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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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This place has only three exits, sir: Madness, and Death.
- Rene Daumal
A Night of Serious Drinking
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What you think, you become.
What you feel, you attract.
What you imagine, you create.
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We are a society of notoriously unhappy people: lonely, anxious, depressed, destructive, dependent — people who are glad when we have killed the time we are trying so hard to save.
- Erich Fromm
To Have or to Be? The Nature of the Psyche
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A piece of art comes to life, when we can feel, it is breathing, when it talks to us and starts raising questions. It may dispel biased perceptions; make us recognize ignored fragments and remember forsaken episodes of our life story. Art may sometimes even be nasty and disturbing, if we don’t want to consent to its philosophy or concept, but it might, in the end, perhaps reconcile us with ourselves. ("When is Art?")
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I do feel that I’ve managed to make something I could maybe call my world…over time…little by little. And when I’m inside it, to some extent, I feel kind of relieved. But the very fact I felt I had to make such a world probably means that I’m a weak person, that I bruise easily, don’t you think? And in the eyes of society at large, that world of mine is a puny little thing. It’s like a cardboard house: a puff of wind might carry it off somewhere.
- Haruki Murakami
After Dark
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Any war that requires the suspension of reason as a necessity for support is a bad war.
- Norman Mailer
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Philosophers are people who know less and less about more and more, until they know nothing about everything. Scientists are people who know more and more about less and less, until they know everything about nothing.
- Konrad Lorenz
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Life... is a paradise to what we fear of death.
- William Shakespeare
Measure for Measure
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There is nothing deep down inside us except what we have put there ourselves.
- Richard Rorty
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Whenever I think of something but can't think of what it was I was thinking of, I can't stop thinking until I think I'm thinking of it again. I think I think too much.
- Criss Jami
Killosophy
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Later on in life, you expect a bit of rest, don't you? You think you deserve it. I did, anyway. But then you begin to understand that the reward of merit is not life's business.
- Julian Barnes
The Sense of an Ending
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Wisdom is the oneness of mind that guides and permeates all things.
- Heraclitus
Fragments
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I hope it is not necessary for me to stress the platonic nature of our relationship- not platonic in the purest sense, there was no philosophical discourse, but we certainly didn't fuck, which is usually what people mean by platonic; which I bet would really piss Plato off, that for all his thinking and chatting his name has become an adjective for describing sexless trysts.
- Russell Brand
My Booky Wook
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The wild worship of lawlessness and the materialist worship of law end in the same void. Nietzsche scales staggering mountains, but he turns up ultimately in Tibet. He sits down beside Tolstoy in the land of nothing and Nirvana. They are both helpless—one because he must not grasp anything, and the other because he must not let go of anything. The Tolstoyan’s will is frozen by a Buddhist instinct that all special actions are evil. But the Nietzscheite’s will is quite equally frozen by his view that all special actions are good; for if all special actions are good, none of them are special. They stand at the crossroads, and one hates all the roads and the other likes all the roads. The result is—well, some things are not hard to calculate. They stand at the cross-roads.
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We all have the beast in us Bill, and it is up to us to control it.
- Leslie W.P. Garland
The Little Dog
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In my opinion, our health care system has failed when a doctor fails to treat an illness that is treatable.
- Kevin Alan Lee
The Split Mind: Schizophrenia from an Insider's Point of View
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Saepe creat molles aspera spina rosas" - "Often the prickly thorn produces tender roses
- Ovid
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This heart within me I can feel, and I judge that it exists. This world I can touch, and I likewise judge that it exists. There ends all my knowledge, and the rest is construction. (...) Forever I shall be a stranger to myself.
- Albert Camus
The Myth of Sisyphus
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A picture held us captive. And we could not get outside it, for it lay in our language and language seemed to repeat it to us inexorably.
