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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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I assess the power of a will by how much resistance, pain, torture it endures and knows how to turn to its advantage
- Fredrich Nietzsche
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Look back over the past, with its changing empires that rose and fell, and you can foresee the future too.
- Marcus Aurelius
Meditations
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For the survivor who chooses to testify, it is clear: his duty is to bear witness for the dead and for the living. He has no right to deprive future generations of a past that belongs to our collective memory. To forget would be not only dangerous but offensive; to forget the dead would be akin to killing them a second time.
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To exist is to change, to change is to mature, to mature is to go on creating oneself endlessly.
- Henri Bergson
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It is too difficult to think nobly when one thinks only of earning a living.
- Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Confessions
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One of the greatest tragedies in life is to lose your own sense of self and accept the version of you that is expected by everyone else.
- K.L. Toth
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If you don't behave as you believe, you will end by believing as you behave.
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The pre-Socratic Greek philosopher Parmenides taught that the only things that are real are things which never change... and the pre-Socratic Greek philosopher Heraclitus taught that everything changes. If you superimpose their two views, you get this result: Nothing is real.
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To make light of philosophy is to be a true philosopher.
- Blaise Pascal
Pensées
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The state is that great fiction by which everyone tries to live at the expense of everyone else.
- Frederic Bastiat
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Except our own thoughts, there is nothing absolutely in our power.
- René Descartes
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The better organized the state, the duller its humanity.
- David Mitchell
Cloud Atlas
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To live entirely without a goal! I have glimpsed this state, and have often attained it, without managing to remain there: I am too weak for such happiness.
- Émile Michel Cioran
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A prison becomes a home when you have the key.
- George Sterling
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What sort of philosophers are we, who know absolutely nothing of the origin and destiny of cats?
- Henry David Thoreau
Thoreau Journal 9
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Philosophy cannot be taught; it is the application of the sciences to truth.
- Alexandre Dumas
The Count of Monte Cristo
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Freedom is obedience to self-formulated rules.
- Aristotle
The Nicomachean Ethics
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To be prepared against surprise is to be trained. To be prepared for surprise is to be educated.
- James P. Carse
Finite and Infinite Games: A Vision of Life as Play and Possibility
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People who lean on logic and philosophy and rational exposition end by starving the best part of the mind.
- William Butler Yeats
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There is not much to be got anywhere in the world. It is filled with misery and pain; if a man escapes these, boredeom lies in wait for him at every corner. Nay more; it is evil which generally has the upper hand, and folly that makes the most noise. Fate is cruel and mankind pitiable.
- Arthur Schopenhauer
The Wisdom of Life
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Words are the clothes thoughts wear.
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How very paltry and limited the normal human intellect is, and how little lucidity there is in the human consciousness, may be judged from the fact that, despite the ephemeral brevity of human life, the uncertainty of our existence and the countless enigmas which press upon us from all sides, everyone does not continually and ceaselessly philosophize, but that only the rarest of exceptions do.
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...when he looks at Beauty in the only way that Beauty can be seen - only then will it become possible for him to give birth not to images of virtue (because he's in touch with no images), but to true virtue [arete] (because he is in touch with true Beauty). The love of the gods belongs to anyone who has given to true virtue and nourished it, and if any human being could become immortal, it would be he.
- Plato
The Symposium
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The more he identifies with the dominant images of need, the less he understands his own life and his own desires. The spectacle’s estrangement from the acting subject is expressed by the fact that the individual’s gestures are no longer his own; they are the gestures of someone else who represents them to him.
- Guy Debord
The Society of the Spectacle
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I assess the power of a will by how much resistance, pain, torture it endures and knows how to turn to its advantage
- Fredrich Nietzsche
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Look back over the past, with its changing empires that rose and fell, and you can foresee the future too.
- Marcus Aurelius
Meditations
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For the survivor who chooses to testify, it is clear: his duty is to bear witness for the dead and for the living. He has no right to deprive future generations of a past that belongs to our collective memory. To forget would be not only dangerous but offensive; to forget the dead would be akin to killing them a second time.
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To exist is to change, to change is to mature, to mature is to go on creating oneself endlessly.
- Henri Bergson
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It is too difficult to think nobly when one thinks only of earning a living.
- Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Confessions
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One of the greatest tragedies in life is to lose your own sense of self and accept the version of you that is expected by everyone else.
- K.L. Toth
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If you don't behave as you believe, you will end by believing as you behave.
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The pre-Socratic Greek philosopher Parmenides taught that the only things that are real are things which never change... and the pre-Socratic Greek philosopher Heraclitus taught that everything changes. If you superimpose their two views, you get this result: Nothing is real.
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To make light of philosophy is to be a true philosopher.
- Blaise Pascal
Pensées
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The state is that great fiction by which everyone tries to live at the expense of everyone else.
- Frederic Bastiat
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Except our own thoughts, there is nothing absolutely in our power.
- René Descartes
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The better organized the state, the duller its humanity.
- David Mitchell
Cloud Atlas
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To live entirely without a goal! I have glimpsed this state, and have often attained it, without managing to remain there: I am too weak for such happiness.
- Émile Michel Cioran
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A prison becomes a home when you have the key.
- George Sterling
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What sort of philosophers are we, who know absolutely nothing of the origin and destiny of cats?
