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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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Creation and destruction are the two ends of the same moment. And everything between the creation and the next destruction is the journey of life.
- Amish Tripathi
The Oath of the Vayuputras
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Calvin:"It says here that 'religion is the opiate of the masses.'...what do you suppose that means?"
Television: "...it means that Karl Marx hadn't seen anything yet
- Bill Watterson
Calvin and Hobbes: Sunday Pages, 1985-1995: An Exhibition Catalogue
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Philosophy begins in wonder. And at the end when philosophic thought has done its best the wonder remains.
- Alfred North Whitehead
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The perfectly ordinary girl and the great philosopher are alike: for both, the smallest triviality can become the vision that wipes out the world.
- Yukio Mishima
The Decay of the Angel
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We seem to inhabit a universe made up of a small number of elements-particles-bits that swirl in chaotic clouds, occasionally clustering together in geometrically logical temporary configurations.
- Timothy Leary
Chaos & Cyber Culture
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I consist of body and soul - in the worlds of a child. And why shouldn't we speak like children? But the enlightened, the knowledgealbe would say: I am body through and through, nothing more; and the soul is just a word for something on the body.
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Reh Gyi Rasm-e-Azan, Rooh-e-Bilali Na Rahi
Falsafa Reh Gya, Talqeen-e-Ghazali Na Rahi

Azan yet sounds, but never now Like Bilal’s, soulfully;
Philosophy, conviction-less, Now mourns its Ghazzali
- Allama Mohammad Iqbal
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As long as one believes in philosophy, one is healthy; sickness begins when one starts to think.
- Emil Cioran
Tears and Saints
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Knowledge is responsibility, which is why people resist knowledge.
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An attempt to achieve the good by force is like an attempt to provide a man with a picture gallery at the price of cutting out his eyes.
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When we can weave a profound understanding of human emotions with a matrix of philosophy and a touch of poetry, we can create a captivating life canvas for reflection on Love, Happiness, and Insight. (“Love and Happiness and Insight”)
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We are supposed to call poison medicine and we wonder why we're always sick.
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Everybody talks, but there is no conversation.
- Dejan Stojanovic
The Sun Watches the Sun
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When a youth was giving himself airs in the Theatre and saying, 'I am wise, for I have conversed with many wise men,' Epictetus replied, 'I too have conversed with many rich men, yet I am not rich!’.
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Words are made for a certain exactness of thought, as tears are for a certain degree of pain. What is least distinct cannot be named; what is clearest is unutterable.
- Rene Daumal
A Night of Serious Drinking
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Creativity sparks originality, which then manifests itself into what we call evolution. To depreciate imagination is to depreciate life.
- Al Stone
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Life's managed, not cured.
- Phillip C. Mcgraw
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When people have invested their identities into clichés, the only counter argument they have is 'being offended'.
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Listen to me, Thorfinn. You have no enemies. No one has any enemies. There is no one that you should hurt.
- Makoto Yukimura
Vinland Saga Omnibus, Vol. 1
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In reality there are no separate events. Life moves along like water, it's all connected to the source of the river is connected to the mouth and the ocean.
- Alan Wilson Watts
The Essential Alan Watts
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Now that science has helped us to overcome the awe of the unknown in nature, we are the slaves of social pressures of our own making. When called upon to act independently, we cry for patterns, systems, and authorities. If by enlightenment and intellectual progress we mean the freeing of man from superstitious belief in evil forces, in demons and fairies, in blind fate--in short, the emancipation from fear--then denunciation of what is currently called reason is the greatest service reason can render.
- Max Horkheimer
Eclipse of Reason
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Conformity to the present is invisibility to the future.
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Be like water making its way through cracks. Do not be assertive, but adjust to the object, and you shall find a way round or through it. If nothing within you stays rigid, outward things will disclose themselves.

