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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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The sole philosophy open to those who doubt the possibility of truth is absolute silence -- even mental.
- Jacques Maritain
An Introduction to Philosophy
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...as I get older, I find myself insisting on my right to be philosophically sloppy.
- Helen Simonson
Major Pettigrew's Last Stand
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Light in comparison with darkness is a void.
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Being established in my life, buttressed by my thinking nature, fastened down in this transcendental field which was opened for me by my first perception, and in which all absence is merely the obverse of a presence, all silence a modality of the being of sound, I enjoy a sort of ubiquity and theoretical eternity, I feel destined to move in a flow of endless life, neither the beginning nor the end of which I can experience in thought, since it is my living self who think of them, and since thus my life always precedes and survives itself.
- Maurice Merleau-Ponty
Phenomenology of Perception
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Art must take reality by surprise.
- Françoise Sagan
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We know that the destruction of an ideal does not necessarily produce a truth, but only one more piece of ignorance; it is the extension of our ‘empty space,’ an increase in our ‘waste.
- Friedrich Nietzsche
The Will to Power
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✨ “Between logic and longing lies the heart’s truest memory — the kind that even time cannot erase.
- Nevine Essam
When Circuits Remember
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Some truths don’t need to be spoken — they echo in silence, between the words we never dared to say.
- Nevine Essam
GRAY WORDS : Emotional / Literary Fiction
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He was thinking that the cities, perhaps, needed to look into the future even more than the country did. They should look ahead for forty, eighty, one hundred and sixty years, to a strong and healthy plain of population - or to an overworked, weakened, underfed, and infertile desert.
- Jim Thompson
Heed the Thunder
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Nothing, to my way of thinking, is a better proof of a well ordered mind than a man’s ability to stop just where he is and pass some time in his own company.
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Man can be master of nothing while he fears death, but he who does not fear it possesses all. If there were no suffering, man would not know his limitations, would not know himself. The hardest thing is to be able in your soul to unite the meaning of all. To unite all? Pierre asked himself. "No, not to unite. Thoughts cannot be united, but to harness all these thoughts together is what we need! Yes, one must harness them, must harness them!
- Leo Tolstoy
War and Peace
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Let us cherish and love old age; for it is full of pleasure if one knows how to use it. Fruits are most welcome when almost over; youth is most charming at its close; the last drink delights the toper, the glass which souses him and puts the finishing touch on his drunkenness. Each pleasure reserves to the end the greatest delights which it contains. Life is most delightful when it is on the downward slope, but has not yet reached the abrupt decline.
- Seneca
Letters from a Stoic
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I refuse to let the standards of evil people chip away at my capacity for integrity.
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We are seeds as well as parasites to the earth. We can either give or take, depending on our perception of growth.
- Zephyr McIntyre
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When the road ahead seems impossible, start the engine
- Benny Bellamacina
Piddly Poems for Children: Volume 1
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In the liquid amber within the ivory porcelain, the initiated may touch the sweet reticence of Confucius, the piquancy of Laotse, and the ethereal aroma of Sakyamuni himself.
- Kakuzo Okakura
The Book of Tea
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Laughter is the antidote to existential pain
- S. Spencer Baker
Slabscape: Reset
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The best of humanity's recorded history is a creative balance between horrors endured and victories achieved, and so it was during the Harlem Renaissance.
- Aberjhani
Journey through the Power of the Rainbow: Quotations from a Life Made Out of Poetry
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I am serving the purpose for which I was designed, therefore I am satisfied with my existence.
- Kevin J Anderson
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If you think fate is fickle, try tempting it
- S. Spencer Baker
Slabscape: Reset
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For a long time now a hint of aversion had lain on everything he did and experienced, a shadow of impotence and loneliness, an all-encompassing distaste for which he could not find the complementary inclination. He felt at times as though he had been born with a talent for which there was at present no objective.
- Robert Musil
The Man Without Qualities: Volume I
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Any game where the goal is to build territory has to be beautiful. There may be phases of combat, but they are only means to an end, to allow your territory to survive. One of the most extraordinary aspects of the game of go is that it has been proven that in order to win, you must live, but you must also allow the other player to live. Players who are too greedy will lose: it is a subtle game of equilibrium, where you have to get ahead without crushing the other player. In the end, life and death are only the consequences of how well or how poorly you have made your construction. This is what one of Taniguchi's characters says: you live, you die, these are consequences. It's a proverb for playing go, and for life.
- Muriel Barbery
The Elegance of the Hedgehog
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Business people - Your business - is your greatest prejudice: it ties you to your locality, to the company you keep, to the inclinations you feel. Diligent in business - but indolent in spirit, content with your inadequacy, and with the cloak of duty hung over this contentment: that is how you live, that is how you want your children to live!
- Friedrich Nietzsche
Daybreak: Thoughts on the Prejudices of Morality
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We are the lucky ones for we shall die, as there is an infinite number of possible forms of DNA all but a few billions of which will never burst into consciousness.
