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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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Trees are sanctuaries. Whoever knows how to speak to them, whoever knows how to listen to them, can learn the truth.
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Trees are poems the earth writes upon the sky,
We fell them down and turn them into paper,
That we may record our emptiness.
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If you hate a person, you hate something in him that is part of yourself. What isn’t part of ourselves doesn’t disturb us.
- Herman Hesse
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I know there is no straight road
No straight road in this world
Only a giant labyrinth
Of intersecting crossroads
- Federico Garcia Lorca
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May you live every day of your life.
- Jonathan Swift
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The past has no power over the present moment.
- Eckhart Tolle
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Living well is an art that can be developed: a love of life and ability to take great pleasure from small offerings and assurance that the world owes you nothing and that every gift is exactly that, a gift.
- Maya Angelou
Wouldn't Take Nothing for My Journey Now
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All paths are present, always... and we can but choose among them.
- Jacqueline Carey
Kushiel's Chosen
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Dance like it hurts. Love like you need money. Work when people are watching. -- Dogbert's Motto
- Scott Adams
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One morning you wake up with more life behind you than in front of you, not being able to understand how it’s happened.
- Fredrik Backman
Britt-Marie var här
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The philosopher Diogenes was eating bread and lentils for supper. He was seen by the philosopher Aristippus, who lived comfortably by flattering the king. Said Aristippus, 'If you would learn to be subservient to the king you would not have to live on lentils.'

Said Diogenes, 'Learn to live on lentils and you will not have to be subservient to the king".
- Anthony de Mello
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The most beautiful experience we can have is the mysterious. It is the fundamental emotion that stands at the cradle of true art and true science.
- Albert Einstein
The World As I See It
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Heard melodies are sweet, but those unheard, are sweeter
- John Keats
Ode On A Grecian Urn And Other Poems
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Like all magnificent things, it's very simple.
- Natalie Babbitt
Tuck Everlasting
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The smallest minority on earth is the individual. Those who deny individual rights cannot claim to be defenders of minorities.
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Time is a game played beautifully by children.
- Heraclitus
Fragments
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I started my life with a single absolute: that the world was mine to shape in the image of my highest values and never to be given up to a lesser standard, no matter how long or hard the struggle.
- Ayn Rand
Atlas Shrugged
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Expect everything, I always say, and the unexpected never happens.
- Norton Juster
The Phantom Tollbooth
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He suddenly recalled from Plato's Symposium: People were hermaphrodites until God split then in two, and now all the halves wander the world over seeking one another. Love is the longing for the half of ourselves we have lost.
- Milan Kundera
The Unbearable Lightness of Being
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The flame that burns Twice as bright burns half as long.
- Lao Tzu
Te-Tao Ching
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belief is the death of intelligence.
- Robert Anton Wilson
Cosmic Trigger: Die letzten Geheimnisse der Illuminaten oder An den Grenzen des erweiterten Bewusstseins
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Take it easy, but take it.
- Woody Guthrie
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Anyway—because we are readers, we don't have to wait for some communications executive to decide what we should think about next—and how we should think about it. We can fill our heads with anything from aardvarks to zucchinis—at any time of night or day.
- Kurt Vonnegut
Palm Sunday: An Autobiographical Collage
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Knowledge is power is time is money.
- Robert Thier
Storm and Silence
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Trees are sanctuaries. Whoever knows how to speak to them, whoever knows how to listen to them, can learn the truth.
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Trees are poems the earth writes upon the sky,
We fell them down and turn them into paper,
That we may record our emptiness.
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If you hate a person, you hate something in him that is part of yourself. What isn’t part of ourselves doesn’t disturb us.
- Herman Hesse
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I know there is no straight road
No straight road in this world
Only a giant labyrinth
Of intersecting crossroads
- Federico Garcia Lorca
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May you live every day of your life.
- Jonathan Swift
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The past has no power over the present moment.
- Eckhart Tolle
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Living well is an art that can be developed: a love of life and ability to take great pleasure from small offerings and assurance that the world owes you nothing and that every gift is exactly that, a gift.
- Maya Angelou
Wouldn't Take Nothing for My Journey Now
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All paths are present, always... and we can but choose among them.
- Jacqueline Carey
Kushiel's Chosen
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Dance like it hurts. Love like you need money. Work when people are watching. -- Dogbert's Motto
- Scott Adams
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One morning you wake up with more life behind you than in front of you, not being able to understand how it’s happened.
- Fredrik Backman
Britt-Marie var här
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The philosopher Diogenes was eating bread and lentils for supper. He was seen by the philosopher Aristippus, who lived comfortably by flattering the king. Said Aristippus, 'If you would learn to be subservient to the king you would not have to live on lentils.'

