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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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We are living in the era of premeditation and the perfect crime. Our criminals are no longer helpless children who could plead love as their excuse. On the contrary, they are adults and the have the perfect alibi: philosophy, which can be used for any purpose - even for transforming murderers into judges.
- Albert Camus
The Rebel
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Mankind flung its advance agents ever outward, ever outward. Eventually it flung them out into space, into the colorless, tasteless, weightless sea of outwardness without end.

It flung them like stones.
- Kurt Vonnegut
The Sirens of Titan
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Whoever wishes to become a philosopher must learn not to be frightened by absurdities.
- Bertrand Russell
The Problems of Philosophy
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No law can be sacred to me but that of my nature. Good and bad are but names very readily transferable to that or this; the only right is what is after my constitution; the only wrong is what is against it.
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A breeze, a forgotten summer, a smile, all can fit into a storefront window.
- Dejan Stojanovic
The Sun Watches the Sun
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It has gradually become clear to me what every great philosophy up till now has consisted of – namely, the confession of its originator, and a species of involuntary and unconscious autobiography; and moreover that the moral (or immoral) purpose in every philosophy has constituted the true vital germ out of which the entire plant has always grown.
- Friedrich Nietzsche
Beyond Good and Evil
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Because we have for millenia made moral, aesthetic, religious demands on the world, looked upon it with blind desire, passion or fear, and abandoned ourselves to the bad habits of illogical thinking, this world has gradually become so marvelously variegated, frightful, meaningful, soulful, it has acquired color - but we have been the colorists: it is the human intellect that has made appearances appear and transported its erroneous basic conceptions into things.
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I don’t have a philosophy: I have senses...
If I talk about Nature, it’s not because I know what it is,
But because I love it, and that’s why I love it,
Because when you love you never know what you love,
Or why you love, or what love is.

Loving is eternal innocence,
And the only innocence is not thinking.
- Alberto Caeiro
The Keeper of Sheep
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I remember growing up, saying you’re an artist it sounds pretentious but now it’s one of the only dignified things that you can call yourself.
- Marilyn Manson
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If you don't want anyone to know about your existence, you might as well kill yourself. You're taking up space, air.
- Dave Eggers
A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius
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To live is not to breathe but to act. It is to make use of our organs, our senses, our faculties, of all the parts of ourselves which give us the sentiment of our existence. The man who has lived the most is not he who has counted the most years but he who has most felt life.
- Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Emile, or On Education
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But truly, if I were not Alexander, I would be Diogenes.
- Alexander the Great
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Socrates should have written comics.
- Mark Waid
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It's a philosophical minefield!"

Cabal had a brief mental image of Aristotle walking halfway across an open field before unexpectedly disappearing in a fireball. Descartes and Nietzsche looked on appalled. He pulled himself together.
- Jonathan L. Howard
Johannes Cabal the Necromancer
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Almost everything that distinguishes the modern world from earlier centuries is attibutable to science, which achieved its most spectacular triumphs in the seventeenth century.
- Bertrand Russell
A History of Western Philosophy
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The square root of I is I.
- Vladimir Nabokov
Bend Sinister
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when somebody plays music, you listen. you just follow those sounds, and eventually you understand the music. the point can't be explained in words because music is not words, but after listening for a while, you understand the point of it, and that point is the music itself. in exactly the same way, you can listen to all experiences.
- Alan Wilson Watts
Still the Mind: An Introduction to Meditation
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People will not remember what you did for living,
they will remember how you touched them with kindness and loving.
- Debasish Mridha M.D.
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Man is conceived in sin and born in corruption and he passeth from the stink of the didie to the stench of the shroud. There is always something
(All The King's Men)
- Robert Penn Warren
All the King's Men
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Asshole Proximity Disorder
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Always be friendly, always be kind,
Like the most beautiful flower that you can find.
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But is all this true?" said Brutha.
Didactylos shrugged. "Could be. Could be. We are here and it is now. The way I see it is, after that, everything tends towards guesswork."
"You mean you don't KNOW it's true?" said Brutha.
"I THINK it might be," said Didactylos. "I could be wrong. Not being certain is what being a philosopher is all about.
- Terry Pratchett
Small Gods
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Should philosophy guide experiments, or should experiments guide philosophy?
- Liu Cixin
The Three-Body Problem
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Everything smaller than Heaven bores us because only Heaven is bigger than our hearts.
- Peter Kreeft
Jesus-Shock
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We are living in the era of premeditation and the perfect crime. Our criminals are no longer helpless children who could plead love as their excuse. On the contrary, they are adults and the have the perfect alibi: philosophy, which can be used for any purpose - even for transforming murderers into judges.
- Albert Camus
The Rebel
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Mankind flung its advance agents ever outward, ever outward. Eventually it flung them out into space, into the colorless, tasteless, weightless sea of outwardness without end.

