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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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If I were to ask you to open two novels, and compare the circumstances of each protagonist, asking you to chose who is “better,” you may find this ridiculous. You may tell me these characters have been forged in two different worlds, around different people, and they each have their own inherent purposes. They’re traveling different paths, and they’ll traverse their paths at different speeds, as their meant to. Great. So as such, never again compare yourself to another.
- Daniel V Chappell
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; the man who does not "understand" a woman is happy to replace his subjective deficiency with an objective resistance; instead of admitting his ignorance, he recognizes the presence of a mystery exterior to himself: here is an excuse that flatters his laziness and vanity at the same time.
- Simone de Beauvoir
The Second Sex
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There's always something in it for the person who is allowing to be taken advantage of." Psychotherapist David in Type 1 Sociopath
- P.A. Speers
Type 1 Sociopath - When Difficult People Are More Than Just Difficult People
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There is nothing good in this world that does not have some filth in its origin.
- Anton Chekhov
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Look, girls know when they’re cute,” he said. “You don’t have to tell them. All they need to do is look in the mirror. I have one friend out in New York, an attorney. She moved out there after the school year to take the bar. She doesn’t have a job. I was like, ‘How are you going to get a job there in this market?’ And she’s like, ‘I’ll wink and I’ll smile.’ She’s a pretty girl. Whether that works despite her poor grades is yet to be seen.
- Daniel Amory
Minor Snobs
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If you appreciate the small things, you're likely to get the big ones.
- Jonas Eriksson
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Make life easier by living in the present and believing in the future.
- Jonas Eriksson
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Flexibility makes buildings to be stronger, imagine what it can do to your soul.
- Carlos Barrios
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Crime and punishment grow out of one stem. Punishment is a fruit that unsuspected ripens within the flower of the pleasure which concealed it. Cause and effect, means and ends, seed and fruit, cannot be severed; for the effect already blooms in the cause, the end preexists in the means, the fruit in the seed.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Self-Reliance: An Excerpt from Collected Essays, First Series
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These wisest men of all ages should be scrutinized closely. Were they all perhaps shaky on their legs? Tottery? Decadent? Late? Could it be that wisdom appears on earth as a Raven, attracted by a little whiff of carrion?
- Friedrich Nietzsche
Twilight of the Idols
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We did all the tourist crap, but I just wanted to sit in a cafe and watch people
- Sara Shepard
Ruthless
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But walking causes absorption. Walking interminably, taking in through your pores the height of the mountains when you are confronting them at length, breathing in the shape of the hills for hours at a time during a slow descent. The body becomes steeped in the earth it treads. And thus, gradually, it stops being in the landscape: it becomes the landscape. That doesn’t have to mean dissolution, as if the walker were fading away to become a mere inflection, a footnote. It’s more a flashing moment: sudden flame, time catching fire. And here, the feeling of eternity is all at once that vibration between presences. Eternity, here, in a spark.
- Frédéric Gros
A Philosophy of Walking
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You have made the moon," The Jester said. "That is the moon.
- James Thurber
Many Moons
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Never let your uniqueness be compromised
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I [am] obliged to recur ultimately to my habitual anodyne, "I feel: therefore I exist." I feel bodies which are not myself: there are other existencies then. I call them "matter". I feel them changing place. This gives me "motion". Where there is an absence of matter, I call it "void", or "nothing", or "immaterial space". On the basis of sensation, of matter and motion, we may erect the fabric of all the certainties we can have or need.
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MIGHT, something God only has.
- A Gentlemen
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I believed that I was approaching the end of my days without having tasted to the full any of the pleasures for which my heart thirsted...without having ever tasted that passion which, through lack of an object, was always suppressed. ...The impossibility of attaining the real persons precipitated me into the land of chimeras; and seeing nothing that existed worthy of my exalted feelings, I fostered them in an ideal world which my creative imagination soon peopled with beings after my own heart.
- Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Confessions
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There is no sickness worse for me than words that to be kind must lie.
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An apple a day keeps the doctor away.' But eating too many, is quite enough-plenty. And you'll have to go see the good doc anyway.