- Ludwig Wittgenstein
Philosophical Investigations
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Although you may not stumble across a Martian in the garden, you might stumble across yourself. The day that happens, you'll probably also scream a little. And that'll be perfectly all right, because it's not every day you realize you're a living planet dweller on a little island in the universe.
- Jostein Gaarder
The Solitaire Mystery
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If we wish to draw philosophical conclusions about our own existence, our significance, and the significance of the universe itself, our conclusions should be based on empirical knowledge. A truly open mind means forcing our imaginations to conform to the evidence of reality, and not vice versa, whether or not we like the implications.
- Lawrence M. Krauss
A Universe from Nothing: Why There Is Something Rather Than Nothing
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if you want it really, you get it !!!
- Ravinder Singh
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If you want to make progress, put up with being perceived as ignorant or naive in worldly matters, don't aspire to a reputation for sagacity. If you do impress others as somebody, don't altogether believe it. You have to realize, it isn't easy to keep your will in agreement with nature, as well as externals. Caring about the one inevitably means you are going to shortchange the other.
- Epictetus
The Art of Living: The Classical Manual on Virtue, Happiness and Effectiveness
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நீ வெற்றிகக்காக போராடும்போது வீண்முயற்ச்சி என்று சொல்லபவர்கள்,நீ வெற்றி பெற்றபின் விடாமுயற்சி என்பார்கள்
- Kannadasan
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This place has only three exits, sir: Madness, and Death.
- Rene Daumal
A Night of Serious Drinking
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What you think, you become.
What you feel, you attract.
What you imagine, you create.
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We are a society of notoriously unhappy people: lonely, anxious, depressed, destructive, dependent — people who are glad when we have killed the time we are trying so hard to save.
- Erich Fromm
To Have or to Be? The Nature of the Psyche
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A piece of art comes to life, when we can feel, it is breathing, when it talks to us and starts raising questions. It may dispel biased perceptions; make us recognize ignored fragments and remember forsaken episodes of our life story. Art may sometimes even be nasty and disturbing, if we don’t want to consent to its philosophy or concept, but it might, in the end, perhaps reconcile us with ourselves. ("When is Art?")
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I do feel that I’ve managed to make something I could maybe call my world…over time…little by little. And when I’m inside it, to some extent, I feel kind of relieved. But the very fact I felt I had to make such a world probably means that I’m a weak person, that I bruise easily, don’t you think? And in the eyes of society at large, that world of mine is a puny little thing. It’s like a cardboard house: a puff of wind might carry it off somewhere.
- Haruki Murakami
After Dark
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Any war that requires the suspension of reason as a necessity for support is a bad war.
- Norman Mailer
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Philosophers are people who know less and less about more and more, until they know nothing about everything. Scientists are people who know more and more about less and less, until they know everything about nothing.
- Konrad Lorenz
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Life... is a paradise to what we fear of death.
- William Shakespeare
Measure for Measure
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There is nothing deep down inside us except what we have put there ourselves.
- Richard Rorty
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Whenever I think of something but can't think of what it was I was thinking of, I can't stop thinking until I think I'm thinking of it again. I think I think too much.
- Criss Jami
Killosophy
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Later on in life, you expect a bit of rest, don't you? You think you deserve it. I did, anyway. But then you begin to understand that the reward of merit is not life's business.
- Julian Barnes
The Sense of an Ending
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Wisdom is the oneness of mind that guides and permeates all things.
- Heraclitus
Fragments
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I hope it is not necessary for me to stress the platonic nature of our relationship- not platonic in the purest sense, there was no philosophical discourse, but we certainly didn't fuck, which is usually what people mean by platonic; which I bet would really piss Plato off, that for all his thinking and chatting his name has become an adjective for describing sexless trysts.
