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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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Weather is a purely personal matter. There is no such thing as a climate that is cold or hot, good or bad, healthy or unhealthy. People take it upon themselves to create a fantasy in their imagination and call it weather. There's only one climate in the world, but the message that nature sends is interpreted according to strictly personal, non-transferable rules.
- Álvaro Mutis
The Adventures and Misadventures of Maqroll
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Beauty as we feel it is something indescribable; what it is or what it means can never be said.
- George Santayana
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Atheism is a way of humility. It's to think oneself to be an animal, as we are actually and to allow oneself to become human.
- André Comte-Sponville
Présentations de la philosophie
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The goal of education is to enable individuals to continue their education.
- John Dewey
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Man has been called a rational being, but rationality is a matter of choice — and the alternative his nature offers him is: rational being or suicidal animal. Man has to be man — by choice; he has to hold his life as a value — by choice; he has to learn to sustain it — by choice; he has to discover the values it requires and practice his virtues — by choice.
A code of values accepted by choice is a code of morality.
- Ayn Rand
Atlas Shrugged
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la vida sólo puede ser entendida mirando hacia atrás; aunque deba ser vivida mirando hacia adelante
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to have great pain is to have certainty; to hear that another person has pain is to have doubt.
- Elaine Scarry
The Body in Pain: The Making and Unmaking of the World
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The most hated sort, and with the greatest reason, is usury, which makes a gain out of money itself, and not from the natural object of it. For money was intended to be used in exchange, but not to increase at interest. And this term interest, which means the birth of money from money, is applied to the breeding of money because the offspring resembles the parent. Wherefore of all modes of getting wealth this is the most unnatural.
- Aristotle
Politics
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The priest therefore saw what the anchorite could not. That God needs no witness. Neither to himself nor against. The truth is rather that if there were no God then there could be no witness for there could be no identity to the world but only each man's opinion of it. The priest saw that there is no man who is elect because there is no man who is not. To God every man is a heretic.
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The philosopher's school, ye men, is a surgery: you ought not to go out of it with pleasure, but with pain. For you are not in sound health when you enter.
- Epictetus
The Discourses
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Don't write to sell, write to tell.
- Jonas Eriksson
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The rich fop Francis of Assisi was bored all his life―until he fell in love with Christ and gave all his stuff away and became the troubadour of Lady Poverty.
- Peter Kreeft
Jesus-Shock
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Do you believe in God, doctor?"

No - but what does that really mean? I'm fumbling in the dark, struggling to make something out. But I've long ceased finding that original.
- Albert Camus
The Plague
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I was transformed the day
My ego shattered,
And all the superficial, material
Things that mattered
To me before,
Suddenly ceased
To matter.
- Suzy Kassem
Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem
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While the characters of men are forming, as is always the case in revolutions, there is a reciprocal suspicion, and a disposition to misinterpret each other; and even parties directly opposite in principle will sometimes concur in pushing forward the same movement with very different views, and with the hope of its producing very different consequences.
- Thomas Paine
Rights of Man
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I should go so far as to say that embedded in the surrealistic frame of a television news show is a theory of anticommunication, featuring a type of discourse that abandons logic, reason, sequence and rules of contradiction. In aesthetics, I believe the name given to this theory is Dadaism; in philosophy, nihilism; in psychiatry, schizophrenia. In the parlance of the theater, it is known as vaudeville.
- Neil Postman
Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business
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The river and its waves are one surf: where is the difference between the river and its waves?
When the wave rises, it is the water; and when it falls, it is the same water again. Tell me, Sir, where is the distinction?
Because it has been named as wave, shall it no longer be considered as water?