- Solange nicole
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A philosopher is a lover of wisdom, not of knowledge, which for all its great uses ultimately suffers from the crippling effect of ephemerality. All knowledge is transient linked to the world around it and subject to change as the world changes, whereas wisdom, true wisdom is eternal immutable. To be philosophical one must love wisdom for its own sake, accept its permanent validity and yet its perpetual irrelevance. It is the fate of the wise to understand the process of history and yet never to shape it.
- Shashi Tharoor
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We must think beyond ourselves
- Kevin J. Anderson
A Forest of Stars
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[T]he concern of man is not his future but his present, not the world but his soul. We must be just, we must strive, we must engage ourselves with the business of the world for our own sake, because through that, and through contemplation in equal measure, our soul is purified and brought closer to the divine. ... Thought and deed conjoined are crucial. ... The attempt must be made; the outcome is irrelevant. Right action is a pale material reflection of the divine, but reflection it is, nonetheless. Define your goal and exert reason to accomplish it by virtuous action; successs or failure is secondary.
- Iain Pears
The Dream of Scipio
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No one species shall make the life of the world its own.' … That's one expression of the law. Here's another: 'The world was not made for any one species.
- Daniel Quinn
Ishmael: An Adventure of the Mind and Spirit
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Would Crazy Horse have spent this much to remodel a kitchen?
- Ian Frazier
On the Rez
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If I were to ask you to open two novels, and compare the circumstances of each protagonist, asking you to chose who is “better,” you may find this ridiculous. You may tell me these characters have been forged in two different worlds, around different people, and they each have their own inherent purposes. They’re traveling different paths, and they’ll traverse their paths at different speeds, as their meant to. Great. So as such, never again compare yourself to another.
- Daniel V Chappell
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; the man who does not "understand" a woman is happy to replace his subjective deficiency with an objective resistance; instead of admitting his ignorance, he recognizes the presence of a mystery exterior to himself: here is an excuse that flatters his laziness and vanity at the same time.
- Simone de Beauvoir
The Second Sex
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There's always something in it for the person who is allowing to be taken advantage of." Psychotherapist David in Type 1 Sociopath
- P.A. Speers
Type 1 Sociopath - When Difficult People Are More Than Just Difficult People
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There is nothing good in this world that does not have some filth in its origin.
- Anton Chekhov
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Look, girls know when they’re cute,” he said. “You don’t have to tell them. All they need to do is look in the mirror. I have one friend out in New York, an attorney. She moved out there after the school year to take the bar. She doesn’t have a job. I was like, ‘How are you going to get a job there in this market?’ And she’s like, ‘I’ll wink and I’ll smile.’ She’s a pretty girl. Whether that works despite her poor grades is yet to be seen.
- Daniel Amory
Minor Snobs
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If you appreciate the small things, you're likely to get the big ones.
- Jonas Eriksson
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Make life easier by living in the present and believing in the future.
- Jonas Eriksson
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Flexibility makes buildings to be stronger, imagine what it can do to your soul.
- Carlos Barrios
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Crime and punishment grow out of one stem. Punishment is a fruit that unsuspected ripens within the flower of the pleasure which concealed it. Cause and effect, means and ends, seed and fruit, cannot be severed; for the effect already blooms in the cause, the end preexists in the means, the fruit in the seed.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Self-Reliance: An Excerpt from Collected Essays, First Series
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These wisest men of all ages should be scrutinized closely. Were they all perhaps shaky on their legs? Tottery? Decadent? Late? Could it be that wisdom appears on earth as a Raven, attracted by a little whiff of carrion?
- Friedrich Nietzsche
Twilight of the Idols
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We did all the tourist crap, but I just wanted to sit in a cafe and watch people
- Sara Shepard
Ruthless
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But walking causes absorption. Walking interminably, taking in through your pores the height of the mountains when you are confronting them at length, breathing in the shape of the hills for hours at a time during a slow descent. The body becomes steeped in the earth it treads. And thus, gradually, it stops being in the landscape: it becomes the landscape. That doesn’t have to mean dissolution, as if the walker were fading away to become a mere inflection, a footnote. It’s more a flashing moment: sudden flame, time catching fire. And here, the feeling of eternity is all at once that vibration between presences. Eternity, here, in a spark.
