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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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A life fueled by passions is like riding on the back of a dragon.
- Suzy Kassem
Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem
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Philosophy hasn't made any progress? - If somebody scratches the spot where he has an itch, do we have to see some progress? Isn't genuine scratching otherwise, or genuine itching itching? And can't this reaction to an irritation continue in the same way for a long time before a cure for the itching is discovered?
- Ludwig Wittgenstein
Culture and Value
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Take it from me, whenever you see a bunch of buggers puttering around talking about truth and beauty and the best way of attacking Ethics, you can bet your sandals it's all because dozens of other poor buggers are doing all the real work around the place.
- Terry Pratchett
Small Gods
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You cannot change your FUTURE, you can change your HABITS. And surely your HABITS will change your FUTURE
- Dr. Abdul Kalam
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Real change is slow, hard, and imperceptible.
- Lindy West
Shrill: Notes from a Loud Woman
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To be yourself is in many ways to be inconvenient to others. Only placaters and appeasers get along with other people all the time and that's not really getting along with anyone. That's just self erasure.
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Is it better to be loved or feared?
- Niccolo Machiavelli
The Prince
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Discourse on virtue and they pass by in droves. Whistle and dance and shimmy, and you've got an audience!
- Diogenes Laërtius
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No philosophy, no religion, has ever brought so glad a message to the world as this good news of Atheism.
- Annie Wood Besant
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From the scientific view, the theory of karma may be a metaphysical assumption -- but it is no more so than the assumption that all of life is material and originated out of pure chance
- The Dalai Lama
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You not only are hunted by others, you unknowingly hunt yourself.
- Dejan Stojanovic
The Sun Watches the Sun
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A crude age. Peace is stabilized with cannon and bombers, humanity with concentration camps and pogroms. We're living in a time when all standards are turned upside-down, Kern. Today the aggressor is the shepherd of peace, and the beaten and hunted are the troublemakers of the world. What's more, there are whole races who believe it!
- Erich Maria Remarque
Flotsam
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A new beginning is an illusion.
We continue.
- Alok Mishra
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But every difference of opinion is not a difference of principle.
- Thomas Jefferson
U.S. Presidential Inaugural Addresses
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Paranormalists, however, insist that our minds are transmitters that, with special effort, can focus like lasers to communicate across great distances, and even make things happen. That may seem far-fetched, but it's also a definition of prayer.
- Alan Weisman
The World Without Us
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The brightest light casts the darkest shadow.
- Jess C. Scott
The Darker Side of Life
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Some day people will ask me what is the key to my success...and I will simply say, "good Karma.
- K. Crumley
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It's not oil that runs the world, it's shame.
- Sherman Alexie
War Dances
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One must reach out and try to grasp this astonishing finesse, that the value of life cannot be estimated.
- Friedrich Nietzsche
Twilight of the Idols
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What we do not confront, we inhabit.
What we do not reject, we accept.
What we do not fight, we become.
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Arrival in the world is really a departure and that, which we call departure, is only a return.
- Dejan Stojanovic
The Sun Watches the Sun
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To recognize untruth as a condition of life--that certainly means resisting accustomed value feelings in a dangerous way; and a philosophy that risks this would by that token alone place itself beyond good and evil.
- Friedrich Nietzsche
Beyond Good and Evil
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Beginning to think is beginning to be undermined. Society has but little connection with such beginnings. The worm is in man's heart. That is where it must be sought. One must follow and understand this fatal game that leads from lucidity in the face of existence to flight from light.
- Albert Camus
The Myth of Sisyphus and Other Essays
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Sitting still is a pain in the ass.
- Noah Levine
Against the Stream: A Buddhist Manual for Spiritual Revolutionaries
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A life fueled by passions is like riding on the back of a dragon.
- Suzy Kassem
Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem
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Philosophy hasn't made any progress? - If somebody scratches the spot where he has an itch, do we have to see some progress? Isn't genuine scratching otherwise, or genuine itching itching? And can't this reaction to an irritation continue in the same way for a long time before a cure for the itching is discovered?
- Ludwig Wittgenstein
Culture and Value
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Take it from me, whenever you see a bunch of buggers puttering around talking about truth and beauty and the best way of attacking Ethics, you can bet your sandals it's all because dozens of other poor buggers are doing all the real work around the place.
- Terry Pratchett
Small Gods
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You cannot change your FUTURE, you can change your HABITS. And surely your HABITS will change your FUTURE
- Dr. Abdul Kalam
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Real change is slow, hard, and imperceptible.
- Lindy West
Shrill: Notes from a Loud Woman
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To be yourself is in many ways to be inconvenient to others. Only placaters and appeasers get along with other people all the time and that's not really getting along with anyone. That's just self erasure.
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Is it better to be loved or feared?
- Niccolo Machiavelli
The Prince
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Discourse on virtue and they pass by in droves. Whistle and dance and shimmy, and you've got an audience!
- Diogenes Laërtius
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No philosophy, no religion, has ever brought so glad a message to the world as this good news of Atheism.
- Annie Wood Besant
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From the scientific view, the theory of karma may be a metaphysical assumption -- but it is no more so than the assumption that all of life is material and originated out of pure chance
- The Dalai Lama
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You not only are hunted by others, you unknowingly hunt yourself.
- Dejan Stojanovic
The Sun Watches the Sun
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A crude age. Peace is stabilized with cannon and bombers, humanity with concentration camps and pogroms. We're living in a time when all standards are turned upside-down, Kern. Today the aggressor is the shepherd of peace, and the beaten and hunted are the troublemakers of the world. What's more, there are whole races who believe it!
