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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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In good company one must never want to be entirely and solely right, which is what all pure logic wants [...].
- Friedrich Nietzsche
The Gay Science: With a Prelude in Rhymes and an Appendix of Songs
Topic: Philosophical
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Life exists so the Universe can experience itself.
Topic: Philosophical
And one thing we know is real: horror. It is so real, in fact, that we cannot be sure it could not exist without us. Yes, it needs our imaginations and our consciousness, but it does not ask or require our consent to use them. Indeed, horror operates with complete autonomy. Generating ontological havoc, it is mephitic foam upon which our lives merely float. And, all said, we must face up to it: horror is more real than we are.
- Thomas Ligotti
Songs of a Dead Dreamer
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Topic: Philosophical
Every new day is an opportunity to grow your love.
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Topic: Philosophical
The best knowledge is knowing yourself and your inner being.
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Topic: Philosophical
Life develops what it demands.
- Dan Millman
The Journeys of Socrates
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Topic: Philosophical
The smallest act of kindness makes you more beautiful than any expensive dress or make up.
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Topic: Philosophical
There isn't an end point to excellence where you have it and you can stop. Being your best self means keeping on trying.
- Jo Walton
The Just City
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Topic: Philosophical
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Everybody we know surrounds himself with a fine house, fine books, conservatory, gardens, equipage, and all manner of toys, as screens to interpose between himself and his guest. Does it not seem as if man was of a very sly, elusive nature, and dreaded nothing so much as a full rencontre front to front with his fellow?
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Essays on Manners, Self-Reliance, Compensation, Nature, Friendship
Topic: Philosophical
His conception of the universe is, however, instinctive, not intellectual; it can't be criticized as a concept, because there’s none there, and it can't be criticized as temperament, because temperament can't be criticized.
- Álvaro de Campos
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Topic: Philosophical
I don’t want to accidentally end up looking back on my life to find that I’m ashamed of myself, I want to live a life I can be proud of.
- Alice Bag
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Topic: Philosophical
Want less, live more
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Topic: Philosophical
Subjectivity is strange to Science, while Relativity is an objective part of it.
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Topic: Philosophical
It is curious that the human mind could blindly accept an infinite speed but had reservations to accept a finite one, simply because it was too large!
- Felix Alba-Juez
Galloping with Sound - The Grand Cosmic Conspiracy
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Topic: Philosophical
Once someone asked me, "What do you want to be your epitaph?" So I said, "Paulo Coelho died when he was alive.
- Paulo Coelho
The Alchemist
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Topic: Philosophical
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that you would not anticipate misery since the evils you dread as coming upon you may perhaps never reach you at least they are not yet come Thus some things torture us more than they ought, some before they ought and some which ought never to torture us at all. We heighten our pain either by presupposing a cause or anticipation
- Seneca
Letters from a Stoic
Topic: Philosophical
And still the text will remain, if it is really cryptic and parodying (and I tell you that it is so through and through. I might as well tell you since it won’t be of any help to you. Even my admission can very well be a lie because there is dissimulation only if one tells the truth, only if one tells that one is telling the truth), still the text will remain indefinitely open, cryptic and parodying.
- Jacques Derrida
Spurs: Nietzsche's Styles/Éperons: Les Styles de Nietzsche
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Topic: Philosophical
Love gives you eyes.
- Peter Kreeft
Jesus-Shock
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Topic: Philosophical
Socrates himself said, 'One thing only I know, and this is that I know nothing.'
Remember this statement, because it is an admission that is rare, even among philosophers. Moreover, it can be so dangerous to say in public that it can cost you your life. The most subversive people are those who ask questions. Giving answers is not nearly as threatening. Any one question can be more explosive than a thousand answers.
- Jostein Gaarder
Sophie’s World
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Topic: Philosophical
Giving importance to what we think because we thought it, taking our own selves not only (to quote the Greek philosopher) as the measure of all things but as their norm or standard, we create in ourselves, if not an interpretation, at least a criticism of the universe, which we don't even know and therefore cannot criticize. The giddiest, most weak-minded of us then promote that criticism to an interpretation that's superimposed, like a hallucination; induced rather than deduced. It's a hallucination in the strict sense, being an illusion based on something only dimly seen.
