contemporaries and if one can hope that it will last for centuries, then one's life has meaning and significance by this very reflection of it in the judgments of others.
- Erich Fromm
Escape from Freedom
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i don't regret the difficulties I experienced; I think they help helped me to become the person I am today. i feel the way a warrior must feel after years of traning; he doesn't remember the details of everything he learned, but he knows how to strike when the time is right
- Paulo Coelho
The Zahir
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Having just enough life to enjoy being dead.
- Jim Holt
Why Does the World Exist?: An Existential Detective Story
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I dislike Nietzsche because he likes the contemplation of pain, because he erects conceit into a duty, because the men whom he most admires are conquerors, whose glory is cleverness in causing men to die.
- Bertrand Russell
A History of Western Philosophy
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I am strangely tired, not from having talked so much but at the mere thought of what I still have to say
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Philosophy, from the earliest times, has made greater claims, and achieved fewer results, than any other branch of learning.
- Bertrand Russell
Our Knowledge of the External World
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If the ordinary wage-earner worked four hours a day, there would be enough for everybody and no unemployment -- assuming a certain very moderate amount of sensible organization. This idea shocks the well-to-do, because they are convinced that the poor would not know how to use so much leisure. In America men often work long hours even when they are well off; such men, naturally, are indignant at the idea of leisure for wage-earners, except as the grim punishment of unemployment; in fact, they dislike leisure even for their sons.
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Clean your home first before complaining about others.
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For a game, you don’t need a teacher.
- Dejan Stojanovic
The Sun Watches the Sun
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We youths say “like” all the time because we mistrust reality.
- James S. Kunen
The Strawberry Statement: Notes of a College Revolutionary
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The aim of science is to seek the simplest explanations of complex facts. We are apt to fall into the error of thinking that the facts are simple because simplicity is the goal of our quest. The guiding motto in the life of every natural philosopher should be, 'Seek simplicity and distrust it.
- Alfred North Whitehead
The Concept of Nature: The Tarner Lectures Delivered in Trinity College, 11/1919
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Wherever you find the greatest good, you will find the greatest evil, because evil loves paradise as much as good.
- Wallace Stegner
All the Little Live Things
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Of Equality--as if it harm'd me, giving others the same chances and rights as myself--as if it were not indispensable to my own rights that others possess the same.
- Walt Whitman
Leaves of Grass
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It is remarkable how long men will believe in the bottomlessness of a pond without taking the trouble to sound it.
- Henry David Thoreau
Walden & Resistance to Civil Government
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A sin is nothing more than regret. Not for doing it once, but doing it again when you know you’re going to regret it.
- Carroll Bryant
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There are two mindsets people tend to have: explorer or settler. Our society has a “settler” mindset, our end goals are “finalizing” (home, marriage, career, etc.) in a world that was made for evolution, in selves that do nothing but grow and expand and change. People with “explorer” mindsets are able to actually enjoy what they have and experience it fully because they are inherently unattached
- Brianna Wiest
101 Essays That Will Change The Way You Think
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Strong souls face painful tragedies because the universe honours their strength by pulling out its most fearsome weapons against them.
- Shunya
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Treat everyone you meet as if they were you.
- Doug Dillon
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Irrational expectations are at the root of most human suffering.
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The ruling classes use broken and smashed up childhoods as weaponised instruments of domination around the world. This is why the government has no incentive to end child abuse; because the government needs abuse victims as enforcers.
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Through synergy of intellect, artistry and grace came into existence the blessing of a dancer.
- Shah Asad Rizvi
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Every heart, it have its own ache.
- Lynn Cullen
The Creation of Eve
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We breathe for the sake of breathing, eat and drink for the sake of eating and drinking, we take shelter for the sake of taking shelter, we study to satisfy our curiosity, we take a walk for the walk. All that's not for the sake of living, it is living. Life is a sincerity.
- Emmanuel Levinas
Existence and Existents
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An honest religious thinker is like a tightrope walker. He almost looks as though he were walking on nothing but air. His support is the slenderest imaginable. And yet it really is possible to walk on it.
