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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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Often father and daughter look down on mother (woman) together. They exchange meaningful glances when she misses a point. They agree that she is not bright as they are, cannot reason as they do. This collusion does not save the daughter from the mother’s fate.
- Bonnie Burstow
Radical Feminist Therapy: Working in the Context of Violence
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Doubt as sin. — Christianity has done its utmost to close the circle and declared even doubt to be sin. One is supposed to be cast into belief without reason, by a miracle, and from then on to swim in it as in the brightest and least ambiguous of elements: even a glance towards land, even the thought that one perhaps exists for something else as well as swimming, even the slightest impulse of our amphibious nature — is sin! And notice that all this means that the foundation of belief and all reflection on its origin is likewise excluded as sinful. What is wanted are blindness and intoxication and an eternal song over the waves in which reason has drowned.
- Friedrich Nietzsche
Daybreak: Thoughts on the Prejudices of Morality
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Learning does not make one learned: there are those who have knowledge and those who have understanding. The first requires memory and the second philosophy.
- Alexandre Dumas
The Count of Monte Cristo
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The only thing that makes life possible is permanent, intolerable uncertainty: not knowing what comes next.
- Ursula K. Le Guin
The Left Hand of Darkness
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It may be important to great thinkers to examine the world, to explain and despise it. But I think it is only important to love the world, not to despise it, not for us to hate each other, but to be able to regard the world and ourselves and all beings with love, admiration and respect.
- Hermann Hesse
Siddhartha
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I think it's much more interesting to live not knowing than to have answers which might be wrong. I have approximate answers and possible beliefs and different degrees of uncertainty about different things, but I am not absolutely sure of anything and there are many things I don't know anything about, such as whether it means anything to ask why we're here. I don't have to know an answer. I don't feel frightened not knowing things, by being lost in a mysterious universe without any purpose, which is the way it really is as far as I can tell.
- Richard P. Feynman
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Even the finest sword plunged into salt water will eventually rust.
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We are the hollow men
We are the stuffed men
Leaning together
Headpiece filled with straw. Alas!
Our dried voices, when
We whisper together
Are quiet and meaningless
As wind in dry grass
Or rats' feet over broken glass
In our dry cellar
Shape without form, shade without colour,
Paralysed force, gesture without motion;

- The Hollow Men
- T.S. Eliot
Poems: 1909-1925
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The moment we cry in a film is not when things are sad but when they turn out to be more beautiful than we expected them to be.
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Nature is pleased with simplicity. And nature is no dummy
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It is therefore senseless to think of complaining since nothing foreign has decided what we feel, what we live, or what we are.
- Jean-Paul Sartre
Being and Nothingness
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Who is John Galt?
- Ayn Rand
Atlas Shrugged
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Problems that remain persistently insoluble should always be suspected as questions asked in the wrong way.
- Alan Wilson Watts
The Book: On the Taboo Against Knowing Who You Are
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Fas est ab hoste doceri.
One should learn even from one's enemies.
- Ovid
Metamorphoses
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I am, therefore I'll think.
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Don't for heaven's sake, be afraid of talking nonsense! But you must pay attention to your nonsense.
- Ludwig Wittgenstein
Culture and Value
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Remember, it is not enough to be hit or insulted to be harmed, you must believe that you are being harmed. If someone succeeds in provoking you, realize that your mind is complicit in the provocation. Which is why it is essential that we not respond impulsively to impressions; take a moment before reacting, and you will find it easier to maintain control.
- Epictetus
The Art of Living: The Classical Manual on Virtue, Happiness and Effectiveness
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If there were no eternal consciousness in a man, if at the bottom of everything there were only a wild ferment, a power that twisting in dark passions produced everything great or inconsequential; if an unfathomable, insatiable emptiness lay hid beneath everything, what would life be but despair?
- Soren Kierkegaard
Fear and Trembling
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The meaning of earthly existence lies not, as we have grown used to thinking, in prospering but in the development of the soul.
- Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn
Cancer Ward
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No one should need to be big enough to destroy others and all of us must have to be powerful and resourceful enough to protect ourselves.
- Zaman Ali
ZAMANISM Wealth of the People
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Philosophy is really nostalgia, the desire to be at home.
- Novalis
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Plato was a bore.
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It is a self-deception of philosophers and moralists to imagine that they escape decadence by opposing it. That is beyond their will; and, however little they acknowledge it, one later discovers that they were among the most powerful promoters of decadence.
- Friedrich Nietzsche
The Will to Power
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Beyond the fiction of reality, there is the reality of the fiction.