- Fernando Pessoa
The Education of the Stoic: The Only Manuscript of the Baron of Teive
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Topic: Philosophical
I believe in political solutions to political problems. But man's primary problems aren't political; they're philosophical. Until humans can solve their philosophical problems, they're condemned to solve their political problems over and over and over again. It's a cruel, repetitious bore.
- Tom Robbins
Even Cowgirls Get the Blues
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Topic: Philosophical
XXX
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Every philosophy is a foreground philosophy — that is a hermit's judgment: "There is something arbitrary in his stopping here to look back and look around, in his not digging deeper here but laying his spade aside; there is also something suspicious about it." Every philosophy also conceals a philosophy; every opinion is also a hideout, every word also a mask.
- Friedrich Nietzsche
Beyond Good and Evil
Topic: Philosophical
if being is many, it must be both like and unlike, and this is impossible, for neither can the like be unlike, nor the unlike like
- Zeno
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Philosophical
In mathematics or physics, infinity is greater than one or two or any number countable. In how many ways can the world be destroyed based on ordered knowledge? You may be able to count this. But the truth is, you “really” don’t know. These possibilities in your mind hold a set of unpredictable orders. One effect may be causative of another of another. It could be a culmination of effects you know as events where events are sets and subsets of potential possibilities.
In how many ways can the world be destroyed based on unordered possibilities?
- Dew Platt
The Rudeness of Soul
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Topic: Philosophical
XXX
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In good company one must never want to be entirely and solely right, which is what all pure logic wants [...].
- Friedrich Nietzsche
The Gay Science: With a Prelude in Rhymes and an Appendix of Songs
Topic: Philosophical
XXX
NOT YET RATING ▼
Life exists so the Universe can experience itself.
Topic: Philosophical
And one thing we know is real: horror. It is so real, in fact, that we cannot be sure it could not exist without us. Yes, it needs our imaginations and our consciousness, but it does not ask or require our consent to use them. Indeed, horror operates with complete autonomy. Generating ontological havoc, it is mephitic foam upon which our lives merely float. And, all said, we must face up to it: horror is more real than we are.
- Thomas Ligotti
Songs of a Dead Dreamer
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Philosophical
Every new day is an opportunity to grow your love.
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Philosophical
The best knowledge is knowing yourself and your inner being.
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Philosophical
Life develops what it demands.
- Dan Millman
The Journeys of Socrates
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Philosophical
The smallest act of kindness makes you more beautiful than any expensive dress or make up.
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Philosophical
There isn't an end point to excellence where you have it and you can stop. Being your best self means keeping on trying.
- Jo Walton
The Just City
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Philosophical
XXX
NOT YET RATING ▼
Everybody we know surrounds himself with a fine house, fine books, conservatory, gardens, equipage, and all manner of toys, as screens to interpose between himself and his guest. Does it not seem as if man was of a very sly, elusive nature, and dreaded nothing so much as a full rencontre front to front with his fellow?
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Essays on Manners, Self-Reliance, Compensation, Nature, Friendship
Topic: Philosophical
His conception of the universe is, however, instinctive, not intellectual; it can't be criticized as a concept, because there’s none there, and it can't be criticized as temperament, because temperament can't be criticized.
- Álvaro de Campos
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Philosophical
I don’t want to accidentally end up looking back on my life to find that I’m ashamed of myself, I want to live a life I can be proud of.
- Alice Bag
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Philosophical
Want less, live more
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Philosophical
Subjectivity is strange to Science, while Relativity is an objective part of it.
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Philosophical
It is curious that the human mind could blindly accept an infinite speed but had reservations to accept a finite one, simply because it was too large!
- Felix Alba-Juez
Galloping with Sound - The Grand Cosmic Conspiracy
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Philosophical
Once someone asked me, "What do you want to be your epitaph?" So I said, "Paulo Coelho died when he was alive.
- Paulo Coelho
The Alchemist
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Philosophical
XXX
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that you would not anticipate misery since the evils you dread as coming upon you may perhaps never reach you at least they are not yet come Thus some things torture us more than they ought, some before they ought and some which ought never to torture us at all. We heighten our pain either by presupposing a cause or anticipation
- Seneca
Letters from a Stoic
Topic: Philosophical
And still the text will remain, if it is really cryptic and parodying (and I tell you that it is so through and through. I might as well tell you since it won’t be of any help to you. Even my admission can very well be a lie because there is dissimulation only if one tells the truth, only if one tells that one is telling the truth), still the text will remain indefinitely open, cryptic and parodying.
