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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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Serious thinkers are few, and the world is ruled by crude ideas.
- Carl Lotus Becker
The Heavenly City of the Eighteenth Century Philosophers
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Le Corbusier was the sort of relentlessly rational intellectual that only France loves wholeheartedly, the logician who flies higher and higher in ever-decreasing concentric circles until, with one last, utterly inevitable induction, he disappears up his own fundamental aperture and emerges in the fourth dimension as a needle-thin umber bird.
- Tom Wolfe
From Bauhaus to Our House
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One always has a choice.
- Dona Wording
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For the former, activity, any kind of activity, was an end in itself; for the latter, activity was but a progress toward the true end, which was rest, and peace of mind. Action was to be undertaken only when equilibrium was disturbed.
- Olaf Stapledon
Last and First Men
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Jigga, Kells, Not Guilty
- R. Kelly
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The air was thick with teeming life, just as the oceans and the rivers were. A spoonful of seawater or a pinch of soil between your fingers held billions of living things. We were blind to this out of necessity, because if we saw what was really there we would never move. It was around us, between us, on the edge of us and inside us. It coated our bodies and we released waves of it when we breathed and spoke. It was in every skin cell and in the eyelashes that fluttered when we dreamed. It adapted to ever aspect of our behavior; if animals were shaded out, and microorganisms illuminated, then our ghosts would be clear in these bright peripheries.
- Martin MacInnes
In Ascension
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You can pray and fight at the same time, Corporal. Especially if you learn how before things get rough. It’s important to have a philosophy of life . . . and of death.
- Henry V. O'Neil
Glory Main
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Religion is the perception of that power which constructs the greatness of the centuries out of the paltriness of the hours.
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All the things we experience in life can be separated into two realms, the realm of the concept and the realm of the senses.
- Scott McCloud
Understanding Comics: The Invisible Art
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It is an ill wind that does not blow some good. For example, it is well to be born in a decadent age; for one may obtain a reputation for virtue at a bargain price.
- Montaigne, Michel de
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All that man achieves and all that he fails to achieve is the direct result of his own thoughts. His suffering and happiness are evolved from within. As he thinks, so he is. As he continues to think, so he remains.
- James Allen
As a Man Thinketh
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Most often you don’t own your own mind; you borrow it from society.
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This outlook, one that said that American history must be the history of nature speaking through men, not of men shaping nature, became the single most powerful force in American intellectual life in the nineteenth century and shaped some of America's greatest works of literature, such as Moby Dick, Leaves of Grass and Walden, as well as generating an American school of philosophy , to be furthered by William James and John Dewey.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Nature and Other Essays
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It is possible that these millions of suns, along with thousands of millions more we cannot see, make up altogether but a globule of blood or lymph in the veins of an animal, of a minute insect, hatched in a world of whose vastness we can frame no conception, but which nevertheless would itself, in proportion to some other world, be no more than a speck of dust.
- Anatole France
The Garden Of Epicurus
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Instinct is a makeshift, an admission of helplessness before the problem of reality.
- Leo Frobenius
Kulturgeschichte Afrikas
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It is never ridicule, but a compliment, that knocks a philosopher off his feet. He is already positioned for every possible counter-attack, counter-argument, and retort...only to find a big bear hug coming his way.
- Criss Jami
Killosophy
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Hatred is a form of faith, distilled by passion to remove all rationality.
- L.E. Modesitt Jr.
The Elysium Commission
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Philosophy is the critically reflective, systematically articulated attempt to illumine our human experience in depth and set it in a vision of the whole.
- W. Norris Clarke
The One and the Many: A Contemporary Thomistic Metaphysics
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Teaching the layperson (divulgare) is not distorting (tergiversare) the subject, but educating the public; and it is our duty as scientists to educate without distorting the essence of the scientific knowledge attained by humanity. The future of our society depends upon this premise.
- Felix Alba-Juez
Galloping with Light - Einstein, Relativity, and Folklore
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Anyone who says that economic security is a human right, has been to much babied. While he babbles, other men are risking and losing their lives to protect him. They are fighting the sea, fighting the land, fighting disease and insects and weather and space and time, for him, while he chatters that all men have a right to security and that some pagan god—Society, The State, The Government, The Commune—must give it to them. Let the fighting men stop fighting this inhuman earth for one hour, and he will learn how much security there is.
- Rose Wilder Lane
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I have a sickness doctors can't cure,
Inexorably pulling me to the well of my destruction,
Consented to be a sacrifice, killed for her love,
Eager, like the drunk gulping wine mixed with poison,
Shameless were those my nights,
Yet my soul loved them beyond all passion.
- Ibn Hazm
طوق الحمامة في الألفة والألاف
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A man must not be without shame, for the shame of being without shame is shamelessness indeed.
- Mencius
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I speak gibberish to the civilized world and it replies in kind.
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Consider the whole world reconnoitre individuals j who is there whose life is not taken up with providing for to morrow Do you ask what harm there is in this An infinite deal for such men do not live but are about to live they defer every thing from day to day however circumspect we are life will still outrun us.
