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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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Time is heavy sometimes; imagine how heavy eternity must be.
- Emil Cioran
The Book of Delusions
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The will of the people, moreover, practically means the will of the most numerous or the most active part of the people; the majority, or those who succeed in making themselves accepted as the majority; type people, consequently, may desire to oppress a part of their number; and precautions are as much needed against this as against any other abuse of power.
- John Stuart Mill
On Liberty
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The connection between vice and meanness is a fit subject for satire, but when the satire is a fact, it cuts with the irresistible power of a diamond.
- Thomas Paine
The Crisis
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The safest general characterization of the European philosophical tradition is that it consists of a series of footnotes to Plato.
- Alfred North Whitehead
Process and Reality: An Essay in Cosmology
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Well, on some level, it’s similar to the psychological phenomenon of helplessness, where the will to try is lost. You get to the point where you just assume that your spontaneous call to a friend will go to voicemail or an assistant, and you decide not to bother.
- Zack Love
The Syrian Virgin
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[I]n Africa I was a member of a family—of a sort of family that the people of your culture haven't known for thousands of years. If gorillas were capable of such an expression, they would tell you that their family is like a hand, of which they are the fingers. They are fully aware of being a family but are very little aware of being individuals. Here in the zoo there were other gorillas—but there was no family. Five severed fingers do not make a hand.
- Daniel Quinn
Ishmael: An Adventure of the Mind and Spirit
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It is not God that is worshipped but the authority that claims to speak in His name. Sin becomes disobedience to authority not violation of integrity.
- Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan
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Tapi Tuhan juga seperti punya jatah waktu yang boleh kita habiskan
berdua. Sia-sia bertahan, sia-sia melawan.
- Avianti Armand
Negeri Para Peri
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Knowledge becomes evil if the aim be not virtuous.
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Question the answers, I repeated every class. Reevaluate your conclusions when the evidence changes.
- Craig M. Mullaney
The Unforgiving Minute: A Soldier's Education
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If one shifts the center of gravity of life out of life into the “Beyond” – into nothingness – one has deprived life as such of its center of gravity. The great lie of personal immortality destroys all rationality, all naturalness of instinct, all that is salutary, all that is life-furthering.
- Friedrich Nietzsche
Twilight of the Idols
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Slowly we became silent, and silence itself if an enemy to friendship.
- Norman Maclean
A River Runs Through It and Other Stories
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If the sum of living be love's fee,
Tremble. You are my one eternity.
- Laura Benet
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Raise a smile and lower stress
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You have to be an artist and a madman...
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If you cannot find an element of Humour in something, your not taking it seriously enough.
- Ilyas Kassam
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It is culture that is the bully."

Orn Ald yos'Senchul to Theo Waitley, Saltation
- Sharon Lee and Steve Miller
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It’s not easy to write a poem about a poem.
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The man who says that all events are necessitated has no ground for critizing the man who says that not all events are necessitated. For according to him this is itself a necessitated event.
- Epicurus
Epicurus: Letters, Principal Doctrines, and Vatican Sayings
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Love itself is what is left over when being "in love" has burned away, and this is both an art and a fortunate accident.
- Louis de Bernières
Corelli’s Mandolin
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The world has become sad because a puppet was once melancholy. The nihilist, that strange martyr who has no faith, who goes to the stake without enthusiasm, and dies for what he does not believe in, is a purely literary product. He was invented by Turgenev, and completed by Dostoevsky. Robespierre came out of the pages of Rousseau as surely as the People's Palace rose out debris of a novel. Literature always anticipates life. It does not copy it, but moulds it to its purpose.
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A false-statement requires deceit and distortion for someone to buy it, but a truthful-statement sells itself.
- William Bailey
The Great Ship of Knowledge, Vol. 1: Learning Earth's Deathly History
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Every man knows that he will die: and nobody believes it. On that paradox stand not only a host of religions but the entity of a sane being.
- John Myers Myers
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In addition to my new outlook on life, in some absurdly simple way, Anissa gave me several new reasons to live. Above all, I had to see her again and find out what, if anything, would happen between her and me.