- Jacques Derrida
Spurs: Nietzsche's Styles/Éperons: Les Styles de Nietzsche
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Philosophical
Love gives you eyes.
- Peter Kreeft
Jesus-Shock
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Philosophical
Socrates himself said, 'One thing only I know, and this is that I know nothing.'
Remember this statement, because it is an admission that is rare, even among philosophers. Moreover, it can be so dangerous to say in public that it can cost you your life. The most subversive people are those who ask questions. Giving answers is not nearly as threatening. Any one question can be more explosive than a thousand answers.
- Jostein Gaarder
Sophie’s World
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Philosophical
Giving importance to what we think because we thought it, taking our own selves not only (to quote the Greek philosopher) as the measure of all things but as their norm or standard, we create in ourselves, if not an interpretation, at least a criticism of the universe, which we don't even know and therefore cannot criticize. The giddiest, most weak-minded of us then promote that criticism to an interpretation that's superimposed, like a hallucination; induced rather than deduced. It's a hallucination in the strict sense, being an illusion based on something only dimly seen.
- Fernando Pessoa
The Education of the Stoic: The Only Manuscript of the Baron of Teive
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Philosophical
I believe in political solutions to political problems. But man's primary problems aren't political; they're philosophical. Until humans can solve their philosophical problems, they're condemned to solve their political problems over and over and over again. It's a cruel, repetitious bore.
- Tom Robbins
Even Cowgirls Get the Blues
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Philosophical
XXX
NOT YET RATING ▼
Every philosophy is a foreground philosophy — that is a hermit's judgment: "There is something arbitrary in his stopping here to look back and look around, in his not digging deeper here but laying his spade aside; there is also something suspicious about it." Every philosophy also conceals a philosophy; every opinion is also a hideout, every word also a mask.
- Friedrich Nietzsche
Beyond Good and Evil
Topic: Philosophical
if being is many, it must be both like and unlike, and this is impossible, for neither can the like be unlike, nor the unlike like
- Zeno
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Philosophical
In mathematics or physics, infinity is greater than one or two or any number countable. In how many ways can the world be destroyed based on ordered knowledge? You may be able to count this. But the truth is, you “really” don’t know. These possibilities in your mind hold a set of unpredictable orders. One effect may be causative of another of another. It could be a culmination of effects you know as events where events are sets and subsets of potential possibilities.
In how many ways can the world be destroyed based on unordered possibilities?
- Dew Platt
The Rudeness of Soul
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Philosophical
XXX
NOT YET RATING ▼
In good company one must never want to be entirely and solely right, which is what all pure logic wants [...].
- Friedrich Nietzsche
The Gay Science: With a Prelude in Rhymes and an Appendix of Songs
Topic: Philosophical
XXX
NOT YET RATING ▼
Life exists so the Universe can experience itself.
Topic: Philosophical
And one thing we know is real: horror. It is so real, in fact, that we cannot be sure it could not exist without us. Yes, it needs our imaginations and our consciousness, but it does not ask or require our consent to use them. Indeed, horror operates with complete autonomy. Generating ontological havoc, it is mephitic foam upon which our lives merely float. And, all said, we must face up to it: horror is more real than we are.
- Thomas Ligotti
Songs of a Dead Dreamer
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Philosophical
Every new day is an opportunity to grow your love.
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Philosophical
The best knowledge is knowing yourself and your inner being.
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Philosophical
Life develops what it demands.
- Dan Millman
The Journeys of Socrates
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Philosophical
The smallest act of kindness makes you more beautiful than any expensive dress or make up.
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Philosophical
There isn't an end point to excellence where you have it and you can stop. Being your best self means keeping on trying.
- Jo Walton
The Just City
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Philosophical
XXX
NOT YET RATING ▼
Everybody we know surrounds himself with a fine house, fine books, conservatory, gardens, equipage, and all manner of toys, as screens to interpose between himself and his guest. Does it not seem as if man was of a very sly, elusive nature, and dreaded nothing so much as a full rencontre front to front with his fellow?