Said Diogenes, 'Learn to live on lentils and you will not have to be subservient to the king".
- Anthony de Mello
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The most beautiful experience we can have is the mysterious. It is the fundamental emotion that stands at the cradle of true art and true science.
- Albert Einstein
The World As I See It
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Heard melodies are sweet, but those unheard, are sweeter
- John Keats
Ode On A Grecian Urn And Other Poems
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Like all magnificent things, it's very simple.
- Natalie Babbitt
Tuck Everlasting
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The smallest minority on earth is the individual. Those who deny individual rights cannot claim to be defenders of minorities.
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Time is a game played beautifully by children.
- Heraclitus
Fragments
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I started my life with a single absolute: that the world was mine to shape in the image of my highest values and never to be given up to a lesser standard, no matter how long or hard the struggle.
- Ayn Rand
Atlas Shrugged
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Expect everything, I always say, and the unexpected never happens.
- Norton Juster
The Phantom Tollbooth
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He suddenly recalled from Plato's Symposium: People were hermaphrodites until God split then in two, and now all the halves wander the world over seeking one another. Love is the longing for the half of ourselves we have lost.
- Milan Kundera
The Unbearable Lightness of Being
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The flame that burns Twice as bright burns half as long.
- Lao Tzu
Te-Tao Ching
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belief is the death of intelligence.
- Robert Anton Wilson
Cosmic Trigger: Die letzten Geheimnisse der Illuminaten oder An den Grenzen des erweiterten Bewusstseins
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Take it easy, but take it.
- Woody Guthrie
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Anyway—because we are readers, we don't have to wait for some communications executive to decide what we should think about next—and how we should think about it. We can fill our heads with anything from aardvarks to zucchinis—at any time of night or day.
- Kurt Vonnegut
Palm Sunday: An Autobiographical Collage
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Knowledge is power is time is money.
- Robert Thier
Storm and Silence
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Trees are sanctuaries. Whoever knows how to speak to them, whoever knows how to listen to them, can learn the truth.
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Trees are poems the earth writes upon the sky,
We fell them down and turn them into paper,
That we may record our emptiness.
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If you hate a person, you hate something in him that is part of yourself. What isn’t part of ourselves doesn’t disturb us.
- Herman Hesse
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I know there is no straight road
No straight road in this world
Only a giant labyrinth
Of intersecting crossroads
- Federico Garcia Lorca
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May you live every day of your life.
- Jonathan Swift
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The past has no power over the present moment.
- Eckhart Tolle
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Living well is an art that can be developed: a love of life and ability to take great pleasure from small offerings and assurance that the world owes you nothing and that every gift is exactly that, a gift.
- Maya Angelou
Wouldn't Take Nothing for My Journey Now
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All paths are present, always... and we can but choose among them.
- Jacqueline Carey
Kushiel's Chosen
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Dance like it hurts. Love like you need money. Work when people are watching. -- Dogbert's Motto
- Scott Adams
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One morning you wake up with more life behind you than in front of you, not being able to understand how it’s happened.
- Fredrik Backman
Britt-Marie var här
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The philosopher Diogenes was eating bread and lentils for supper. He was seen by the philosopher Aristippus, who lived comfortably by flattering the king. Said Aristippus, 'If you would learn to be subservient to the king you would not have to live on lentils.'

Said Diogenes, 'Learn to live on lentils and you will not have to be subservient to the king".
- Anthony de Mello
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The most beautiful experience we can have is the mysterious. It is the fundamental emotion that stands at the cradle of true art and true science.
- Albert Einstein
The World As I See It
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Heard melodies are sweet, but those unheard, are sweeter
- John Keats
Ode On A Grecian Urn And Other Poems
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Like all magnificent things, it's very simple.
- Natalie Babbitt
Tuck Everlasting
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
The smallest minority on earth is the individual. Those who deny individual rights cannot claim to be defenders of minorities.
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Time is a game played beautifully by children.
- Heraclitus
Fragments
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I started my life with a single absolute: that the world was mine to shape in the image of my highest values and never to be given up to a lesser standard, no matter how long or hard the struggle.
- Ayn Rand
Atlas Shrugged
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Expect everything, I always say, and the unexpected never happens.
- Norton Juster
The Phantom Tollbooth
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He suddenly recalled from Plato's Symposium: People were hermaphrodites until God split then in two, and now all the halves wander the world over seeking one another. Love is the longing for the half of ourselves we have lost.
- Milan Kundera
The Unbearable Lightness of Being
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
The flame that burns Twice as bright burns half as long.
- Lao Tzu
Te-Tao Ching
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belief is the death of intelligence.
- Robert Anton Wilson
Cosmic Trigger: Die letzten Geheimnisse der Illuminaten oder An den Grenzen des erweiterten Bewusstseins
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Take it easy, but take it.
- Woody Guthrie
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Anyway—because we are readers, we don't have to wait for some communications executive to decide what we should think about next—and how we should think about it. We can fill our heads with anything from aardvarks to zucchinis—at any time of night or day.
- Kurt Vonnegut
Palm Sunday: An Autobiographical Collage
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Knowledge is power is time is money.
- Robert Thier
Storm and Silence
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