- Henry David Thoreau
Thoreau Journal 9
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Philosophy cannot be taught; it is the application of the sciences to truth.
- Alexandre Dumas
The Count of Monte Cristo
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Freedom is obedience to self-formulated rules.
- Aristotle
The Nicomachean Ethics
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To be prepared against surprise is to be trained. To be prepared for surprise is to be educated.
- James P. Carse
Finite and Infinite Games: A Vision of Life as Play and Possibility
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People who lean on logic and philosophy and rational exposition end by starving the best part of the mind.
- William Butler Yeats
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There is not much to be got anywhere in the world. It is filled with misery and pain; if a man escapes these, boredeom lies in wait for him at every corner. Nay more; it is evil which generally has the upper hand, and folly that makes the most noise. Fate is cruel and mankind pitiable.
- Arthur Schopenhauer
The Wisdom of Life
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Words are the clothes thoughts wear.
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How very paltry and limited the normal human intellect is, and how little lucidity there is in the human consciousness, may be judged from the fact that, despite the ephemeral brevity of human life, the uncertainty of our existence and the countless enigmas which press upon us from all sides, everyone does not continually and ceaselessly philosophize, but that only the rarest of exceptions do.
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...when he looks at Beauty in the only way that Beauty can be seen - only then will it become possible for him to give birth not to images of virtue (because he's in touch with no images), but to true virtue [arete] (because he is in touch with true Beauty). The love of the gods belongs to anyone who has given to true virtue and nourished it, and if any human being could become immortal, it would be he.
- Plato
The Symposium
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The more he identifies with the dominant images of need, the less he understands his own life and his own desires. The spectacle’s estrangement from the acting subject is expressed by the fact that the individual’s gestures are no longer his own; they are the gestures of someone else who represents them to him.
- Guy Debord
The Society of the Spectacle
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I assess the power of a will by how much resistance, pain, torture it endures and knows how to turn to its advantage
- Fredrich Nietzsche
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Look back over the past, with its changing empires that rose and fell, and you can foresee the future too.
- Marcus Aurelius
Meditations
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For the survivor who chooses to testify, it is clear: his duty is to bear witness for the dead and for the living. He has no right to deprive future generations of a past that belongs to our collective memory. To forget would be not only dangerous but offensive; to forget the dead would be akin to killing them a second time.
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To exist is to change, to change is to mature, to mature is to go on creating oneself endlessly.
- Henri Bergson
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It is too difficult to think nobly when one thinks only of earning a living.
- Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Confessions
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One of the greatest tragedies in life is to lose your own sense of self and accept the version of you that is expected by everyone else.
- K.L. Toth
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If you don't behave as you believe, you will end by believing as you behave.
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The pre-Socratic Greek philosopher Parmenides taught that the only things that are real are things which never change... and the pre-Socratic Greek philosopher Heraclitus taught that everything changes. If you superimpose their two views, you get this result: Nothing is real.
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
To make light of philosophy is to be a true philosopher.
- Blaise Pascal
Pensées
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The state is that great fiction by which everyone tries to live at the expense of everyone else.
- Frederic Bastiat
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Except our own thoughts, there is nothing absolutely in our power.
- René Descartes
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
The better organized the state, the duller its humanity.
- David Mitchell
Cloud Atlas
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To live entirely without a goal! I have glimpsed this state, and have often attained it, without managing to remain there: I am too weak for such happiness.
- Émile Michel Cioran
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
A prison becomes a home when you have the key.
- George Sterling
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What sort of philosophers are we, who know absolutely nothing of the origin and destiny of cats?
- Henry David Thoreau
Thoreau Journal 9
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Philosophy cannot be taught; it is the application of the sciences to truth.
- Alexandre Dumas
The Count of Monte Cristo
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Freedom is obedience to self-formulated rules.
- Aristotle
The Nicomachean Ethics
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
To be prepared against surprise is to be trained. To be prepared for surprise is to be educated.
- James P. Carse
Finite and Infinite Games: A Vision of Life as Play and Possibility
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
People who lean on logic and philosophy and rational exposition end by starving the best part of the mind.
- William Butler Yeats
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There is not much to be got anywhere in the world. It is filled with misery and pain; if a man escapes these, boredeom lies in wait for him at every corner. Nay more; it is evil which generally has the upper hand, and folly that makes the most noise. Fate is cruel and mankind pitiable.
- Arthur Schopenhauer
The Wisdom of Life
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Words are the clothes thoughts wear.
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
How very paltry and limited the normal human intellect is, and how little lucidity there is in the human consciousness, may be judged from the fact that, despite the ephemeral brevity of human life, the uncertainty of our existence and the countless enigmas which press upon us from all sides, everyone does not continually and ceaselessly philosophize, but that only the rarest of exceptions do.
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
...when he looks at Beauty in the only way that Beauty can be seen - only then will it become possible for him to give birth not to images of virtue (because he's in touch with no images), but to true virtue [arete] (because he is in touch with true Beauty). The love of the gods belongs to anyone who has given to true virtue and nourished it, and if any human being could become immortal, it would be he.
- Plato
The Symposium
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The more he identifies with the dominant images of need, the less he understands his own life and his own desires. The spectacle’s estrangement from the acting subject is expressed by the fact that the individual’s gestures are no longer his own; they are the gestures of someone else who represents them to him.
- Guy Debord
The Society of the Spectacle
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