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Essays on Manners, Self-Reliance, Compensation, Nature, Friendship
Topic: Philosophical
His conception of the universe is, however, instinctive, not intellectual; it can't be criticized as a concept, because there’s none there, and it can't be criticized as temperament, because temperament can't be criticized.
- Álvaro de Campos
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Philosophical
I don’t want to accidentally end up looking back on my life to find that I’m ashamed of myself, I want to live a life I can be proud of.
- Alice Bag
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Philosophical
Want less, live more
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Philosophical
Subjectivity is strange to Science, while Relativity is an objective part of it.
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Philosophical
It is curious that the human mind could blindly accept an infinite speed but had reservations to accept a finite one, simply because it was too large!
- Felix Alba-Juez
Galloping with Sound - The Grand Cosmic Conspiracy
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Philosophical
Once someone asked me, "What do you want to be your epitaph?" So I said, "Paulo Coelho died when he was alive.
- Paulo Coelho
The Alchemist
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Philosophical
XXX
NOT YET RATING ▼
that you would not anticipate misery since the evils you dread as coming upon you may perhaps never reach you at least they are not yet come Thus some things torture us more than they ought, some before they ought and some which ought never to torture us at all. We heighten our pain either by presupposing a cause or anticipation
- Seneca
Letters from a Stoic
Topic: Philosophical
And still the text will remain, if it is really cryptic and parodying (and I tell you that it is so through and through. I might as well tell you since it won’t be of any help to you. Even my admission can very well be a lie because there is dissimulation only if one tells the truth, only if one tells that one is telling the truth), still the text will remain indefinitely open, cryptic and parodying.
- Jacques Derrida
Spurs: Nietzsche's Styles/Éperons: Les Styles de Nietzsche
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Philosophical
Love gives you eyes.
- Peter Kreeft
Jesus-Shock
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Philosophical
Socrates himself said, 'One thing only I know, and this is that I know nothing.'
Remember this statement, because it is an admission that is rare, even among philosophers. Moreover, it can be so dangerous to say in public that it can cost you your life. The most subversive people are those who ask questions. Giving answers is not nearly as threatening. Any one question can be more explosive than a thousand answers.
- Jostein Gaarder
Sophie’s World
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Philosophical
Giving importance to what we think because we thought it, taking our own selves not only (to quote the Greek philosopher) as the measure of all things but as their norm or standard, we create in ourselves, if not an interpretation, at least a criticism of the universe, which we don't even know and therefore cannot criticize. The giddiest, most weak-minded of us then promote that criticism to an interpretation that's superimposed, like a hallucination; induced rather than deduced. It's a hallucination in the strict sense, being an illusion based on something only dimly seen.
- Fernando Pessoa
The Education of the Stoic: The Only Manuscript of the Baron of Teive
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Philosophical
I believe in political solutions to political problems. But man's primary problems aren't political; they're philosophical. Until humans can solve their philosophical problems, they're condemned to solve their political problems over and over and over again. It's a cruel, repetitious bore.
- Tom Robbins
Even Cowgirls Get the Blues
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Philosophical
XXX
NOT YET RATING ▼
Every philosophy is a foreground philosophy — that is a hermit's judgment: "There is something arbitrary in his stopping here to look back and look around, in his not digging deeper here but laying his spade aside; there is also something suspicious about it." Every philosophy also conceals a philosophy; every opinion is also a hideout, every word also a mask.
- Friedrich Nietzsche
Beyond Good and Evil
Topic: Philosophical
if being is many, it must be both like and unlike, and this is impossible, for neither can the like be unlike, nor the unlike like
- Zeno
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Philosophical
In mathematics or physics, infinity is greater than one or two or any number countable. In how many ways can the world be destroyed based on ordered knowledge? You may be able to count this. But the truth is, you “really” don’t know. These possibilities in your mind hold a set of unpredictable orders. One effect may be causative of another of another. It could be a culmination of effects you know as events where events are sets and subsets of potential possibilities.
In how many ways can the world be destroyed based on unordered possibilities?
- Dew Platt
The Rudeness of Soul
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Philosophical
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