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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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Some of us are busy doing things; some of us are busy complaining.
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The hardest thing in the world is to let go of who you once thought you were and to manifest your true self, at the risk of being unloved. This is self-actualization.
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Sometimes the sound of silence is the most deafening sound of all.
- K.L. Toth
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Men have such a good opinion of themselves, of their mental superiority and intellectual depth; they believe themselves so skilled in discerning the true from the false, the path of safety from those of error, that they should be forbidden as much as possible the perusal of philosophic writings.
- Al-Ghazali
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If we are in a general way permitted to regard human activity in the realm of the beautiful as a liberation of the soul, as a release from constraint and restriction, in short to consider that art does actually alleviate the most overpowering and tragic catastrophes by means of the creations it offers to our contemplation and enjoyment, it is the art of music which conducts us to the final summit of that ascent to freedom.
- Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
On the Arts: Selections from G.W.F. Hegel's Aesthetics or the Philosophy of Fine Art
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The ramdomness of events in the world is so lacking in logic that we give it names like destiny, fate, karma and kismat to deal with the irrationality of its sequence
- Anirban Bose
Bombay Rains, Bombay Girls
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On the one hand, all truth is relative; on the other hand, postmodernism tells it like it really is.
On the one hand, all cultures are equally deserving of respect; on the other, Western culture is uniquely destructive and bad.
Values are subjective--but sexism and racism are really evil.
Technology is bad and destructive--and it is unfair that some people have more technology than others.
Tolerance is good and dominance is bad--but when postmodernists come to power, political correctness follows.
- Stephen Hicks
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Choose to hustle now, to work hard now, to make all the sacrifice now. So that you can enjoy your tomorrow. Whatever it is that you suppose to do now. If you don't do it now, it will affect you badly for the rest of your life.
- De philosopher DJ Kyos
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Fear is nothing more than a negative assessment of risk.
- Moses Guru
Earth and Earthlings
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You're hungry, you see food, and you get excited. You never question where did the hunger come from. You didn't sign up for this endless cycle of hunger and food, problem and solution, question and answer. You're the eternity.
- Shunya
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The true philosopher is a man who says "All right," and goes to sleep in his armchair.
- P.G. Wodehouse
Mike at Wrykyn
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Life is a magical journey, so travel endlessly to unfold its profound and heart touching beauty.
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We are all dying to give our lives away to something, maybe. God or Satan, politics or grammar, topology or philately (...) To games or needles, to some other person.
- David Foster Wallace
Infinite Jest
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Yet even in the loneliness of the canyon I knew there were others like me who had brothers they did not understand but wanted to help. We are probably those referred to as "our brother's keepers," possessed of one of the oldest and possible one of the most futile and certainly one of the most haunting instincts. It will not let us go.
- Norman Maclean
A River Runs Through It and Other Stories
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You can recognize a small truth because its opposite is a falsehood. The opposite of a great truth is another truth.
- Niels Bohr
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See the moon? It hates us.
- Donald Barthelme
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A hydrogen atom in a cell at the end of my nose was once part of an elephant's trunk. A carbon atom in my cardiac muscle was once in the tail of a dinosaur.
- Jostein Gaarder
Sophie’s World
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Metaphysics means nothing but an unusually obstinate effort to think clearly. The fundamental conceptions of psychology are practically very clear to us, but theoretically they are very confused, and one easily makes the obscurest assumptions in this science without realizing, until challenged, what internal difficulties they involve.
- William James
The Principles of Psychology: Volume 1
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Of course there’s a risk that that could happen, but what is the alternative? To never allow myself to get close to anyone ever again? Never know the joy of loving someone for fear that it could end up in tears? My heart might stay safe, but it wouldn’t be much of a life.
- Chantelle Shaw
The Ultimate Risk
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A scientist may not be sure of the answer, but he's often sure he can find one. And that's a condition which is clearly not enjoyed by philosophy.
- B.F. Skinner
Walden Two
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Marriage can be made to work if both the partners can see beyond themselves and understand the limitations,needs and abilities of the other person and are willing to embrace the positive and negative aspects of each other in their understanding.
But it never happens that way. We expect others to understand and comply with us while we fail to do the same.
Thus marriage loses all it's sheen by the time the couple reaches middle age.
- Chitralekha Paul
Delayed Monsoon
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He who writes well runs the civilization. Everyone else does the grunt work.
- Prof. Kenneth W. Harl
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This intriguing 'somewhere else,' where intelligence no longer matters and awareness melts away, commands us to cherish our remains of innocence -- because of all the characteristics of human nature, the richest by far is passion for the perfectly useless.
- Hans Silvester
Into the Wind: The Art of the Kite
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Representatives of truth. The champions of truth are hardest to find, not when it is dangerous to tell it, but rather when it is boring.
- Friedrich Nietzsche
Human, All Too Human: A Book for Free Spirits
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Some of us are busy doing things; some of us are busy complaining.