Within the Supreme Brahma, the worlds are being told like beads:
Look upon that rosary with the eyes of wisdom.
- Kabir
One Hundred Poems of Kabir
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Unfortunately, religion often works to shrink and tame the very wild and mysterious forces that first drew our wonder. In the process of making the inexplicable safe for the masses, the possibilities for real illusion-piercing insight becomes reduced. One might say that they are only available to those who dare to ride the breaking crest of direct life-altering experience.
- Stephen K. Hayes
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Faith in the possibilities of continued and rigorous inquiry does not limit access to truth to any channel or scheme of things. It does not first say that truth is universal and then add there is but one road to it.
- John Dewey
A Common Faith
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Philosophy cannot and should not give us an account of faith, but should understand itself and know just what it has indeed to offer, without taking anything away, least of all cheating people out of something by making them think it is nothing.
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Live like a tree, giving, forgiving and free.
- Debasish Mridha M.D.
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This is your life, and its ending one minute at a time.
- Chuck Palahniuk
Fight Club
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Philosophy does not promise to secure anything external for man, otherwise it would be admitting something that lies beyond its proper subject-matter. For as the material of the carpenter is wood, and that of statuary bronze, so the subject-matter of the art of living is each person's own life.
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Like apes, we breed, sleep, and die. Yet like God we say, "I am." We are ontological oxymorons.
- Peter Kreeft
Jesus-Shock
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Weather is a purely personal matter. There is no such thing as a climate that is cold or hot, good or bad, healthy or unhealthy. People take it upon themselves to create a fantasy in their imagination and call it weather. There's only one climate in the world, but the message that nature sends is interpreted according to strictly personal, non-transferable rules.
- Álvaro Mutis
The Adventures and Misadventures of Maqroll
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Beauty as we feel it is something indescribable; what it is or what it means can never be said.
- George Santayana
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Atheism is a way of humility. It's to think oneself to be an animal, as we are actually and to allow oneself to become human.
- André Comte-Sponville
Présentations de la philosophie
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The goal of education is to enable individuals to continue their education.
- John Dewey
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Man has been called a rational being, but rationality is a matter of choice — and the alternative his nature offers him is: rational being or suicidal animal. Man has to be man — by choice; he has to hold his life as a value — by choice; he has to learn to sustain it — by choice; he has to discover the values it requires and practice his virtues — by choice.
A code of values accepted by choice is a code of morality.
- Ayn Rand
Atlas Shrugged
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la vida sólo puede ser entendida mirando hacia atrás; aunque deba ser vivida mirando hacia adelante
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to have great pain is to have certainty; to hear that another person has pain is to have doubt.
- Elaine Scarry
The Body in Pain: The Making and Unmaking of the World
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The most hated sort, and with the greatest reason, is usury, which makes a gain out of money itself, and not from the natural object of it. For money was intended to be used in exchange, but not to increase at interest. And this term interest, which means the birth of money from money, is applied to the breeding of money because the offspring resembles the parent. Wherefore of all modes of getting wealth this is the most unnatural.
- Aristotle
Politics
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The priest therefore saw what the anchorite could not. That God needs no witness. Neither to himself nor against. The truth is rather that if there were no God then there could be no witness for there could be no identity to the world but only each man's opinion of it. The priest saw that there is no man who is elect because there is no man who is not. To God every man is a heretic.
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
The philosopher's school, ye men, is a surgery: you ought not to go out of it with pleasure, but with pain. For you are not in sound health when you enter.
- Epictetus
The Discourses
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Don't write to sell, write to tell.
- Jonas Eriksson
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The rich fop Francis of Assisi was bored all his life―until he fell in love with Christ and gave all his stuff away and became the troubadour of Lady Poverty.
- Peter Kreeft
Jesus-Shock
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Do you believe in God, doctor?"

No - but what does that really mean? I'm fumbling in the dark, struggling to make something out. But I've long ceased finding that original.
- Albert Camus
The Plague
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I was transformed the day
My ego shattered,
And all the superficial, material
Things that mattered
To me before,
Suddenly ceased
To matter.
- Suzy Kassem
Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
While the characters of men are forming, as is always the case in revolutions, there is a reciprocal suspicion, and a disposition to misinterpret each other; and even parties directly opposite in principle will sometimes concur in pushing forward the same movement with very different views, and with the hope of its producing very different consequences.
- Thomas Paine
Rights of Man
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I should go so far as to say that embedded in the surrealistic frame of a television news show is a theory of anticommunication, featuring a type of discourse that abandons logic, reason, sequence and rules of contradiction. In aesthetics, I believe the name given to this theory is Dadaism; in philosophy, nihilism; in psychiatry, schizophrenia. In the parlance of the theater, it is known as vaudeville.
- Neil Postman
Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
The river and its waves are one surf: where is the difference between the river and its waves?
When the wave rises, it is the water; and when it falls, it is the same water again. Tell me, Sir, where is the distinction?
Because it has been named as wave, shall it no longer be considered as water?