Empty your mind, be formless. Shapeless, like water. If you put water into a cup, it becomes the cup. You put water into a bottle and it becomes the bottle. You put it in a teapot it becomes the teapot. Now, water can flow or it can crash. Be water my friend.
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There are so many kinds of time. The time by which we measure our lives. Months and years. Or the big time, the time that raises mountains and makes stars. Or all the things that happen between one heartbeat and the next. Its hard to live in all those kinds of times. Easy to forget that you live in all of them.
- Robert Charles Wilson
Spin
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Creation and destruction are the two ends of the same moment. And everything between the creation and the next destruction is the journey of life.
- Amish Tripathi
The Oath of the Vayuputras
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Calvin:"It says here that 'religion is the opiate of the masses.'...what do you suppose that means?"
Television: "...it means that Karl Marx hadn't seen anything yet
- Bill Watterson
Calvin and Hobbes: Sunday Pages, 1985-1995: An Exhibition Catalogue
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Philosophy begins in wonder. And at the end when philosophic thought has done its best the wonder remains.
- Alfred North Whitehead
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The perfectly ordinary girl and the great philosopher are alike: for both, the smallest triviality can become the vision that wipes out the world.
- Yukio Mishima
The Decay of the Angel
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We seem to inhabit a universe made up of a small number of elements-particles-bits that swirl in chaotic clouds, occasionally clustering together in geometrically logical temporary configurations.
- Timothy Leary
Chaos & Cyber Culture
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I consist of body and soul - in the worlds of a child. And why shouldn't we speak like children? But the enlightened, the knowledgealbe would say: I am body through and through, nothing more; and the soul is just a word for something on the body.
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Reh Gyi Rasm-e-Azan, Rooh-e-Bilali Na Rahi
Falsafa Reh Gya, Talqeen-e-Ghazali Na Rahi

Azan yet sounds, but never now Like Bilal’s, soulfully;
Philosophy, conviction-less, Now mourns its Ghazzali
- Allama Mohammad Iqbal
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As long as one believes in philosophy, one is healthy; sickness begins when one starts to think.
- Emil Cioran
Tears and Saints
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Knowledge is responsibility, which is why people resist knowledge.
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An attempt to achieve the good by force is like an attempt to provide a man with a picture gallery at the price of cutting out his eyes.
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When we can weave a profound understanding of human emotions with a matrix of philosophy and a touch of poetry, we can create a captivating life canvas for reflection on Love, Happiness, and Insight. (“Love and Happiness and Insight”)
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We are supposed to call poison medicine and we wonder why we're always sick.
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Everybody talks, but there is no conversation.
- Dejan Stojanovic
The Sun Watches the Sun
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When a youth was giving himself airs in the Theatre and saying, 'I am wise, for I have conversed with many wise men,' Epictetus replied, 'I too have conversed with many rich men, yet I am not rich!’.
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Words are made for a certain exactness of thought, as tears are for a certain degree of pain. What is least distinct cannot be named; what is clearest is unutterable.
- Rene Daumal
A Night of Serious Drinking
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Creativity sparks originality, which then manifests itself into what we call evolution. To depreciate imagination is to depreciate life.
- Al Stone
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Life's managed, not cured.
- Phillip C. Mcgraw
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When people have invested their identities into clichés, the only counter argument they have is 'being offended'.
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Listen to me, Thorfinn. You have no enemies. No one has any enemies. There is no one that you should hurt.
- Makoto Yukimura
Vinland Saga Omnibus, Vol. 1
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In reality there are no separate events. Life moves along like water, it's all connected to the source of the river is connected to the mouth and the ocean.
- Alan Wilson Watts
The Essential Alan Watts
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Now that science has helped us to overcome the awe of the unknown in nature, we are the slaves of social pressures of our own making. When called upon to act independently, we cry for patterns, systems, and authorities. If by enlightenment and intellectual progress we mean the freeing of man from superstitious belief in evil forces, in demons and fairies, in blind fate--in short, the emancipation from fear--then denunciation of what is currently called reason is the greatest service reason can render.
- Max Horkheimer
Eclipse of Reason
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Conformity to the present is invisibility to the future.
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Be like water making its way through cracks. Do not be assertive, but adjust to the object, and you shall find a way round or through it. If nothing within you stays rigid, outward things will disclose themselves.