- Frank Close
The Void
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The sole philosophy open to those who doubt the possibility of truth is absolute silence -- even mental.
- Jacques Maritain
An Introduction to Philosophy
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...as I get older, I find myself insisting on my right to be philosophically sloppy.
- Helen Simonson
Major Pettigrew's Last Stand
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Light in comparison with darkness is a void.
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Being established in my life, buttressed by my thinking nature, fastened down in this transcendental field which was opened for me by my first perception, and in which all absence is merely the obverse of a presence, all silence a modality of the being of sound, I enjoy a sort of ubiquity and theoretical eternity, I feel destined to move in a flow of endless life, neither the beginning nor the end of which I can experience in thought, since it is my living self who think of them, and since thus my life always precedes and survives itself.
- Maurice Merleau-Ponty
Phenomenology of Perception
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Art must take reality by surprise.
- Françoise Sagan
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We know that the destruction of an ideal does not necessarily produce a truth, but only one more piece of ignorance; it is the extension of our ‘empty space,’ an increase in our ‘waste.
- Friedrich Nietzsche
The Will to Power
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✨ “Between logic and longing lies the heart’s truest memory — the kind that even time cannot erase.
- Nevine Essam
When Circuits Remember
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Some truths don’t need to be spoken — they echo in silence, between the words we never dared to say.
- Nevine Essam
GRAY WORDS : Emotional / Literary Fiction
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He was thinking that the cities, perhaps, needed to look into the future even more than the country did. They should look ahead for forty, eighty, one hundred and sixty years, to a strong and healthy plain of population - or to an overworked, weakened, underfed, and infertile desert.
- Jim Thompson
Heed the Thunder
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Nothing, to my way of thinking, is a better proof of a well ordered mind than a man’s ability to stop just where he is and pass some time in his own company.
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Man can be master of nothing while he fears death, but he who does not fear it possesses all. If there were no suffering, man would not know his limitations, would not know himself. The hardest thing is to be able in your soul to unite the meaning of all. To unite all? Pierre asked himself. "No, not to unite. Thoughts cannot be united, but to harness all these thoughts together is what we need! Yes, one must harness them, must harness them!
- Leo Tolstoy
War and Peace
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Let us cherish and love old age; for it is full of pleasure if one knows how to use it. Fruits are most welcome when almost over; youth is most charming at its close; the last drink delights the toper, the glass which souses him and puts the finishing touch on his drunkenness. Each pleasure reserves to the end the greatest delights which it contains. Life is most delightful when it is on the downward slope, but has not yet reached the abrupt decline.
- Seneca
Letters from a Stoic
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I refuse to let the standards of evil people chip away at my capacity for integrity.
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We are seeds as well as parasites to the earth. We can either give or take, depending on our perception of growth.
- Zephyr McIntyre
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When the road ahead seems impossible, start the engine
- Benny Bellamacina
Piddly Poems for Children: Volume 1
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In the liquid amber within the ivory porcelain, the initiated may touch the sweet reticence of Confucius, the piquancy of Laotse, and the ethereal aroma of Sakyamuni himself.
- Kakuzo Okakura
The Book of Tea
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Laughter is the antidote to existential pain
- S. Spencer Baker
Slabscape: Reset
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
The best of humanity's recorded history is a creative balance between horrors endured and victories achieved, and so it was during the Harlem Renaissance.
- Aberjhani
Journey through the Power of the Rainbow: Quotations from a Life Made Out of Poetry
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I am serving the purpose for which I was designed, therefore I am satisfied with my existence.
- Kevin J Anderson
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If you think fate is fickle, try tempting it
- S. Spencer Baker
Slabscape: Reset
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For a long time now a hint of aversion had lain on everything he did and experienced, a shadow of impotence and loneliness, an all-encompassing distaste for which he could not find the complementary inclination. He felt at times as though he had been born with a talent for which there was at present no objective.
- Robert Musil
The Man Without Qualities: Volume I
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Any game where the goal is to build territory has to be beautiful. There may be phases of combat, but they are only means to an end, to allow your territory to survive. One of the most extraordinary aspects of the game of go is that it has been proven that in order to win, you must live, but you must also allow the other player to live. Players who are too greedy will lose: it is a subtle game of equilibrium, where you have to get ahead without crushing the other player. In the end, life and death are only the consequences of how well or how poorly you have made your construction. This is what one of Taniguchi's characters says: you live, you die, these are consequences. It's a proverb for playing go, and for life.
- Muriel Barbery
The Elegance of the Hedgehog
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Business people - Your business - is your greatest prejudice: it ties you to your locality, to the company you keep, to the inclinations you feel. Diligent in business - but indolent in spirit, content with your inadequacy, and with the cloak of duty hung over this contentment: that is how you live, that is how you want your children to live!
- Friedrich Nietzsche
Daybreak: Thoughts on the Prejudices of Morality
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We are the lucky ones for we shall die, as there is an infinite number of possible forms of DNA all but a few billions of which will never burst into consciousness.
