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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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To acknowledge the need of a new world-view would undermine the whole of their activity, and not many thinkers were willing to pay that price. Particularly not in a society where social exclusion meant rapid transportation to the proudest invention of the humanist sciences: the mental hospital.
- Alexander Bard
The Netocrats
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A parallel to this system of punishment is the trauma caused by enforced unemployment in capitalist society. Add to this an inability for the unemployed to find any imaginable alternative occupation, and the extent of the effects of network exclusion becomes clear.
- Alexander Bard
The Netocrats
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[I]f the basic claims of religion are true, the scientific worldview is so blinkered and susceptible to supernatural modification as to be rendered nearly ridiculous; if the basic claims of religion are false, most people are profoundly confused about the nature of reality, confounded by irrational hopes and fears, and tending to waste precious time and attention--often with tragic results. Is this really a dichotomy about which science can claim to be neutral?
- Sam Harris
The Moral Landscape: How Science Can Determine Human Values
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I started studying law, but this I could stand just for one semester. I couldn't stand more. Then I studied languages and literature for two years. After two years I passed an examination with the result I have a teaching certificate for Latin and Hungarian for the lower classes of the gymnasium, for kids from 10 to 14. I never made use of this teaching certificate. And then I came to philosophy, physics, and mathematics. In fact, I came to mathematics indirectly. I was really more interested in physics and philosophy and thought about those. It is a little shortened but not quite wrong to say: I thought I am not good enough for physics and I am too good for philosophy. Mathematics is in between.
- George Pólya
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Humanity must forgive 'Humanity', for only then can we be Humane.
- Ilyas Kassam
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Comprehending and knowing better and deeper are the best guarantees we can have to attain ideas and criteria of our own; i.e. to stop depending on what other people say. In summary, to be freer to choose our own path in life.
- Manuel Toharia-Cortés
Galloping with Light - Einstein, Relativity, and Folklore
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Other people are only aspects of our own greater being.
- Doug Dillon
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Your principle should be to see everything and say nothing. The world changes so rapidly that if you want to get on you cannot afford to align yourself with any person or point of view.
- Kushwant Singh
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Excess of strength alone is proof of strength
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Man is an end in himself.
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FRANCISCUS: How sweetly she looks! Oh, but there's a wrinkle in her brow as deep as philosophy.
- Thomas Middleton
The Changeling
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I am an i poet.
- E.E. Cummings
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Nature, it seems, is the popular name
for milliards and milliards and milliards
of particles playing their infinite game
of billiards and billiards and billiards.
- Piet Hein
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Reason may be employed to support faith as well as to destroy it.
- Carl Lotus Becker
The Heavenly City of the Eighteenth Century Philosophers
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Dua kebaikan yang berbeda tidak mungkin berada pada satu intensitas yang sama. Sesederhana itu.
- Fredrik Nael
Fantasy Fiesta 2010: Antologi Cerita Fantasi Terbaik 2010
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The method of 'postulating' what we want has many advantages ; they are the same as the advantages of theft over honest toil.
- RUSSELL BERTRAND
Introduction to Mathematical Philosophy
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As life in general constituted much pain in the form of struggles against poverty, disease, ignorance, and emotional anguish, what more civilized way for people to alleviate the same than by giving themselves to one another as brothers and sisters in deed as well as in word? A society of people hoping to become politically superior needed first to become spiritually valid.
- Author-Poet Aberjhani
The Wisdom of W.E.B. Du Bois
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Death plucks my ear and says, 'Live—I am coming.
- Virgil
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Whenever you do something holy, you're improving one of the gods?
- Plato
Euthyphro
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As the bones, flesh, entrails and blood vessels are enclosed by a skin that renders the aspect of men endurable, so the impulses and passions of the soul are enclosed by vanity: it is the skin of the soul.
- Friedrich Nietzsche
Human, All Too Human: A Book for Free Spirits
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The media are a criminal organization that uses advanced undiscovered technology to abuse their targets into trapping them do phenomenal crimes that are actually false reality in order to protect the real criminals, those they cover and present to you as innocents.
- Maria Karvouni
You Are Always Innocent
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The argument that coming into existence is always a harm can be summarized as follows: Both good and bad things happen only to those who exist. However, there is a crucial asymmetry between the good and the bad things. The absence of bad things, such as pain, is good even if there is nobody to enjoy that good, whereas the absence of good things, such as pleasure, is bad only if there is somebody who is deprived of these good things. The implication of this is that the avoidance of the bad by never existing is a real advantage over existence, whereas the loss of certain goods by not existing is not a real disadvantage over never existing.
- David Benatar
Better Never to Have Been: The Harm of Coming into Existence
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... for although people can be made worse off by all other gifts, correct reasoning alone can only be for the good.
- Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz
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Whenever a soul leaves the body a void is felt across the world..