It flung them like stones.
- Kurt Vonnegut
The Sirens of Titan
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Whoever wishes to become a philosopher must learn not to be frightened by absurdities.
- Bertrand Russell
The Problems of Philosophy
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No law can be sacred to me but that of my nature. Good and bad are but names very readily transferable to that or this; the only right is what is after my constitution; the only wrong is what is against it.
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A breeze, a forgotten summer, a smile, all can fit into a storefront window.
- Dejan Stojanovic
The Sun Watches the Sun
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It has gradually become clear to me what every great philosophy up till now has consisted of – namely, the confession of its originator, and a species of involuntary and unconscious autobiography; and moreover that the moral (or immoral) purpose in every philosophy has constituted the true vital germ out of which the entire plant has always grown.
- Friedrich Nietzsche
Beyond Good and Evil
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Because we have for millenia made moral, aesthetic, religious demands on the world, looked upon it with blind desire, passion or fear, and abandoned ourselves to the bad habits of illogical thinking, this world has gradually become so marvelously variegated, frightful, meaningful, soulful, it has acquired color - but we have been the colorists: it is the human intellect that has made appearances appear and transported its erroneous basic conceptions into things.
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
I don’t have a philosophy: I have senses...
If I talk about Nature, it’s not because I know what it is,
But because I love it, and that’s why I love it,
Because when you love you never know what you love,
Or why you love, or what love is.

Loving is eternal innocence,
And the only innocence is not thinking.
- Alberto Caeiro
The Keeper of Sheep
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I remember growing up, saying you’re an artist it sounds pretentious but now it’s one of the only dignified things that you can call yourself.
- Marilyn Manson
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If you don't want anyone to know about your existence, you might as well kill yourself. You're taking up space, air.
- Dave Eggers
A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius
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To live is not to breathe but to act. It is to make use of our organs, our senses, our faculties, of all the parts of ourselves which give us the sentiment of our existence. The man who has lived the most is not he who has counted the most years but he who has most felt life.
- Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Emile, or On Education
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But truly, if I were not Alexander, I would be Diogenes.
- Alexander the Great
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Socrates should have written comics.
- Mark Waid
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It's a philosophical minefield!"

Cabal had a brief mental image of Aristotle walking halfway across an open field before unexpectedly disappearing in a fireball. Descartes and Nietzsche looked on appalled. He pulled himself together.
- Jonathan L. Howard
Johannes Cabal the Necromancer
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Almost everything that distinguishes the modern world from earlier centuries is attibutable to science, which achieved its most spectacular triumphs in the seventeenth century.
- Bertrand Russell
A History of Western Philosophy
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The square root of I is I.
- Vladimir Nabokov
Bend Sinister
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when somebody plays music, you listen. you just follow those sounds, and eventually you understand the music. the point can't be explained in words because music is not words, but after listening for a while, you understand the point of it, and that point is the music itself. in exactly the same way, you can listen to all experiences.
- Alan Wilson Watts
Still the Mind: An Introduction to Meditation
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People will not remember what you did for living,
they will remember how you touched them with kindness and loving.
- Debasish Mridha M.D.
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Man is conceived in sin and born in corruption and he passeth from the stink of the didie to the stench of the shroud. There is always something
(All The King's Men)
- Robert Penn Warren
All the King's Men
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Asshole Proximity Disorder
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Always be friendly, always be kind,
Like the most beautiful flower that you can find.
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But is all this true?" said Brutha.
Didactylos shrugged. "Could be. Could be. We are here and it is now. The way I see it is, after that, everything tends towards guesswork."
"You mean you don't KNOW it's true?" said Brutha.
"I THINK it might be," said Didactylos. "I could be wrong. Not being certain is what being a philosopher is all about.
- Terry Pratchett
Small Gods
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Should philosophy guide experiments, or should experiments guide philosophy?
- Liu Cixin
The Three-Body Problem
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Everything smaller than Heaven bores us because only Heaven is bigger than our hearts.
- Peter Kreeft
Jesus-Shock
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We are living in the era of premeditation and the perfect crime. Our criminals are no longer helpless children who could plead love as their excuse. On the contrary, they are adults and the have the perfect alibi: philosophy, which can be used for any purpose - even for transforming murderers into judges.
- Albert Camus
The Rebel
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Mankind flung its advance agents ever outward, ever outward. Eventually it flung them out into space, into the colorless, tasteless, weightless sea of outwardness without end.