- Seneca
Letters from a Stoic
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Serious thinkers are few, and the world is ruled by crude ideas.
- Carl Lotus Becker
The Heavenly City of the Eighteenth Century Philosophers
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Le Corbusier was the sort of relentlessly rational intellectual that only France loves wholeheartedly, the logician who flies higher and higher in ever-decreasing concentric circles until, with one last, utterly inevitable induction, he disappears up his own fundamental aperture and emerges in the fourth dimension as a needle-thin umber bird.
- Tom Wolfe
From Bauhaus to Our House
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One always has a choice.
- Dona Wording
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For the former, activity, any kind of activity, was an end in itself; for the latter, activity was but a progress toward the true end, which was rest, and peace of mind. Action was to be undertaken only when equilibrium was disturbed.
- Olaf Stapledon
Last and First Men
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Jigga, Kells, Not Guilty
- R. Kelly
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The air was thick with teeming life, just as the oceans and the rivers were. A spoonful of seawater or a pinch of soil between your fingers held billions of living things. We were blind to this out of necessity, because if we saw what was really there we would never move. It was around us, between us, on the edge of us and inside us. It coated our bodies and we released waves of it when we breathed and spoke. It was in every skin cell and in the eyelashes that fluttered when we dreamed. It adapted to ever aspect of our behavior; if animals were shaded out, and microorganisms illuminated, then our ghosts would be clear in these bright peripheries.
- Martin MacInnes
In Ascension
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You can pray and fight at the same time, Corporal. Especially if you learn how before things get rough. It’s important to have a philosophy of life . . . and of death.
- Henry V. O'Neil
Glory Main
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Religion is the perception of that power which constructs the greatness of the centuries out of the paltriness of the hours.
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
All the things we experience in life can be separated into two realms, the realm of the concept and the realm of the senses.
- Scott McCloud
Understanding Comics: The Invisible Art
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It is an ill wind that does not blow some good. For example, it is well to be born in a decadent age; for one may obtain a reputation for virtue at a bargain price.
- Montaigne, Michel de
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All that man achieves and all that he fails to achieve is the direct result of his own thoughts. His suffering and happiness are evolved from within. As he thinks, so he is. As he continues to think, so he remains.
- James Allen
As a Man Thinketh
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Most often you don’t own your own mind; you borrow it from society.
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This outlook, one that said that American history must be the history of nature speaking through men, not of men shaping nature, became the single most powerful force in American intellectual life in the nineteenth century and shaped some of America's greatest works of literature, such as Moby Dick, Leaves of Grass and Walden, as well as generating an American school of philosophy , to be furthered by William James and John Dewey.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Nature and Other Essays
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It is possible that these millions of suns, along with thousands of millions more we cannot see, make up altogether but a globule of blood or lymph in the veins of an animal, of a minute insect, hatched in a world of whose vastness we can frame no conception, but which nevertheless would itself, in proportion to some other world, be no more than a speck of dust.
- Anatole France
The Garden Of Epicurus
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Instinct is a makeshift, an admission of helplessness before the problem of reality.
- Leo Frobenius
Kulturgeschichte Afrikas
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It is never ridicule, but a compliment, that knocks a philosopher off his feet. He is already positioned for every possible counter-attack, counter-argument, and retort...only to find a big bear hug coming his way.
- Criss Jami
Killosophy
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Hatred is a form of faith, distilled by passion to remove all rationality.
- L.E. Modesitt Jr.
The Elysium Commission
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Philosophy is the critically reflective, systematically articulated attempt to illumine our human experience in depth and set it in a vision of the whole.
- W. Norris Clarke
The One and the Many: A Contemporary Thomistic Metaphysics
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Teaching the layperson (divulgare) is not distorting (tergiversare) the subject, but educating the public; and it is our duty as scientists to educate without distorting the essence of the scientific knowledge attained by humanity. The future of our society depends upon this premise.
- Felix Alba-Juez
Galloping with Light - Einstein, Relativity, and Folklore
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Anyone who says that economic security is a human right, has been to much babied. While he babbles, other men are risking and losing their lives to protect him. They are fighting the sea, fighting the land, fighting disease and insects and weather and space and time, for him, while he chatters that all men have a right to security and that some pagan god—Society, The State, The Government, The Commune—must give it to them. Let the fighting men stop fighting this inhuman earth for one hour, and he will learn how much security there is.
- Rose Wilder Lane
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I have a sickness doctors can't cure,
Inexorably pulling me to the well of my destruction,
Consented to be a sacrifice, killed for her love,
Eager, like the drunk gulping wine mixed with poison,
Shameless were those my nights,
Yet my soul loved them beyond all passion.
- Ibn Hazm
طوق الحمامة في الألفة والألاف
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A man must not be without shame, for the shame of being without shame is shamelessness indeed.
- Mencius
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I speak gibberish to the civilized world and it replies in kind.
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Consider the whole world reconnoitre individuals j who is there whose life is not taken up with providing for to morrow Do you ask what harm there is in this An infinite deal for such men do not live but are about to live they defer every thing from day to day however circumspect we are life will still outrun us.