- Russell Brand
My Booky Wook
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The wild worship of lawlessness and the materialist worship of law end in the same void. Nietzsche scales staggering mountains, but he turns up ultimately in Tibet. He sits down beside Tolstoy in the land of nothing and Nirvana. They are both helpless—one because he must not grasp anything, and the other because he must not let go of anything. The Tolstoyan’s will is frozen by a Buddhist instinct that all special actions are evil. But the Nietzscheite’s will is quite equally frozen by his view that all special actions are good; for if all special actions are good, none of them are special. They stand at the crossroads, and one hates all the roads and the other likes all the roads. The result is—well, some things are not hard to calculate. They stand at the cross-roads.
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We all have the beast in us Bill, and it is up to us to control it.
- Leslie W.P. Garland
The Little Dog
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In my opinion, our health care system has failed when a doctor fails to treat an illness that is treatable.
- Kevin Alan Lee
The Split Mind: Schizophrenia from an Insider's Point of View
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Saepe creat molles aspera spina rosas" - "Often the prickly thorn produces tender roses
- Ovid
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This heart within me I can feel, and I judge that it exists. This world I can touch, and I likewise judge that it exists. There ends all my knowledge, and the rest is construction. (...) Forever I shall be a stranger to myself.
- Albert Camus
The Myth of Sisyphus
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A picture held us captive. And we could not get outside it, for it lay in our language and language seemed to repeat it to us inexorably.
- Ludwig Wittgenstein
Philosophical Investigations
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Although you may not stumble across a Martian in the garden, you might stumble across yourself. The day that happens, you'll probably also scream a little. And that'll be perfectly all right, because it's not every day you realize you're a living planet dweller on a little island in the universe.
- Jostein Gaarder
The Solitaire Mystery
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If we wish to draw philosophical conclusions about our own existence, our significance, and the significance of the universe itself, our conclusions should be based on empirical knowledge. A truly open mind means forcing our imaginations to conform to the evidence of reality, and not vice versa, whether or not we like the implications.
- Lawrence M. Krauss
A Universe from Nothing: Why There Is Something Rather Than Nothing
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if you want it really, you get it !!!
- Ravinder Singh
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If you want to make progress, put up with being perceived as ignorant or naive in worldly matters, don't aspire to a reputation for sagacity. If you do impress others as somebody, don't altogether believe it. You have to realize, it isn't easy to keep your will in agreement with nature, as well as externals. Caring about the one inevitably means you are going to shortchange the other.
- Epictetus
The Art of Living: The Classical Manual on Virtue, Happiness and Effectiveness
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நீ வெற்றிகக்காக போராடும்போது வீண்முயற்ச்சி என்று சொல்லபவர்கள்,நீ வெற்றி பெற்றபின் விடாமுயற்சி என்பார்கள்
- Kannadasan
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This place has only three exits, sir: Madness, and Death.
- Rene Daumal
A Night of Serious Drinking
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What you think, you become.
What you feel, you attract.
What you imagine, you create.
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
We are a society of notoriously unhappy people: lonely, anxious, depressed, destructive, dependent — people who are glad when we have killed the time we are trying so hard to save.
- Erich Fromm
To Have or to Be? The Nature of the Psyche
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
A piece of art comes to life, when we can feel, it is breathing, when it talks to us and starts raising questions. It may dispel biased perceptions; make us recognize ignored fragments and remember forsaken episodes of our life story. Art may sometimes even be nasty and disturbing, if we don’t want to consent to its philosophy or concept, but it might, in the end, perhaps reconcile us with ourselves. ("When is Art?")
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
I do feel that I’ve managed to make something I could maybe call my world…over time…little by little. And when I’m inside it, to some extent, I feel kind of relieved. But the very fact I felt I had to make such a world probably means that I’m a weak person, that I bruise easily, don’t you think? And in the eyes of society at large, that world of mine is a puny little thing. It’s like a cardboard house: a puff of wind might carry it off somewhere.
- Haruki Murakami
After Dark
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Any war that requires the suspension of reason as a necessity for support is a bad war.