Within the Supreme Brahma, the worlds are being told like beads:
Look upon that rosary with the eyes of wisdom.
- Kabir
One Hundred Poems of Kabir
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Unfortunately, religion often works to shrink and tame the very wild and mysterious forces that first drew our wonder. In the process of making the inexplicable safe for the masses, the possibilities for real illusion-piercing insight becomes reduced. One might say that they are only available to those who dare to ride the breaking crest of direct life-altering experience.
- Stephen K. Hayes
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Faith in the possibilities of continued and rigorous inquiry does not limit access to truth to any channel or scheme of things. It does not first say that truth is universal and then add there is but one road to it.
- John Dewey
A Common Faith
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Philosophy cannot and should not give us an account of faith, but should understand itself and know just what it has indeed to offer, without taking anything away, least of all cheating people out of something by making them think it is nothing.
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Live like a tree, giving, forgiving and free.
- Debasish Mridha M.D.
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
This is your life, and its ending one minute at a time.
- Chuck Palahniuk
Fight Club
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Philosophy does not promise to secure anything external for man, otherwise it would be admitting something that lies beyond its proper subject-matter. For as the material of the carpenter is wood, and that of statuary bronze, so the subject-matter of the art of living is each person's own life.
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Like apes, we breed, sleep, and die. Yet like God we say, "I am." We are ontological oxymorons.
- Peter Kreeft
Jesus-Shock
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Weather is a purely personal matter. There is no such thing as a climate that is cold or hot, good or bad, healthy or unhealthy. People take it upon themselves to create a fantasy in their imagination and call it weather. There's only one climate in the world, but the message that nature sends is interpreted according to strictly personal, non-transferable rules.
- Álvaro Mutis
The Adventures and Misadventures of Maqroll
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Beauty as we feel it is something indescribable; what it is or what it means can never be said.
- George Santayana
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Atheism is a way of humility. It's to think oneself to be an animal, as we are actually and to allow oneself to become human.
- André Comte-Sponville
Présentations de la philosophie
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
The goal of education is to enable individuals to continue their education.
- John Dewey
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Man has been called a rational being, but rationality is a matter of choice — and the alternative his nature offers him is: rational being or suicidal animal. Man has to be man — by choice; he has to hold his life as a value — by choice; he has to learn to sustain it — by choice; he has to discover the values it requires and practice his virtues — by choice.
A code of values accepted by choice is a code of morality.
- Ayn Rand
Atlas Shrugged
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
la vida sólo puede ser entendida mirando hacia atrás; aunque deba ser vivida mirando hacia adelante
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
to have great pain is to have certainty; to hear that another person has pain is to have doubt.
- Elaine Scarry
The Body in Pain: The Making and Unmaking of the World
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
The most hated sort, and with the greatest reason, is usury, which makes a gain out of money itself, and not from the natural object of it. For money was intended to be used in exchange, but not to increase at interest. And this term interest, which means the birth of money from money, is applied to the breeding of money because the offspring resembles the parent. Wherefore of all modes of getting wealth this is the most unnatural.
- Aristotle
Politics
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The priest therefore saw what the anchorite could not. That God needs no witness. Neither to himself nor against. The truth is rather that if there were no God then there could be no witness for there could be no identity to the world but only each man's opinion of it. The priest saw that there is no man who is elect because there is no man who is not. To God every man is a heretic.
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
The philosopher's school, ye men, is a surgery: you ought not to go out of it with pleasure, but with pain. For you are not in sound health when you enter.
- Epictetus
The Discourses
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Don't write to sell, write to tell.
- Jonas Eriksson
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
The rich fop Francis of Assisi was bored all his life―until he fell in love with Christ and gave all his stuff away and became the troubadour of Lady Poverty.
- Peter Kreeft
Jesus-Shock
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Do you believe in God, doctor?"

No - but what does that really mean? I'm fumbling in the dark, struggling to make something out. But I've long ceased finding that original.
- Albert Camus
The Plague
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
I was transformed the day
My ego shattered,
And all the superficial, material
Things that mattered
To me before,
Suddenly ceased
To matter.
- Suzy Kassem
Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
While the characters of men are forming, as is always the case in revolutions, there is a reciprocal suspicion, and a disposition to misinterpret each other; and even parties directly opposite in principle will sometimes concur in pushing forward the same movement with very different views, and with the hope of its producing very different consequences.
- Thomas Paine
Rights of Man
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
I should go so far as to say that embedded in the surrealistic frame of a television news show is a theory of anticommunication, featuring a type of discourse that abandons logic, reason, sequence and rules of contradiction. In aesthetics, I believe the name given to this theory is Dadaism; in philosophy, nihilism; in psychiatry, schizophrenia. In the parlance of the theater, it is known as vaudeville.
- Neil Postman
Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
The river and its waves are one surf: where is the difference between the river and its waves?
When the wave rises, it is the water; and when it falls, it is the same water again. Tell me, Sir, where is the distinction?
Because it has been named as wave, shall it no longer be considered as water?

Within the Supreme Brahma, the worlds are being told like beads:
Look upon that rosary with the eyes of wisdom.
- Kabir
One Hundred Poems of Kabir
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Unfortunately, religion often works to shrink and tame the very wild and mysterious forces that first drew our wonder. In the process of making the inexplicable safe for the masses, the possibilities for real illusion-piercing insight becomes reduced. One might say that they are only available to those who dare to ride the breaking crest of direct life-altering experience.
- Stephen K. Hayes
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Faith in the possibilities of continued and rigorous inquiry does not limit access to truth to any channel or scheme of things. It does not first say that truth is universal and then add there is but one road to it.
- John Dewey
A Common Faith
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Philosophy cannot and should not give us an account of faith, but should understand itself and know just what it has indeed to offer, without taking anything away, least of all cheating people out of something by making them think it is nothing.
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Live like a tree, giving, forgiving and free.
- Debasish Mridha M.D.
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
This is your life, and its ending one minute at a time.
- Chuck Palahniuk
Fight Club
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Philosophy does not promise to secure anything external for man, otherwise it would be admitting something that lies beyond its proper subject-matter. For as the material of the carpenter is wood, and that of statuary bronze, so the subject-matter of the art of living is each person's own life.
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Like apes, we breed, sleep, and die. Yet like God we say, "I am." We are ontological oxymorons.
- Peter Kreeft
Jesus-Shock
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
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