- Zack Love
Anissa's Redemption
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Time is heavy sometimes; imagine how heavy eternity must be.
- Emil Cioran
The Book of Delusions
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The will of the people, moreover, practically means the will of the most numerous or the most active part of the people; the majority, or those who succeed in making themselves accepted as the majority; type people, consequently, may desire to oppress a part of their number; and precautions are as much needed against this as against any other abuse of power.
- John Stuart Mill
On Liberty
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The connection between vice and meanness is a fit subject for satire, but when the satire is a fact, it cuts with the irresistible power of a diamond.
- Thomas Paine
The Crisis
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The safest general characterization of the European philosophical tradition is that it consists of a series of footnotes to Plato.
- Alfred North Whitehead
Process and Reality: An Essay in Cosmology
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Well, on some level, it’s similar to the psychological phenomenon of helplessness, where the will to try is lost. You get to the point where you just assume that your spontaneous call to a friend will go to voicemail or an assistant, and you decide not to bother.
- Zack Love
The Syrian Virgin
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[I]n Africa I was a member of a family—of a sort of family that the people of your culture haven't known for thousands of years. If gorillas were capable of such an expression, they would tell you that their family is like a hand, of which they are the fingers. They are fully aware of being a family but are very little aware of being individuals. Here in the zoo there were other gorillas—but there was no family. Five severed fingers do not make a hand.
- Daniel Quinn
Ishmael: An Adventure of the Mind and Spirit
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It is not God that is worshipped but the authority that claims to speak in His name. Sin becomes disobedience to authority not violation of integrity.
- Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan
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Tapi Tuhan juga seperti punya jatah waktu yang boleh kita habiskan
berdua. Sia-sia bertahan, sia-sia melawan.
- Avianti Armand
Negeri Para Peri
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Knowledge becomes evil if the aim be not virtuous.
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Question the answers, I repeated every class. Reevaluate your conclusions when the evidence changes.
- Craig M. Mullaney
The Unforgiving Minute: A Soldier's Education
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If one shifts the center of gravity of life out of life into the “Beyond” – into nothingness – one has deprived life as such of its center of gravity. The great lie of personal immortality destroys all rationality, all naturalness of instinct, all that is salutary, all that is life-furthering.
- Friedrich Nietzsche
Twilight of the Idols
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Slowly we became silent, and silence itself if an enemy to friendship.
- Norman Maclean
A River Runs Through It and Other Stories
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If the sum of living be love's fee,
Tremble. You are my one eternity.
- Laura Benet
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Raise a smile and lower stress
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You have to be an artist and a madman...
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If you cannot find an element of Humour in something, your not taking it seriously enough.
- Ilyas Kassam
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It is culture that is the bully."

Orn Ald yos'Senchul to Theo Waitley, Saltation
- Sharon Lee and Steve Miller
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It’s not easy to write a poem about a poem.
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The man who says that all events are necessitated has no ground for critizing the man who says that not all events are necessitated. For according to him this is itself a necessitated event.
- Epicurus
Epicurus: Letters, Principal Doctrines, and Vatican Sayings
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Love itself is what is left over when being "in love" has burned away, and this is both an art and a fortunate accident.
- Louis de Bernières
Corelli’s Mandolin
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The world has become sad because a puppet was once melancholy. The nihilist, that strange martyr who has no faith, who goes to the stake without enthusiasm, and dies for what he does not believe in, is a purely literary product. He was invented by Turgenev, and completed by Dostoevsky. Robespierre came out of the pages of Rousseau as surely as the People's Palace rose out debris of a novel. Literature always anticipates life. It does not copy it, but moulds it to its purpose.
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A false-statement requires deceit and distortion for someone to buy it, but a truthful-statement sells itself.
- William Bailey
The Great Ship of Knowledge, Vol. 1: Learning Earth's Deathly History
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Every man knows that he will die: and nobody believes it. On that paradox stand not only a host of religions but the entity of a sane being.
- John Myers Myers
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
In addition to my new outlook on life, in some absurdly simple way, Anissa gave me several new reasons to live. Above all, I had to see her again and find out what, if anything, would happen between her and me.
- Zack Love
Anissa's Redemption
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Time is heavy sometimes; imagine how heavy eternity must be.