- Erich Maria Remarque
Flotsam
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A new beginning is an illusion.
We continue.
- Alok Mishra
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But every difference of opinion is not a difference of principle.
- Thomas Jefferson
U.S. Presidential Inaugural Addresses
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Paranormalists, however, insist that our minds are transmitters that, with special effort, can focus like lasers to communicate across great distances, and even make things happen. That may seem far-fetched, but it's also a definition of prayer.
- Alan Weisman
The World Without Us
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The brightest light casts the darkest shadow.
- Jess C. Scott
The Darker Side of Life
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Some day people will ask me what is the key to my success...and I will simply say, "good Karma.
- K. Crumley
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It's not oil that runs the world, it's shame.
- Sherman Alexie
War Dances
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One must reach out and try to grasp this astonishing finesse, that the value of life cannot be estimated.
- Friedrich Nietzsche
Twilight of the Idols
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What we do not confront, we inhabit.
What we do not reject, we accept.
What we do not fight, we become.
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Arrival in the world is really a departure and that, which we call departure, is only a return.
- Dejan Stojanovic
The Sun Watches the Sun
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To recognize untruth as a condition of life--that certainly means resisting accustomed value feelings in a dangerous way; and a philosophy that risks this would by that token alone place itself beyond good and evil.
- Friedrich Nietzsche
Beyond Good and Evil
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Beginning to think is beginning to be undermined. Society has but little connection with such beginnings. The worm is in man's heart. That is where it must be sought. One must follow and understand this fatal game that leads from lucidity in the face of existence to flight from light.
- Albert Camus
The Myth of Sisyphus and Other Essays
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Sitting still is a pain in the ass.
- Noah Levine
Against the Stream: A Buddhist Manual for Spiritual Revolutionaries
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A life fueled by passions is like riding on the back of a dragon.
- Suzy Kassem
Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Philosophy hasn't made any progress? - If somebody scratches the spot where he has an itch, do we have to see some progress? Isn't genuine scratching otherwise, or genuine itching itching? And can't this reaction to an irritation continue in the same way for a long time before a cure for the itching is discovered?
- Ludwig Wittgenstein
Culture and Value
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Take it from me, whenever you see a bunch of buggers puttering around talking about truth and beauty and the best way of attacking Ethics, you can bet your sandals it's all because dozens of other poor buggers are doing all the real work around the place.
- Terry Pratchett
Small Gods
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You cannot change your FUTURE, you can change your HABITS. And surely your HABITS will change your FUTURE
- Dr. Abdul Kalam
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Real change is slow, hard, and imperceptible.
- Lindy West
Shrill: Notes from a Loud Woman
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To be yourself is in many ways to be inconvenient to others. Only placaters and appeasers get along with other people all the time and that's not really getting along with anyone. That's just self erasure.
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Is it better to be loved or feared?
- Niccolo Machiavelli
The Prince
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Discourse on virtue and they pass by in droves. Whistle and dance and shimmy, and you've got an audience!
- Diogenes Laërtius
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
No philosophy, no religion, has ever brought so glad a message to the world as this good news of Atheism.
- Annie Wood Besant
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
From the scientific view, the theory of karma may be a metaphysical assumption -- but it is no more so than the assumption that all of life is material and originated out of pure chance
- The Dalai Lama
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
You not only are hunted by others, you unknowingly hunt yourself.
- Dejan Stojanovic
The Sun Watches the Sun
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A crude age. Peace is stabilized with cannon and bombers, humanity with concentration camps and pogroms. We're living in a time when all standards are turned upside-down, Kern. Today the aggressor is the shepherd of peace, and the beaten and hunted are the troublemakers of the world. What's more, there are whole races who believe it!
- Erich Maria Remarque
Flotsam
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A new beginning is an illusion.
We continue.
- Alok Mishra
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
But every difference of opinion is not a difference of principle.
- Thomas Jefferson
U.S. Presidential Inaugural Addresses
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Paranormalists, however, insist that our minds are transmitters that, with special effort, can focus like lasers to communicate across great distances, and even make things happen. That may seem far-fetched, but it's also a definition of prayer.
- Alan Weisman
The World Without Us
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The brightest light casts the darkest shadow.
- Jess C. Scott
The Darker Side of Life
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Some day people will ask me what is the key to my success...and I will simply say, "good Karma.
- K. Crumley
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
It's not oil that runs the world, it's shame.
- Sherman Alexie
War Dances
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One must reach out and try to grasp this astonishing finesse, that the value of life cannot be estimated.
- Friedrich Nietzsche
Twilight of the Idols
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What we do not confront, we inhabit.
What we do not reject, we accept.
What we do not fight, we become.
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Arrival in the world is really a departure and that, which we call departure, is only a return.
- Dejan Stojanovic
The Sun Watches the Sun
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To recognize untruth as a condition of life--that certainly means resisting accustomed value feelings in a dangerous way; and a philosophy that risks this would by that token alone place itself beyond good and evil.
- Friedrich Nietzsche
Beyond Good and Evil
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Beginning to think is beginning to be undermined. Society has but little connection with such beginnings. The worm is in man's heart. That is where it must be sought. One must follow and understand this fatal game that leads from lucidity in the face of existence to flight from light.
- Albert Camus
The Myth of Sisyphus and Other Essays
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Sitting still is a pain in the ass.
- Noah Levine
Against the Stream: A Buddhist Manual for Spiritual Revolutionaries
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