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If the meaning of life has become doubtful, if one's relations to others and to oneself do not offer security, then fame is one means to silence one's doubts. It has a function to be compared with that of the Egyptian pyramids or the Christian faith in immortality: it elevates one's individual life from its limitations and instability to the plane of indestructability; if one's name is known to one's contemporaries and if one can hope that it will last for centuries, then one's life has meaning and significance by this very reflection of it in the judgments of others.
- Erich Fromm
Escape from Freedom
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i don't regret the difficulties I experienced; I think they help helped me to become the person I am today. i feel the way a warrior must feel after years of traning; he doesn't remember the details of everything he learned, but he knows how to strike when the time is right
- Paulo Coelho
The Zahir
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Having just enough life to enjoy being dead.
- Jim Holt
Why Does the World Exist?: An Existential Detective Story
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I dislike Nietzsche because he likes the contemplation of pain, because he erects conceit into a duty, because the men whom he most admires are conquerors, whose glory is cleverness in causing men to die.
- Bertrand Russell
A History of Western Philosophy
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I am strangely tired, not from having talked so much but at the mere thought of what I still have to say
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Philosophy, from the earliest times, has made greater claims, and achieved fewer results, than any other branch of learning.
- Bertrand Russell
Our Knowledge of the External World
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If the ordinary wage-earner worked four hours a day, there would be enough for everybody and no unemployment -- assuming a certain very moderate amount of sensible organization. This idea shocks the well-to-do, because they are convinced that the poor would not know how to use so much leisure. In America men often work long hours even when they are well off; such men, naturally, are indignant at the idea of leisure for wage-earners, except as the grim punishment of unemployment; in fact, they dislike leisure even for their sons.
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Clean your home first before complaining about others.
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For a game, you don’t need a teacher.
- Dejan Stojanovic
The Sun Watches the Sun
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We youths say “like” all the time because we mistrust reality.
- James S. Kunen
The Strawberry Statement: Notes of a College Revolutionary
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The aim of science is to seek the simplest explanations of complex facts. We are apt to fall into the error of thinking that the facts are simple because simplicity is the goal of our quest. The guiding motto in the life of every natural philosopher should be, 'Seek simplicity and distrust it.
- Alfred North Whitehead
The Concept of Nature: The Tarner Lectures Delivered in Trinity College, 11/1919
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Wherever you find the greatest good, you will find the greatest evil, because evil loves paradise as much as good.
- Wallace Stegner
All the Little Live Things
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Of Equality--as if it harm'd me, giving others the same chances and rights as myself--as if it were not indispensable to my own rights that others possess the same.
- Walt Whitman
Leaves of Grass
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It is remarkable how long men will believe in the bottomlessness of a pond without taking the trouble to sound it.
- Henry David Thoreau
Walden & Resistance to Civil Government
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A sin is nothing more than regret. Not for doing it once, but doing it again when you know you’re going to regret it.
- Carroll Bryant
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There are two mindsets people tend to have: explorer or settler. Our society has a “settler” mindset, our end goals are “finalizing” (home, marriage, career, etc.) in a world that was made for evolution, in selves that do nothing but grow and expand and change. People with “explorer” mindsets are able to actually enjoy what they have and experience it fully because they are inherently unattached
- Brianna Wiest
101 Essays That Will Change The Way You Think
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Strong souls face painful tragedies because the universe honours their strength by pulling out its most fearsome weapons against them.
- Shunya
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Treat everyone you meet as if they were you.
- Doug Dillon
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Irrational expectations are at the root of most human suffering.
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The ruling classes use broken and smashed up childhoods as weaponised instruments of domination around the world. This is why the government has no incentive to end child abuse; because the government needs abuse victims as enforcers.
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Through synergy of intellect, artistry and grace came into existence the blessing of a dancer.
- Shah Asad Rizvi
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Every heart, it have its own ache.
- Lynn Cullen
The Creation of Eve
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We breathe for the sake of breathing, eat and drink for the sake of eating and drinking, we take shelter for the sake of taking shelter, we study to satisfy our curiosity, we take a walk for the walk. All that's not for the sake of living, it is living. Life is a sincerity.