Empty your mind, be formless. Shapeless, like water. If you put water into a cup, it becomes the cup. You put water into a bottle and it becomes the bottle. You put it in a teapot it becomes the teapot. Now, water can flow or it can crash. Be water my friend.
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There are so many kinds of time. The time by which we measure our lives. Months and years. Or the big time, the time that raises mountains and makes stars. Or all the things that happen between one heartbeat and the next. Its hard to live in all those kinds of times. Easy to forget that you live in all of them.
- Robert Charles Wilson
Spin
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Creation and destruction are the two ends of the same moment. And everything between the creation and the next destruction is the journey of life.
- Amish Tripathi
The Oath of the Vayuputras
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Calvin:"It says here that 'religion is the opiate of the masses.'...what do you suppose that means?"
Television: "...it means that Karl Marx hadn't seen anything yet
- Bill Watterson
Calvin and Hobbes: Sunday Pages, 1985-1995: An Exhibition Catalogue
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Philosophy begins in wonder. And at the end when philosophic thought has done its best the wonder remains.
- Alfred North Whitehead
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
The perfectly ordinary girl and the great philosopher are alike: for both, the smallest triviality can become the vision that wipes out the world.
- Yukio Mishima
The Decay of the Angel
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
We seem to inhabit a universe made up of a small number of elements-particles-bits that swirl in chaotic clouds, occasionally clustering together in geometrically logical temporary configurations.
- Timothy Leary
Chaos & Cyber Culture
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I consist of body and soul - in the worlds of a child. And why shouldn't we speak like children? But the enlightened, the knowledgealbe would say: I am body through and through, nothing more; and the soul is just a word for something on the body.
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Reh Gyi Rasm-e-Azan, Rooh-e-Bilali Na Rahi
Falsafa Reh Gya, Talqeen-e-Ghazali Na Rahi

Azan yet sounds, but never now Like Bilal’s, soulfully;
Philosophy, conviction-less, Now mourns its Ghazzali
- Allama Mohammad Iqbal
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As long as one believes in philosophy, one is healthy; sickness begins when one starts to think.
- Emil Cioran
Tears and Saints
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Knowledge is responsibility, which is why people resist knowledge.
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
An attempt to achieve the good by force is like an attempt to provide a man with a picture gallery at the price of cutting out his eyes.
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
When we can weave a profound understanding of human emotions with a matrix of philosophy and a touch of poetry, we can create a captivating life canvas for reflection on Love, Happiness, and Insight. (“Love and Happiness and Insight”)
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
We are supposed to call poison medicine and we wonder why we're always sick.
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Everybody talks, but there is no conversation.
- Dejan Stojanovic
The Sun Watches the Sun
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When a youth was giving himself airs in the Theatre and saying, 'I am wise, for I have conversed with many wise men,' Epictetus replied, 'I too have conversed with many rich men, yet I am not rich!’.
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Words are made for a certain exactness of thought, as tears are for a certain degree of pain. What is least distinct cannot be named; what is clearest is unutterable.
- Rene Daumal
A Night of Serious Drinking
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Creativity sparks originality, which then manifests itself into what we call evolution. To depreciate imagination is to depreciate life.
- Al Stone
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Life's managed, not cured.
- Phillip C. Mcgraw
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
When people have invested their identities into clichés, the only counter argument they have is 'being offended'.
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Listen to me, Thorfinn. You have no enemies. No one has any enemies. There is no one that you should hurt.
- Makoto Yukimura
Vinland Saga Omnibus, Vol. 1
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
In reality there are no separate events. Life moves along like water, it's all connected to the source of the river is connected to the mouth and the ocean.
- Alan Wilson Watts
The Essential Alan Watts
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Now that science has helped us to overcome the awe of the unknown in nature, we are the slaves of social pressures of our own making. When called upon to act independently, we cry for patterns, systems, and authorities. If by enlightenment and intellectual progress we mean the freeing of man from superstitious belief in evil forces, in demons and fairies, in blind fate--in short, the emancipation from fear--then denunciation of what is currently called reason is the greatest service reason can render.
- Max Horkheimer
Eclipse of Reason
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Conformity to the present is invisibility to the future.
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Be like water making its way through cracks. Do not be assertive, but adjust to the object, and you shall find a way round or through it. If nothing within you stays rigid, outward things will disclose themselves.

Empty your mind, be formless. Shapeless, like water. If you put water into a cup, it becomes the cup. You put water into a bottle and it becomes the bottle. You put it in a teapot it becomes the teapot. Now, water can flow or it can crash. Be water my friend.
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
There are so many kinds of time. The time by which we measure our lives. Months and years. Or the big time, the time that raises mountains and makes stars. Or all the things that happen between one heartbeat and the next. Its hard to live in all those kinds of times. Easy to forget that you live in all of them.
- Robert Charles Wilson
Spin
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