- Anonymous
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To acknowledge the need of a new world-view would undermine the whole of their activity, and not many thinkers were willing to pay that price. Particularly not in a society where social exclusion meant rapid transportation to the proudest invention of the humanist sciences: the mental hospital.
- Alexander Bard
The Netocrats
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A parallel to this system of punishment is the trauma caused by enforced unemployment in capitalist society. Add to this an inability for the unemployed to find any imaginable alternative occupation, and the extent of the effects of network exclusion becomes clear.
- Alexander Bard
The Netocrats
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[I]f the basic claims of religion are true, the scientific worldview is so blinkered and susceptible to supernatural modification as to be rendered nearly ridiculous; if the basic claims of religion are false, most people are profoundly confused about the nature of reality, confounded by irrational hopes and fears, and tending to waste precious time and attention--often with tragic results. Is this really a dichotomy about which science can claim to be neutral?
- Sam Harris
The Moral Landscape: How Science Can Determine Human Values
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I started studying law, but this I could stand just for one semester. I couldn't stand more. Then I studied languages and literature for two years. After two years I passed an examination with the result I have a teaching certificate for Latin and Hungarian for the lower classes of the gymnasium, for kids from 10 to 14. I never made use of this teaching certificate. And then I came to philosophy, physics, and mathematics. In fact, I came to mathematics indirectly. I was really more interested in physics and philosophy and thought about those. It is a little shortened but not quite wrong to say: I thought I am not good enough for physics and I am too good for philosophy. Mathematics is in between.
- George Pólya
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Humanity must forgive 'Humanity', for only then can we be Humane.
- Ilyas Kassam
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Comprehending and knowing better and deeper are the best guarantees we can have to attain ideas and criteria of our own; i.e. to stop depending on what other people say. In summary, to be freer to choose our own path in life.
- Manuel Toharia-Cortés
Galloping with Light - Einstein, Relativity, and Folklore
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Other people are only aspects of our own greater being.
- Doug Dillon
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Your principle should be to see everything and say nothing. The world changes so rapidly that if you want to get on you cannot afford to align yourself with any person or point of view.
- Kushwant Singh
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Excess of strength alone is proof of strength
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Man is an end in himself.
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FRANCISCUS: How sweetly she looks! Oh, but there's a wrinkle in her brow as deep as philosophy.
- Thomas Middleton
The Changeling
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I am an i poet.
- E.E. Cummings
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Nature, it seems, is the popular name
for milliards and milliards and milliards
of particles playing their infinite game
of billiards and billiards and billiards.
- Piet Hein
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Reason may be employed to support faith as well as to destroy it.
- Carl Lotus Becker
The Heavenly City of the Eighteenth Century Philosophers
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Dua kebaikan yang berbeda tidak mungkin berada pada satu intensitas yang sama. Sesederhana itu.
- Fredrik Nael
Fantasy Fiesta 2010: Antologi Cerita Fantasi Terbaik 2010
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The method of 'postulating' what we want has many advantages ; they are the same as the advantages of theft over honest toil.
- RUSSELL BERTRAND
Introduction to Mathematical Philosophy
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As life in general constituted much pain in the form of struggles against poverty, disease, ignorance, and emotional anguish, what more civilized way for people to alleviate the same than by giving themselves to one another as brothers and sisters in deed as well as in word? A society of people hoping to become politically superior needed first to become spiritually valid.
- Author-Poet Aberjhani
The Wisdom of W.E.B. Du Bois
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Death plucks my ear and says, 'Live—I am coming.
- Virgil
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Whenever you do something holy, you're improving one of the gods?
- Plato
Euthyphro
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As the bones, flesh, entrails and blood vessels are enclosed by a skin that renders the aspect of men endurable, so the impulses and passions of the soul are enclosed by vanity: it is the skin of the soul.
- Friedrich Nietzsche
Human, All Too Human: A Book for Free Spirits
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The media are a criminal organization that uses advanced undiscovered technology to abuse their targets into trapping them do phenomenal crimes that are actually false reality in order to protect the real criminals, those they cover and present to you as innocents.
- Maria Karvouni
You Are Always Innocent
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The argument that coming into existence is always a harm can be summarized as follows: Both good and bad things happen only to those who exist. However, there is a crucial asymmetry between the good and the bad things. The absence of bad things, such as pain, is good even if there is nobody to enjoy that good, whereas the absence of good things, such as pleasure, is bad only if there is somebody who is deprived of these good things. The implication of this is that the avoidance of the bad by never existing is a real advantage over existence, whereas the loss of certain goods by not existing is not a real disadvantage over never existing.
- David Benatar
Better Never to Have Been: The Harm of Coming into Existence
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... for although people can be made worse off by all other gifts, correct reasoning alone can only be for the good.
- Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz
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Whenever a soul leaves the body a void is felt across the world..