- Slavoj Žižek
Less Than Nothing: Hegel and the Shadow of Dialectical Materialism
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Often father and daughter look down on mother (woman) together. They exchange meaningful glances when she misses a point. They agree that she is not bright as they are, cannot reason as they do. This collusion does not save the daughter from the mother’s fate.
- Bonnie Burstow
Radical Feminist Therapy: Working in the Context of Violence
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Doubt as sin. — Christianity has done its utmost to close the circle and declared even doubt to be sin. One is supposed to be cast into belief without reason, by a miracle, and from then on to swim in it as in the brightest and least ambiguous of elements: even a glance towards land, even the thought that one perhaps exists for something else as well as swimming, even the slightest impulse of our amphibious nature — is sin! And notice that all this means that the foundation of belief and all reflection on its origin is likewise excluded as sinful. What is wanted are blindness and intoxication and an eternal song over the waves in which reason has drowned.
- Friedrich Nietzsche
Daybreak: Thoughts on the Prejudices of Morality
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Learning does not make one learned: there are those who have knowledge and those who have understanding. The first requires memory and the second philosophy.
- Alexandre Dumas
The Count of Monte Cristo
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The only thing that makes life possible is permanent, intolerable uncertainty: not knowing what comes next.
- Ursula K. Le Guin
The Left Hand of Darkness
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It may be important to great thinkers to examine the world, to explain and despise it. But I think it is only important to love the world, not to despise it, not for us to hate each other, but to be able to regard the world and ourselves and all beings with love, admiration and respect.
- Hermann Hesse
Siddhartha
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I think it's much more interesting to live not knowing than to have answers which might be wrong. I have approximate answers and possible beliefs and different degrees of uncertainty about different things, but I am not absolutely sure of anything and there are many things I don't know anything about, such as whether it means anything to ask why we're here. I don't have to know an answer. I don't feel frightened not knowing things, by being lost in a mysterious universe without any purpose, which is the way it really is as far as I can tell.
- Richard P. Feynman
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Even the finest sword plunged into salt water will eventually rust.
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We are the hollow men
We are the stuffed men
Leaning together
Headpiece filled with straw. Alas!
Our dried voices, when
We whisper together
Are quiet and meaningless
As wind in dry grass
Or rats' feet over broken glass
In our dry cellar
Shape without form, shade without colour,
Paralysed force, gesture without motion;

- The Hollow Men
- T.S. Eliot
Poems: 1909-1925
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The moment we cry in a film is not when things are sad but when they turn out to be more beautiful than we expected them to be.
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Nature is pleased with simplicity. And nature is no dummy
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It is therefore senseless to think of complaining since nothing foreign has decided what we feel, what we live, or what we are.
- Jean-Paul Sartre
Being and Nothingness
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Who is John Galt?
- Ayn Rand
Atlas Shrugged
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Problems that remain persistently insoluble should always be suspected as questions asked in the wrong way.
- Alan Wilson Watts
The Book: On the Taboo Against Knowing Who You Are
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Fas est ab hoste doceri.
One should learn even from one's enemies.
- Ovid
Metamorphoses
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I am, therefore I'll think.
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Don't for heaven's sake, be afraid of talking nonsense! But you must pay attention to your nonsense.
- Ludwig Wittgenstein
Culture and Value
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Remember, it is not enough to be hit or insulted to be harmed, you must believe that you are being harmed. If someone succeeds in provoking you, realize that your mind is complicit in the provocation. Which is why it is essential that we not respond impulsively to impressions; take a moment before reacting, and you will find it easier to maintain control.
- Epictetus
The Art of Living: The Classical Manual on Virtue, Happiness and Effectiveness
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
If there were no eternal consciousness in a man, if at the bottom of everything there were only a wild ferment, a power that twisting in dark passions produced everything great or inconsequential; if an unfathomable, insatiable emptiness lay hid beneath everything, what would life be but despair?
- Soren Kierkegaard
Fear and Trembling
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The meaning of earthly existence lies not, as we have grown used to thinking, in prospering but in the development of the soul.
- Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn
Cancer Ward
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No one should need to be big enough to destroy others and all of us must have to be powerful and resourceful enough to protect ourselves.
- Zaman Ali
ZAMANISM Wealth of the People
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Philosophy is really nostalgia, the desire to be at home.
- Novalis
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Plato was a bore.
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It is a self-deception of philosophers and moralists to imagine that they escape decadence by opposing it. That is beyond their will; and, however little they acknowledge it, one later discovers that they were among the most powerful promoters of decadence.
- Friedrich Nietzsche
The Will to Power
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Beyond the fiction of reality, there is the reality of the fiction.