- Frank Close
The Void
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The sole philosophy open to those who doubt the possibility of truth is absolute silence -- even mental.
- Jacques Maritain
An Introduction to Philosophy
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
...as I get older, I find myself insisting on my right to be philosophically sloppy.
- Helen Simonson
Major Pettigrew's Last Stand
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Light in comparison with darkness is a void.
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Being established in my life, buttressed by my thinking nature, fastened down in this transcendental field which was opened for me by my first perception, and in which all absence is merely the obverse of a presence, all silence a modality of the being of sound, I enjoy a sort of ubiquity and theoretical eternity, I feel destined to move in a flow of endless life, neither the beginning nor the end of which I can experience in thought, since it is my living self who think of them, and since thus my life always precedes and survives itself.
- Maurice Merleau-Ponty
Phenomenology of Perception
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Art must take reality by surprise.
- Françoise Sagan
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
We know that the destruction of an ideal does not necessarily produce a truth, but only one more piece of ignorance; it is the extension of our ‘empty space,’ an increase in our ‘waste.
- Friedrich Nietzsche
The Will to Power
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
✨ “Between logic and longing lies the heart’s truest memory — the kind that even time cannot erase.
- Nevine Essam
When Circuits Remember
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Some truths don’t need to be spoken — they echo in silence, between the words we never dared to say.
- Nevine Essam
GRAY WORDS : Emotional / Literary Fiction
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
He was thinking that the cities, perhaps, needed to look into the future even more than the country did. They should look ahead for forty, eighty, one hundred and sixty years, to a strong and healthy plain of population - or to an overworked, weakened, underfed, and infertile desert.
- Jim Thompson
Heed the Thunder
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Nothing, to my way of thinking, is a better proof of a well ordered mind than a man’s ability to stop just where he is and pass some time in his own company.
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Man can be master of nothing while he fears death, but he who does not fear it possesses all. If there were no suffering, man would not know his limitations, would not know himself. The hardest thing is to be able in your soul to unite the meaning of all. To unite all? Pierre asked himself. "No, not to unite. Thoughts cannot be united, but to harness all these thoughts together is what we need! Yes, one must harness them, must harness them!
- Leo Tolstoy
War and Peace
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Let us cherish and love old age; for it is full of pleasure if one knows how to use it. Fruits are most welcome when almost over; youth is most charming at its close; the last drink delights the toper, the glass which souses him and puts the finishing touch on his drunkenness. Each pleasure reserves to the end the greatest delights which it contains. Life is most delightful when it is on the downward slope, but has not yet reached the abrupt decline.
- Seneca
Letters from a Stoic
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
I refuse to let the standards of evil people chip away at my capacity for integrity.
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
We are seeds as well as parasites to the earth. We can either give or take, depending on our perception of growth.
- Zephyr McIntyre
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
When the road ahead seems impossible, start the engine
- Benny Bellamacina
Piddly Poems for Children: Volume 1
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
In the liquid amber within the ivory porcelain, the initiated may touch the sweet reticence of Confucius, the piquancy of Laotse, and the ethereal aroma of Sakyamuni himself.
- Kakuzo Okakura
The Book of Tea
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Laughter is the antidote to existential pain
- S. Spencer Baker
Slabscape: Reset
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
The best of humanity's recorded history is a creative balance between horrors endured and victories achieved, and so it was during the Harlem Renaissance.
- Aberjhani
Journey through the Power of the Rainbow: Quotations from a Life Made Out of Poetry
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
I am serving the purpose for which I was designed, therefore I am satisfied with my existence.
- Kevin J Anderson
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
If you think fate is fickle, try tempting it
- S. Spencer Baker
Slabscape: Reset
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
For a long time now a hint of aversion had lain on everything he did and experienced, a shadow of impotence and loneliness, an all-encompassing distaste for which he could not find the complementary inclination. He felt at times as though he had been born with a talent for which there was at present no objective.
- Robert Musil
The Man Without Qualities: Volume I
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Any game where the goal is to build territory has to be beautiful. There may be phases of combat, but they are only means to an end, to allow your territory to survive. One of the most extraordinary aspects of the game of go is that it has been proven that in order to win, you must live, but you must also allow the other player to live. Players who are too greedy will lose: it is a subtle game of equilibrium, where you have to get ahead without crushing the other player. In the end, life and death are only the consequences of how well or how poorly you have made your construction. This is what one of Taniguchi's characters says: you live, you die, these are consequences. It's a proverb for playing go, and for life.
- Muriel Barbery
The Elegance of the Hedgehog
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Business people - Your business - is your greatest prejudice: it ties you to your locality, to the company you keep, to the inclinations you feel. Diligent in business - but indolent in spirit, content with your inadequacy, and with the cloak of duty hung over this contentment: that is how you live, that is how you want your children to live!
- Friedrich Nietzsche
Daybreak: Thoughts on the Prejudices of Morality
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
We are the lucky ones for we shall die, as there is an infinite number of possible forms of DNA all but a few billions of which will never burst into consciousness.
- Frank Close
The Void
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