- Anonymous
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To acknowledge the need of a new world-view would undermine the whole of their activity, and not many thinkers were willing to pay that price. Particularly not in a society where social exclusion meant rapid transportation to the proudest invention of the humanist sciences: the mental hospital.
- Alexander Bard
The Netocrats
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A parallel to this system of punishment is the trauma caused by enforced unemployment in capitalist society. Add to this an inability for the unemployed to find any imaginable alternative occupation, and the extent of the effects of network exclusion becomes clear.
- Alexander Bard
The Netocrats
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[I]f the basic claims of religion are true, the scientific worldview is so blinkered and susceptible to supernatural modification as to be rendered nearly ridiculous; if the basic claims of religion are false, most people are profoundly confused about the nature of reality, confounded by irrational hopes and fears, and tending to waste precious time and attention--often with tragic results. Is this really a dichotomy about which science can claim to be neutral?
- Sam Harris
The Moral Landscape: How Science Can Determine Human Values
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I started studying law, but this I could stand just for one semester. I couldn't stand more. Then I studied languages and literature for two years. After two years I passed an examination with the result I have a teaching certificate for Latin and Hungarian for the lower classes of the gymnasium, for kids from 10 to 14. I never made use of this teaching certificate. And then I came to philosophy, physics, and mathematics. In fact, I came to mathematics indirectly. I was really more interested in physics and philosophy and thought about those. It is a little shortened but not quite wrong to say: I thought I am not good enough for physics and I am too good for philosophy. Mathematics is in between.
- George Pólya
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Humanity must forgive 'Humanity', for only then can we be Humane.
- Ilyas Kassam
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Comprehending and knowing better and deeper are the best guarantees we can have to attain ideas and criteria of our own; i.e. to stop depending on what other people say. In summary, to be freer to choose our own path in life.
- Manuel Toharia-Cortés
Galloping with Light - Einstein, Relativity, and Folklore
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Other people are only aspects of our own greater being.
- Doug Dillon
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Your principle should be to see everything and say nothing. The world changes so rapidly that if you want to get on you cannot afford to align yourself with any person or point of view.
- Kushwant Singh
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Excess of strength alone is proof of strength
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Man is an end in himself.
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
FRANCISCUS: How sweetly she looks! Oh, but there's a wrinkle in her brow as deep as philosophy.
- Thomas Middleton
The Changeling
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
I am an i poet.
- E.E. Cummings
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Nature, it seems, is the popular name
for milliards and milliards and milliards
of particles playing their infinite game
of billiards and billiards and billiards.
- Piet Hein
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Reason may be employed to support faith as well as to destroy it.
- Carl Lotus Becker
The Heavenly City of the Eighteenth Century Philosophers
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Dua kebaikan yang berbeda tidak mungkin berada pada satu intensitas yang sama. Sesederhana itu.
- Fredrik Nael
Fantasy Fiesta 2010: Antologi Cerita Fantasi Terbaik 2010
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
The method of 'postulating' what we want has many advantages ; they are the same as the advantages of theft over honest toil.
- RUSSELL BERTRAND
Introduction to Mathematical Philosophy
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
As life in general constituted much pain in the form of struggles against poverty, disease, ignorance, and emotional anguish, what more civilized way for people to alleviate the same than by giving themselves to one another as brothers and sisters in deed as well as in word? A society of people hoping to become politically superior needed first to become spiritually valid.
- Author-Poet Aberjhani
The Wisdom of W.E.B. Du Bois
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Death plucks my ear and says, 'Live—I am coming.
- Virgil
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Whenever you do something holy, you're improving one of the gods?
- Plato
Euthyphro
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
As the bones, flesh, entrails and blood vessels are enclosed by a skin that renders the aspect of men endurable, so the impulses and passions of the soul are enclosed by vanity: it is the skin of the soul.
- Friedrich Nietzsche
Human, All Too Human: A Book for Free Spirits
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
The media are a criminal organization that uses advanced undiscovered technology to abuse their targets into trapping them do phenomenal crimes that are actually false reality in order to protect the real criminals, those they cover and present to you as innocents.
- Maria Karvouni
You Are Always Innocent
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
The argument that coming into existence is always a harm can be summarized as follows: Both good and bad things happen only to those who exist. However, there is a crucial asymmetry between the good and the bad things. The absence of bad things, such as pain, is good even if there is nobody to enjoy that good, whereas the absence of good things, such as pleasure, is bad only if there is somebody who is deprived of these good things. The implication of this is that the avoidance of the bad by never existing is a real advantage over existence, whereas the loss of certain goods by not existing is not a real disadvantage over never existing.
- David Benatar
Better Never to Have Been: The Harm of Coming into Existence
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... for although people can be made worse off by all other gifts, correct reasoning alone can only be for the good.
- Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz
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Whenever a soul leaves the body a void is felt across the world..
- Anonymous
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