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The hardest thing in the world is to let go of who you once thought you were and to manifest your true self, at the risk of being unloved. This is self-actualization.
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Sometimes the sound of silence is the most deafening sound of all.
- K.L. Toth
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Men have such a good opinion of themselves, of their mental superiority and intellectual depth; they believe themselves so skilled in discerning the true from the false, the path of safety from those of error, that they should be forbidden as much as possible the perusal of philosophic writings.
- Al-Ghazali
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If we are in a general way permitted to regard human activity in the realm of the beautiful as a liberation of the soul, as a release from constraint and restriction, in short to consider that art does actually alleviate the most overpowering and tragic catastrophes by means of the creations it offers to our contemplation and enjoyment, it is the art of music which conducts us to the final summit of that ascent to freedom.
- Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
On the Arts: Selections from G.W.F. Hegel's Aesthetics or the Philosophy of Fine Art
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The ramdomness of events in the world is so lacking in logic that we give it names like destiny, fate, karma and kismat to deal with the irrationality of its sequence
- Anirban Bose
Bombay Rains, Bombay Girls
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On the one hand, all truth is relative; on the other hand, postmodernism tells it like it really is.
On the one hand, all cultures are equally deserving of respect; on the other, Western culture is uniquely destructive and bad.
Values are subjective--but sexism and racism are really evil.
Technology is bad and destructive--and it is unfair that some people have more technology than others.
Tolerance is good and dominance is bad--but when postmodernists come to power, political correctness follows.
- Stephen Hicks
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Choose to hustle now, to work hard now, to make all the sacrifice now. So that you can enjoy your tomorrow. Whatever it is that you suppose to do now. If you don't do it now, it will affect you badly for the rest of your life.
- De philosopher DJ Kyos
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Fear is nothing more than a negative assessment of risk.
- Moses Guru
Earth and Earthlings
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You're hungry, you see food, and you get excited. You never question where did the hunger come from. You didn't sign up for this endless cycle of hunger and food, problem and solution, question and answer. You're the eternity.
- Shunya
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The true philosopher is a man who says "All right," and goes to sleep in his armchair.
- P.G. Wodehouse
Mike at Wrykyn
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Life is a magical journey, so travel endlessly to unfold its profound and heart touching beauty.
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We are all dying to give our lives away to something, maybe. God or Satan, politics or grammar, topology or philately (...) To games or needles, to some other person.
- David Foster Wallace
Infinite Jest
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Yet even in the loneliness of the canyon I knew there were others like me who had brothers they did not understand but wanted to help. We are probably those referred to as "our brother's keepers," possessed of one of the oldest and possible one of the most futile and certainly one of the most haunting instincts. It will not let us go.
- Norman Maclean
A River Runs Through It and Other Stories
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You can recognize a small truth because its opposite is a falsehood. The opposite of a great truth is another truth.
- Niels Bohr
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See the moon? It hates us.
- Donald Barthelme
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A hydrogen atom in a cell at the end of my nose was once part of an elephant's trunk. A carbon atom in my cardiac muscle was once in the tail of a dinosaur.
- Jostein Gaarder
Sophie’s World
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Metaphysics means nothing but an unusually obstinate effort to think clearly. The fundamental conceptions of psychology are practically very clear to us, but theoretically they are very confused, and one easily makes the obscurest assumptions in this science without realizing, until challenged, what internal difficulties they involve.
- William James
The Principles of Psychology: Volume 1
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Of course there’s a risk that that could happen, but what is the alternative? To never allow myself to get close to anyone ever again? Never know the joy of loving someone for fear that it could end up in tears? My heart might stay safe, but it wouldn’t be much of a life.
- Chantelle Shaw
The Ultimate Risk
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A scientist may not be sure of the answer, but he's often sure he can find one. And that's a condition which is clearly not enjoyed by philosophy.
- B.F. Skinner
Walden Two
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Marriage can be made to work if both the partners can see beyond themselves and understand the limitations,needs and abilities of the other person and are willing to embrace the positive and negative aspects of each other in their understanding.
But it never happens that way. We expect others to understand and comply with us while we fail to do the same.
Thus marriage loses all it's sheen by the time the couple reaches middle age.
- Chitralekha Paul
Delayed Monsoon
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He who writes well runs the civilization. Everyone else does the grunt work.
- Prof. Kenneth W. Harl
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This intriguing 'somewhere else,' where intelligence no longer matters and awareness melts away, commands us to cherish our remains of innocence -- because of all the characteristics of human nature, the richest by far is passion for the perfectly useless.
- Hans Silvester
Into the Wind: The Art of the Kite
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Representatives of truth. The champions of truth are hardest to find, not when it is dangerous to tell it, but rather when it is boring.
- Friedrich Nietzsche
Human, All Too Human: A Book for Free Spirits
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Some of us are busy doing things; some of us are busy complaining.