- Slavoj Žižek
Less Than Nothing: Hegel and the Shadow of Dialectical Materialism
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Often father and daughter look down on mother (woman) together. They exchange meaningful glances when she misses a point. They agree that she is not bright as they are, cannot reason as they do. This collusion does not save the daughter from the mother’s fate.
- Bonnie Burstow
Radical Feminist Therapy: Working in the Context of Violence
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Doubt as sin. — Christianity has done its utmost to close the circle and declared even doubt to be sin. One is supposed to be cast into belief without reason, by a miracle, and from then on to swim in it as in the brightest and least ambiguous of elements: even a glance towards land, even the thought that one perhaps exists for something else as well as swimming, even the slightest impulse of our amphibious nature — is sin! And notice that all this means that the foundation of belief and all reflection on its origin is likewise excluded as sinful. What is wanted are blindness and intoxication and an eternal song over the waves in which reason has drowned.
- Friedrich Nietzsche
Daybreak: Thoughts on the Prejudices of Morality
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Learning does not make one learned: there are those who have knowledge and those who have understanding. The first requires memory and the second philosophy.
- Alexandre Dumas
The Count of Monte Cristo
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
The only thing that makes life possible is permanent, intolerable uncertainty: not knowing what comes next.
- Ursula K. Le Guin
The Left Hand of Darkness
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
It may be important to great thinkers to examine the world, to explain and despise it. But I think it is only important to love the world, not to despise it, not for us to hate each other, but to be able to regard the world and ourselves and all beings with love, admiration and respect.
- Hermann Hesse
Siddhartha
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I think it's much more interesting to live not knowing than to have answers which might be wrong. I have approximate answers and possible beliefs and different degrees of uncertainty about different things, but I am not absolutely sure of anything and there are many things I don't know anything about, such as whether it means anything to ask why we're here. I don't have to know an answer. I don't feel frightened not knowing things, by being lost in a mysterious universe without any purpose, which is the way it really is as far as I can tell.
- Richard P. Feynman
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Even the finest sword plunged into salt water will eventually rust.
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
We are the hollow men
We are the stuffed men
Leaning together
Headpiece filled with straw. Alas!
Our dried voices, when
We whisper together
Are quiet and meaningless
As wind in dry grass
Or rats' feet over broken glass
In our dry cellar
Shape without form, shade without colour,
Paralysed force, gesture without motion;

- The Hollow Men
- T.S. Eliot
Poems: 1909-1925
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
The moment we cry in a film is not when things are sad but when they turn out to be more beautiful than we expected them to be.
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Nature is pleased with simplicity. And nature is no dummy
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
It is therefore senseless to think of complaining since nothing foreign has decided what we feel, what we live, or what we are.
- Jean-Paul Sartre
Being and Nothingness
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Who is John Galt?
- Ayn Rand
Atlas Shrugged
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Problems that remain persistently insoluble should always be suspected as questions asked in the wrong way.
- Alan Wilson Watts
The Book: On the Taboo Against Knowing Who You Are
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Fas est ab hoste doceri.
One should learn even from one's enemies.
- Ovid
Metamorphoses
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
I am, therefore I'll think.
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Don't for heaven's sake, be afraid of talking nonsense! But you must pay attention to your nonsense.
- Ludwig Wittgenstein
Culture and Value
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Remember, it is not enough to be hit or insulted to be harmed, you must believe that you are being harmed. If someone succeeds in provoking you, realize that your mind is complicit in the provocation. Which is why it is essential that we not respond impulsively to impressions; take a moment before reacting, and you will find it easier to maintain control.
- Epictetus
The Art of Living: The Classical Manual on Virtue, Happiness and Effectiveness
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
If there were no eternal consciousness in a man, if at the bottom of everything there were only a wild ferment, a power that twisting in dark passions produced everything great or inconsequential; if an unfathomable, insatiable emptiness lay hid beneath everything, what would life be but despair?
- Soren Kierkegaard
Fear and Trembling
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
The meaning of earthly existence lies not, as we have grown used to thinking, in prospering but in the development of the soul.
- Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn
Cancer Ward
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
No one should need to be big enough to destroy others and all of us must have to be powerful and resourceful enough to protect ourselves.
- Zaman Ali
ZAMANISM Wealth of the People
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Philosophy is really nostalgia, the desire to be at home.
- Novalis
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Plato was a bore.
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
It is a self-deception of philosophers and moralists to imagine that they escape decadence by opposing it. That is beyond their will; and, however little they acknowledge it, one later discovers that they were among the most powerful promoters of decadence.
- Friedrich Nietzsche
The Will to Power
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Beyond the fiction of reality, there is the reality of the fiction.
- Slavoj Žižek
Less Than Nothing: Hegel and the Shadow of Dialectical Materialism
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
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