- Frédéric Gros
A Philosophy of Walking
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You have made the moon," The Jester said. "That is the moon.
- James Thurber
Many Moons
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Never let your uniqueness be compromised
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
I [am] obliged to recur ultimately to my habitual anodyne, "I feel: therefore I exist." I feel bodies which are not myself: there are other existencies then. I call them "matter". I feel them changing place. This gives me "motion". Where there is an absence of matter, I call it "void", or "nothing", or "immaterial space". On the basis of sensation, of matter and motion, we may erect the fabric of all the certainties we can have or need.
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
MIGHT, something God only has.
- A Gentlemen
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I believed that I was approaching the end of my days without having tasted to the full any of the pleasures for which my heart thirsted...without having ever tasted that passion which, through lack of an object, was always suppressed. ...The impossibility of attaining the real persons precipitated me into the land of chimeras; and seeing nothing that existed worthy of my exalted feelings, I fostered them in an ideal world which my creative imagination soon peopled with beings after my own heart.
- Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Confessions
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There is no sickness worse for me than words that to be kind must lie.
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An apple a day keeps the doctor away.' But eating too many, is quite enough-plenty. And you'll have to go see the good doc anyway.
- Solange nicole
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A philosopher is a lover of wisdom, not of knowledge, which for all its great uses ultimately suffers from the crippling effect of ephemerality. All knowledge is transient linked to the world around it and subject to change as the world changes, whereas wisdom, true wisdom is eternal immutable. To be philosophical one must love wisdom for its own sake, accept its permanent validity and yet its perpetual irrelevance. It is the fate of the wise to understand the process of history and yet never to shape it.
- Shashi Tharoor
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
We must think beyond ourselves
- Kevin J. Anderson
A Forest of Stars
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[T]he concern of man is not his future but his present, not the world but his soul. We must be just, we must strive, we must engage ourselves with the business of the world for our own sake, because through that, and through contemplation in equal measure, our soul is purified and brought closer to the divine. ... Thought and deed conjoined are crucial. ... The attempt must be made; the outcome is irrelevant. Right action is a pale material reflection of the divine, but reflection it is, nonetheless. Define your goal and exert reason to accomplish it by virtuous action; successs or failure is secondary.
- Iain Pears
The Dream of Scipio
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No one species shall make the life of the world its own.' … That's one expression of the law. Here's another: 'The world was not made for any one species.
- Daniel Quinn
Ishmael: An Adventure of the Mind and Spirit
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Would Crazy Horse have spent this much to remodel a kitchen?
- Ian Frazier
On the Rez
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If I were to ask you to open two novels, and compare the circumstances of each protagonist, asking you to chose who is “better,” you may find this ridiculous. You may tell me these characters have been forged in two different worlds, around different people, and they each have their own inherent purposes. They’re traveling different paths, and they’ll traverse their paths at different speeds, as their meant to. Great. So as such, never again compare yourself to another.
- Daniel V Chappell
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; the man who does not "understand" a woman is happy to replace his subjective deficiency with an objective resistance; instead of admitting his ignorance, he recognizes the presence of a mystery exterior to himself: here is an excuse that flatters his laziness and vanity at the same time.
- Simone de Beauvoir
The Second Sex
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There's always something in it for the person who is allowing to be taken advantage of." Psychotherapist David in Type 1 Sociopath
- P.A. Speers
Type 1 Sociopath - When Difficult People Are More Than Just Difficult People
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
There is nothing good in this world that does not have some filth in its origin.
- Anton Chekhov
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Look, girls know when they’re cute,” he said. “You don’t have to tell them. All they need to do is look in the mirror. I have one friend out in New York, an attorney. She moved out there after the school year to take the bar. She doesn’t have a job. I was like, ‘How are you going to get a job there in this market?’ And she’s like, ‘I’ll wink and I’ll smile.’ She’s a pretty girl. Whether that works despite her poor grades is yet to be seen.