- Emil Cioran
The Book of Delusions
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The will of the people, moreover, practically means the will of the most numerous or the most active part of the people; the majority, or those who succeed in making themselves accepted as the majority; type people, consequently, may desire to oppress a part of their number; and precautions are as much needed against this as against any other abuse of power.
- John Stuart Mill
On Liberty
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
The connection between vice and meanness is a fit subject for satire, but when the satire is a fact, it cuts with the irresistible power of a diamond.
- Thomas Paine
The Crisis
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
The safest general characterization of the European philosophical tradition is that it consists of a series of footnotes to Plato.
- Alfred North Whitehead
Process and Reality: An Essay in Cosmology
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Well, on some level, it’s similar to the psychological phenomenon of helplessness, where the will to try is lost. You get to the point where you just assume that your spontaneous call to a friend will go to voicemail or an assistant, and you decide not to bother.
- Zack Love
The Syrian Virgin
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
[I]n Africa I was a member of a family—of a sort of family that the people of your culture haven't known for thousands of years. If gorillas were capable of such an expression, they would tell you that their family is like a hand, of which they are the fingers. They are fully aware of being a family but are very little aware of being individuals. Here in the zoo there were other gorillas—but there was no family. Five severed fingers do not make a hand.
- Daniel Quinn
Ishmael: An Adventure of the Mind and Spirit
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
It is not God that is worshipped but the authority that claims to speak in His name. Sin becomes disobedience to authority not violation of integrity.
- Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan
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Tapi Tuhan juga seperti punya jatah waktu yang boleh kita habiskan
berdua. Sia-sia bertahan, sia-sia melawan.
- Avianti Armand
Negeri Para Peri
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Knowledge becomes evil if the aim be not virtuous.
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Question the answers, I repeated every class. Reevaluate your conclusions when the evidence changes.
- Craig M. Mullaney
The Unforgiving Minute: A Soldier's Education
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
If one shifts the center of gravity of life out of life into the “Beyond” – into nothingness – one has deprived life as such of its center of gravity. The great lie of personal immortality destroys all rationality, all naturalness of instinct, all that is salutary, all that is life-furthering.
- Friedrich Nietzsche
Twilight of the Idols
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Slowly we became silent, and silence itself if an enemy to friendship.
- Norman Maclean
A River Runs Through It and Other Stories
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
If the sum of living be love's fee,
Tremble. You are my one eternity.
- Laura Benet
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Raise a smile and lower stress
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
You have to be an artist and a madman...
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
If you cannot find an element of Humour in something, your not taking it seriously enough.
- Ilyas Kassam
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
It is culture that is the bully."

Orn Ald yos'Senchul to Theo Waitley, Saltation
- Sharon Lee and Steve Miller
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
It’s not easy to write a poem about a poem.
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
The man who says that all events are necessitated has no ground for critizing the man who says that not all events are necessitated. For according to him this is itself a necessitated event.
- Epicurus
Epicurus: Letters, Principal Doctrines, and Vatican Sayings
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Love itself is what is left over when being "in love" has burned away, and this is both an art and a fortunate accident.
- Louis de Bernières
Corelli’s Mandolin
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
The world has become sad because a puppet was once melancholy. The nihilist, that strange martyr who has no faith, who goes to the stake without enthusiasm, and dies for what he does not believe in, is a purely literary product. He was invented by Turgenev, and completed by Dostoevsky. Robespierre came out of the pages of Rousseau as surely as the People's Palace rose out debris of a novel. Literature always anticipates life. It does not copy it, but moulds it to its purpose.
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
A false-statement requires deceit and distortion for someone to buy it, but a truthful-statement sells itself.
- William Bailey
The Great Ship of Knowledge, Vol. 1: Learning Earth's Deathly History
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Every man knows that he will die: and nobody believes it. On that paradox stand not only a host of religions but the entity of a sane being.
- John Myers Myers
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
In addition to my new outlook on life, in some absurdly simple way, Anissa gave me several new reasons to live. Above all, I had to see her again and find out what, if anything, would happen between her and me.
- Zack Love
Anissa's Redemption
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