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The hardest thing in the world is to let go of who you once thought you were and to manifest your true self, at the risk of being unloved. This is self-actualization.
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Sometimes the sound of silence is the most deafening sound of all.
- K.L. Toth
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Men have such a good opinion of themselves, of their mental superiority and intellectual depth; they believe themselves so skilled in discerning the true from the false, the path of safety from those of error, that they should be forbidden as much as possible the perusal of philosophic writings.
- Al-Ghazali
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If we are in a general way permitted to regard human activity in the realm of the beautiful as a liberation of the soul, as a release from constraint and restriction, in short to consider that art does actually alleviate the most overpowering and tragic catastrophes by means of the creations it offers to our contemplation and enjoyment, it is the art of music which conducts us to the final summit of that ascent to freedom.
- Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
On the Arts: Selections from G.W.F. Hegel's Aesthetics or the Philosophy of Fine Art
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The ramdomness of events in the world is so lacking in logic that we give it names like destiny, fate, karma and kismat to deal with the irrationality of its sequence
- Anirban Bose
Bombay Rains, Bombay Girls
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On the one hand, all truth is relative; on the other hand, postmodernism tells it like it really is.
On the one hand, all cultures are equally deserving of respect; on the other, Western culture is uniquely destructive and bad.
Values are subjective--but sexism and racism are really evil.
Technology is bad and destructive--and it is unfair that some people have more technology than others.
Tolerance is good and dominance is bad--but when postmodernists come to power, political correctness follows.
- Stephen Hicks
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Choose to hustle now, to work hard now, to make all the sacrifice now. So that you can enjoy your tomorrow. Whatever it is that you suppose to do now. If you don't do it now, it will affect you badly for the rest of your life.
- De philosopher DJ Kyos
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Fear is nothing more than a negative assessment of risk.
- Moses Guru
Earth and Earthlings
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You're hungry, you see food, and you get excited. You never question where did the hunger come from. You didn't sign up for this endless cycle of hunger and food, problem and solution, question and answer. You're the eternity.
- Shunya
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The true philosopher is a man who says "All right," and goes to sleep in his armchair.
- P.G. Wodehouse
Mike at Wrykyn
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Life is a magical journey, so travel endlessly to unfold its profound and heart touching beauty.
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
We are all dying to give our lives away to something, maybe. God or Satan, politics or grammar, topology or philately (...) To games or needles, to some other person.
- David Foster Wallace
Infinite Jest
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Yet even in the loneliness of the canyon I knew there were others like me who had brothers they did not understand but wanted to help. We are probably those referred to as "our brother's keepers," possessed of one of the oldest and possible one of the most futile and certainly one of the most haunting instincts. It will not let us go.
- Norman Maclean
A River Runs Through It and Other Stories
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You can recognize a small truth because its opposite is a falsehood. The opposite of a great truth is another truth.
- Niels Bohr
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See the moon? It hates us.
- Donald Barthelme
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A hydrogen atom in a cell at the end of my nose was once part of an elephant's trunk. A carbon atom in my cardiac muscle was once in the tail of a dinosaur.
- Jostein Gaarder
Sophie’s World
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Metaphysics means nothing but an unusually obstinate effort to think clearly. The fundamental conceptions of psychology are practically very clear to us, but theoretically they are very confused, and one easily makes the obscurest assumptions in this science without realizing, until challenged, what internal difficulties they involve.
- William James
The Principles of Psychology: Volume 1
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Of course there’s a risk that that could happen, but what is the alternative? To never allow myself to get close to anyone ever again? Never know the joy of loving someone for fear that it could end up in tears? My heart might stay safe, but it wouldn’t be much of a life.
- Chantelle Shaw
The Ultimate Risk
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A scientist may not be sure of the answer, but he's often sure he can find one. And that's a condition which is clearly not enjoyed by philosophy.
- B.F. Skinner
Walden Two
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Marriage can be made to work if both the partners can see beyond themselves and understand the limitations,needs and abilities of the other person and are willing to embrace the positive and negative aspects of each other in their understanding.
But it never happens that way. We expect others to understand and comply with us while we fail to do the same.
Thus marriage loses all it's sheen by the time the couple reaches middle age.
- Chitralekha Paul
Delayed Monsoon
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He who writes well runs the civilization. Everyone else does the grunt work.
- Prof. Kenneth W. Harl
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This intriguing 'somewhere else,' where intelligence no longer matters and awareness melts away, commands us to cherish our remains of innocence -- because of all the characteristics of human nature, the richest by far is passion for the perfectly useless.
- Hans Silvester
Into the Wind: The Art of the Kite
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Representatives of truth. The champions of truth are hardest to find, not when it is dangerous to tell it, but rather when it is boring.
- Friedrich Nietzsche
Human, All Too Human: A Book for Free Spirits
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