- Seneca
Letters from a Stoic
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Serious thinkers are few, and the world is ruled by crude ideas.
- Carl Lotus Becker
The Heavenly City of the Eighteenth Century Philosophers
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Le Corbusier was the sort of relentlessly rational intellectual that only France loves wholeheartedly, the logician who flies higher and higher in ever-decreasing concentric circles until, with one last, utterly inevitable induction, he disappears up his own fundamental aperture and emerges in the fourth dimension as a needle-thin umber bird.
- Tom Wolfe
From Bauhaus to Our House
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One always has a choice.
- Dona Wording
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
For the former, activity, any kind of activity, was an end in itself; for the latter, activity was but a progress toward the true end, which was rest, and peace of mind. Action was to be undertaken only when equilibrium was disturbed.
- Olaf Stapledon
Last and First Men
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Jigga, Kells, Not Guilty
- R. Kelly
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
The air was thick with teeming life, just as the oceans and the rivers were. A spoonful of seawater or a pinch of soil between your fingers held billions of living things. We were blind to this out of necessity, because if we saw what was really there we would never move. It was around us, between us, on the edge of us and inside us. It coated our bodies and we released waves of it when we breathed and spoke. It was in every skin cell and in the eyelashes that fluttered when we dreamed. It adapted to ever aspect of our behavior; if animals were shaded out, and microorganisms illuminated, then our ghosts would be clear in these bright peripheries.
- Martin MacInnes
In Ascension
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You can pray and fight at the same time, Corporal. Especially if you learn how before things get rough. It’s important to have a philosophy of life . . . and of death.
- Henry V. O'Neil
Glory Main
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Religion is the perception of that power which constructs the greatness of the centuries out of the paltriness of the hours.
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
All the things we experience in life can be separated into two realms, the realm of the concept and the realm of the senses.
- Scott McCloud
Understanding Comics: The Invisible Art
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
It is an ill wind that does not blow some good. For example, it is well to be born in a decadent age; for one may obtain a reputation for virtue at a bargain price.
- Montaigne, Michel de
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
All that man achieves and all that he fails to achieve is the direct result of his own thoughts. His suffering and happiness are evolved from within. As he thinks, so he is. As he continues to think, so he remains.
- James Allen
As a Man Thinketh
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Most often you don’t own your own mind; you borrow it from society.
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
This outlook, one that said that American history must be the history of nature speaking through men, not of men shaping nature, became the single most powerful force in American intellectual life in the nineteenth century and shaped some of America's greatest works of literature, such as Moby Dick, Leaves of Grass and Walden, as well as generating an American school of philosophy , to be furthered by William James and John Dewey.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Nature and Other Essays
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It is possible that these millions of suns, along with thousands of millions more we cannot see, make up altogether but a globule of blood or lymph in the veins of an animal, of a minute insect, hatched in a world of whose vastness we can frame no conception, but which nevertheless would itself, in proportion to some other world, be no more than a speck of dust.
- Anatole France
The Garden Of Epicurus
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Instinct is a makeshift, an admission of helplessness before the problem of reality.
- Leo Frobenius
Kulturgeschichte Afrikas
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
It is never ridicule, but a compliment, that knocks a philosopher off his feet. He is already positioned for every possible counter-attack, counter-argument, and retort...only to find a big bear hug coming his way.
- Criss Jami
Killosophy
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Hatred is a form of faith, distilled by passion to remove all rationality.
- L.E. Modesitt Jr.
The Elysium Commission
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Philosophy is the critically reflective, systematically articulated attempt to illumine our human experience in depth and set it in a vision of the whole.
- W. Norris Clarke
The One and the Many: A Contemporary Thomistic Metaphysics
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Teaching the layperson (divulgare) is not distorting (tergiversare) the subject, but educating the public; and it is our duty as scientists to educate without distorting the essence of the scientific knowledge attained by humanity. The future of our society depends upon this premise.
- Felix Alba-Juez
Galloping with Light - Einstein, Relativity, and Folklore
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Anyone who says that economic security is a human right, has been to much babied. While he babbles, other men are risking and losing their lives to protect him. They are fighting the sea, fighting the land, fighting disease and insects and weather and space and time, for him, while he chatters that all men have a right to security and that some pagan god—Society, The State, The Government, The Commune—must give it to them. Let the fighting men stop fighting this inhuman earth for one hour, and he will learn how much security there is.
- Rose Wilder Lane
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
I have a sickness doctors can't cure,
Inexorably pulling me to the well of my destruction,
Consented to be a sacrifice, killed for her love,
Eager, like the drunk gulping wine mixed with poison,
Shameless were those my nights,
Yet my soul loved them beyond all passion.
- Ibn Hazm
طوق الحمامة في الألفة والألاف
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A man must not be without shame, for the shame of being without shame is shamelessness indeed.
- Mencius
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I speak gibberish to the civilized world and it replies in kind.
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Consider the whole world reconnoitre individuals j who is there whose life is not taken up with providing for to morrow Do you ask what harm there is in this An infinite deal for such men do not live but are about to live they defer every thing from day to day however circumspect we are life will still outrun us.
- Seneca
Letters from a Stoic
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