- Norman Mailer
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Philosophers are people who know less and less about more and more, until they know nothing about everything. Scientists are people who know more and more about less and less, until they know everything about nothing.
- Konrad Lorenz
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Life... is a paradise to what we fear of death.
- William Shakespeare
Measure for Measure
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There is nothing deep down inside us except what we have put there ourselves.
- Richard Rorty
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Whenever I think of something but can't think of what it was I was thinking of, I can't stop thinking until I think I'm thinking of it again. I think I think too much.
- Criss Jami
Killosophy
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Later on in life, you expect a bit of rest, don't you? You think you deserve it. I did, anyway. But then you begin to understand that the reward of merit is not life's business.
- Julian Barnes
The Sense of an Ending
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Wisdom is the oneness of mind that guides and permeates all things.
- Heraclitus
Fragments
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
I hope it is not necessary for me to stress the platonic nature of our relationship- not platonic in the purest sense, there was no philosophical discourse, but we certainly didn't fuck, which is usually what people mean by platonic; which I bet would really piss Plato off, that for all his thinking and chatting his name has become an adjective for describing sexless trysts.
- Russell Brand
My Booky Wook
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
The wild worship of lawlessness and the materialist worship of law end in the same void. Nietzsche scales staggering mountains, but he turns up ultimately in Tibet. He sits down beside Tolstoy in the land of nothing and Nirvana. They are both helpless—one because he must not grasp anything, and the other because he must not let go of anything. The Tolstoyan’s will is frozen by a Buddhist instinct that all special actions are evil. But the Nietzscheite’s will is quite equally frozen by his view that all special actions are good; for if all special actions are good, none of them are special. They stand at the crossroads, and one hates all the roads and the other likes all the roads. The result is—well, some things are not hard to calculate. They stand at the cross-roads.
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
We all have the beast in us Bill, and it is up to us to control it.
- Leslie W.P. Garland
The Little Dog
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
In my opinion, our health care system has failed when a doctor fails to treat an illness that is treatable.
- Kevin Alan Lee
The Split Mind: Schizophrenia from an Insider's Point of View
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Saepe creat molles aspera spina rosas" - "Often the prickly thorn produces tender roses
- Ovid
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
This heart within me I can feel, and I judge that it exists. This world I can touch, and I likewise judge that it exists. There ends all my knowledge, and the rest is construction. (...) Forever I shall be a stranger to myself.
- Albert Camus
The Myth of Sisyphus
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
A picture held us captive. And we could not get outside it, for it lay in our language and language seemed to repeat it to us inexorably.
- Ludwig Wittgenstein
Philosophical Investigations
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Although you may not stumble across a Martian in the garden, you might stumble across yourself. The day that happens, you'll probably also scream a little. And that'll be perfectly all right, because it's not every day you realize you're a living planet dweller on a little island in the universe.
- Jostein Gaarder
The Solitaire Mystery
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
If we wish to draw philosophical conclusions about our own existence, our significance, and the significance of the universe itself, our conclusions should be based on empirical knowledge. A truly open mind means forcing our imaginations to conform to the evidence of reality, and not vice versa, whether or not we like the implications.
- Lawrence M. Krauss
A Universe from Nothing: Why There Is Something Rather Than Nothing
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
if you want it really, you get it !!!
- Ravinder Singh
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
If you want to make progress, put up with being perceived as ignorant or naive in worldly matters, don't aspire to a reputation for sagacity. If you do impress others as somebody, don't altogether believe it. You have to realize, it isn't easy to keep your will in agreement with nature, as well as externals. Caring about the one inevitably means you are going to shortchange the other.
- Epictetus
The Art of Living: The Classical Manual on Virtue, Happiness and Effectiveness
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
நீ வெற்றிகக்காக போராடும்போது வீண்முயற்ச்சி என்று சொல்லபவர்கள்,நீ வெற்றி பெற்றபின் விடாமுயற்சி என்பார்கள்
- Kannadasan
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