- Emmanuel Levinas
Existence and Existents
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An honest religious thinker is like a tightrope walker. He almost looks as though he were walking on nothing but air. His support is the slenderest imaginable. And yet it really is possible to walk on it.
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
If the meaning of life has become doubtful, if one's relations to others and to oneself do not offer security, then fame is one means to silence one's doubts. It has a function to be compared with that of the Egyptian pyramids or the Christian faith in immortality: it elevates one's individual life from its limitations and instability to the plane of indestructability; if one's name is known to one's contemporaries and if one can hope that it will last for centuries, then one's life has meaning and significance by this very reflection of it in the judgments of others.
- Erich Fromm
Escape from Freedom
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i don't regret the difficulties I experienced; I think they help helped me to become the person I am today. i feel the way a warrior must feel after years of traning; he doesn't remember the details of everything he learned, but he knows how to strike when the time is right
- Paulo Coelho
The Zahir
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Having just enough life to enjoy being dead.
- Jim Holt
Why Does the World Exist?: An Existential Detective Story
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
I dislike Nietzsche because he likes the contemplation of pain, because he erects conceit into a duty, because the men whom he most admires are conquerors, whose glory is cleverness in causing men to die.
- Bertrand Russell
A History of Western Philosophy
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
I am strangely tired, not from having talked so much but at the mere thought of what I still have to say
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Philosophy, from the earliest times, has made greater claims, and achieved fewer results, than any other branch of learning.
- Bertrand Russell
Our Knowledge of the External World
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
If the ordinary wage-earner worked four hours a day, there would be enough for everybody and no unemployment -- assuming a certain very moderate amount of sensible organization. This idea shocks the well-to-do, because they are convinced that the poor would not know how to use so much leisure. In America men often work long hours even when they are well off; such men, naturally, are indignant at the idea of leisure for wage-earners, except as the grim punishment of unemployment; in fact, they dislike leisure even for their sons.
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Clean your home first before complaining about others.
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
For a game, you don’t need a teacher.
- Dejan Stojanovic
The Sun Watches the Sun
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
We youths say “like” all the time because we mistrust reality.
- James S. Kunen
The Strawberry Statement: Notes of a College Revolutionary
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
The aim of science is to seek the simplest explanations of complex facts. We are apt to fall into the error of thinking that the facts are simple because simplicity is the goal of our quest. The guiding motto in the life of every natural philosopher should be, 'Seek simplicity and distrust it.
- Alfred North Whitehead
The Concept of Nature: The Tarner Lectures Delivered in Trinity College, 11/1919
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Wherever you find the greatest good, you will find the greatest evil, because evil loves paradise as much as good.
- Wallace Stegner
All the Little Live Things
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Of Equality--as if it harm'd me, giving others the same chances and rights as myself--as if it were not indispensable to my own rights that others possess the same.
- Walt Whitman
Leaves of Grass
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
It is remarkable how long men will believe in the bottomlessness of a pond without taking the trouble to sound it.
- Henry David Thoreau
Walden & Resistance to Civil Government
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A sin is nothing more than regret. Not for doing it once, but doing it again when you know you’re going to regret it.
- Carroll Bryant
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
There are two mindsets people tend to have: explorer or settler. Our society has a “settler” mindset, our end goals are “finalizing” (home, marriage, career, etc.) in a world that was made for evolution, in selves that do nothing but grow and expand and change. People with “explorer” mindsets are able to actually enjoy what they have and experience it fully because they are inherently unattached
- Brianna Wiest
101 Essays That Will Change The Way You Think
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Strong souls face painful tragedies because the universe honours their strength by pulling out its most fearsome weapons against them.
- Shunya
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Treat everyone you meet as if they were you.
- Doug Dillon
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Irrational expectations are at the root of most human suffering.
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
The ruling classes use broken and smashed up childhoods as weaponised instruments of domination around the world. This is why the government has no incentive to end child abuse; because the government needs abuse victims as enforcers.
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Through synergy of intellect, artistry and grace came into existence the blessing of a dancer.
- Shah Asad Rizvi
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Every heart, it have its own ache.
- Lynn Cullen
The Creation of Eve
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