- Daniel Amory
Minor Snobs
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If you appreciate the small things, you're likely to get the big ones.
- Jonas Eriksson
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Make life easier by living in the present and believing in the future.
- Jonas Eriksson
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Flexibility makes buildings to be stronger, imagine what it can do to your soul.
- Carlos Barrios
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Crime and punishment grow out of one stem. Punishment is a fruit that unsuspected ripens within the flower of the pleasure which concealed it. Cause and effect, means and ends, seed and fruit, cannot be severed; for the effect already blooms in the cause, the end preexists in the means, the fruit in the seed.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Self-Reliance: An Excerpt from Collected Essays, First Series
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
These wisest men of all ages should be scrutinized closely. Were they all perhaps shaky on their legs? Tottery? Decadent? Late? Could it be that wisdom appears on earth as a Raven, attracted by a little whiff of carrion?
- Friedrich Nietzsche
Twilight of the Idols
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
We did all the tourist crap, but I just wanted to sit in a cafe and watch people
- Sara Shepard
Ruthless
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
But walking causes absorption. Walking interminably, taking in through your pores the height of the mountains when you are confronting them at length, breathing in the shape of the hills for hours at a time during a slow descent. The body becomes steeped in the earth it treads. And thus, gradually, it stops being in the landscape: it becomes the landscape. That doesn’t have to mean dissolution, as if the walker were fading away to become a mere inflection, a footnote. It’s more a flashing moment: sudden flame, time catching fire. And here, the feeling of eternity is all at once that vibration between presences. Eternity, here, in a spark.
- Frédéric Gros
A Philosophy of Walking
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
You have made the moon," The Jester said. "That is the moon.
- James Thurber
Many Moons
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Never let your uniqueness be compromised
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
I [am] obliged to recur ultimately to my habitual anodyne, "I feel: therefore I exist." I feel bodies which are not myself: there are other existencies then. I call them "matter". I feel them changing place. This gives me "motion". Where there is an absence of matter, I call it "void", or "nothing", or "immaterial space". On the basis of sensation, of matter and motion, we may erect the fabric of all the certainties we can have or need.
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
MIGHT, something God only has.
- A Gentlemen
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I believed that I was approaching the end of my days without having tasted to the full any of the pleasures for which my heart thirsted...without having ever tasted that passion which, through lack of an object, was always suppressed. ...The impossibility of attaining the real persons precipitated me into the land of chimeras; and seeing nothing that existed worthy of my exalted feelings, I fostered them in an ideal world which my creative imagination soon peopled with beings after my own heart.
- Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Confessions
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There is no sickness worse for me than words that to be kind must lie.
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
An apple a day keeps the doctor away.' But eating too many, is quite enough-plenty. And you'll have to go see the good doc anyway.
- Solange nicole
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
A philosopher is a lover of wisdom, not of knowledge, which for all its great uses ultimately suffers from the crippling effect of ephemerality. All knowledge is transient linked to the world around it and subject to change as the world changes, whereas wisdom, true wisdom is eternal immutable. To be philosophical one must love wisdom for its own sake, accept its permanent validity and yet its perpetual irrelevance. It is the fate of the wise to understand the process of history and yet never to shape it.
- Shashi Tharoor
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
We must think beyond ourselves
- Kevin J. Anderson
A Forest of Stars
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
[T]he concern of man is not his future but his present, not the world but his soul. We must be just, we must strive, we must engage ourselves with the business of the world for our own sake, because through that, and through contemplation in equal measure, our soul is purified and brought closer to the divine. ... Thought and deed conjoined are crucial. ... The attempt must be made; the outcome is irrelevant. Right action is a pale material reflection of the divine, but reflection it is, nonetheless. Define your goal and exert reason to accomplish it by virtuous action; successs or failure is secondary.
- Iain Pears
The Dream of Scipio
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No one species shall make the life of the world its own.' … That's one expression of the law. Here's another: 'The world was not made for any one species.
- Daniel Quinn
Ishmael: An Adventure of the Mind and Spirit
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Would Crazy Horse have spent this much to remodel a kitchen?
- Ian Frazier
On the Rez
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