It flung them like stones.
- Kurt Vonnegut
The Sirens of Titan
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Whoever wishes to become a philosopher must learn not to be frightened by absurdities.
- Bertrand Russell
The Problems of Philosophy
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
No law can be sacred to me but that of my nature. Good and bad are but names very readily transferable to that or this; the only right is what is after my constitution; the only wrong is what is against it.
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
A breeze, a forgotten summer, a smile, all can fit into a storefront window.
- Dejan Stojanovic
The Sun Watches the Sun
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
It has gradually become clear to me what every great philosophy up till now has consisted of – namely, the confession of its originator, and a species of involuntary and unconscious autobiography; and moreover that the moral (or immoral) purpose in every philosophy has constituted the true vital germ out of which the entire plant has always grown.
- Friedrich Nietzsche
Beyond Good and Evil
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Because we have for millenia made moral, aesthetic, religious demands on the world, looked upon it with blind desire, passion or fear, and abandoned ourselves to the bad habits of illogical thinking, this world has gradually become so marvelously variegated, frightful, meaningful, soulful, it has acquired color - but we have been the colorists: it is the human intellect that has made appearances appear and transported its erroneous basic conceptions into things.
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
I don’t have a philosophy: I have senses...
If I talk about Nature, it’s not because I know what it is,
But because I love it, and that’s why I love it,
Because when you love you never know what you love,
Or why you love, or what love is.

Loving is eternal innocence,
And the only innocence is not thinking.
- Alberto Caeiro
The Keeper of Sheep
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I remember growing up, saying you’re an artist it sounds pretentious but now it’s one of the only dignified things that you can call yourself.
- Marilyn Manson
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If you don't want anyone to know about your existence, you might as well kill yourself. You're taking up space, air.
- Dave Eggers
A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius
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To live is not to breathe but to act. It is to make use of our organs, our senses, our faculties, of all the parts of ourselves which give us the sentiment of our existence. The man who has lived the most is not he who has counted the most years but he who has most felt life.
- Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Emile, or On Education
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But truly, if I were not Alexander, I would be Diogenes.
- Alexander the Great
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Socrates should have written comics.
- Mark Waid
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
It's a philosophical minefield!"

Cabal had a brief mental image of Aristotle walking halfway across an open field before unexpectedly disappearing in a fireball. Descartes and Nietzsche looked on appalled. He pulled himself together.
- Jonathan L. Howard
Johannes Cabal the Necromancer
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Almost everything that distinguishes the modern world from earlier centuries is attibutable to science, which achieved its most spectacular triumphs in the seventeenth century.
- Bertrand Russell
A History of Western Philosophy
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
The square root of I is I.
- Vladimir Nabokov
Bend Sinister
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
when somebody plays music, you listen. you just follow those sounds, and eventually you understand the music. the point can't be explained in words because music is not words, but after listening for a while, you understand the point of it, and that point is the music itself. in exactly the same way, you can listen to all experiences.
- Alan Wilson Watts
Still the Mind: An Introduction to Meditation
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People will not remember what you did for living,
they will remember how you touched them with kindness and loving.
- Debasish Mridha M.D.
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Man is conceived in sin and born in corruption and he passeth from the stink of the didie to the stench of the shroud. There is always something
(All The King's Men)
- Robert Penn Warren
All the King's Men
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Asshole Proximity Disorder
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Always be friendly, always be kind,
Like the most beautiful flower that you can find.
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
But is all this true?" said Brutha.
Didactylos shrugged. "Could be. Could be. We are here and it is now. The way I see it is, after that, everything tends towards guesswork."
"You mean you don't KNOW it's true?" said Brutha.
"I THINK it might be," said Didactylos. "I could be wrong. Not being certain is what being a philosopher is all about.
- Terry Pratchett
Small Gods
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Should philosophy guide experiments, or should experiments guide philosophy?
- Liu Cixin
The Three-Body Problem
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Everything smaller than Heaven bores us because only Heaven is bigger than our hearts.
- Peter Kreeft
Jesus-Shock
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