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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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The most important thing I gained from my travels was the knowledge that one could achieve anything with determination and an ounce of luck.
- Stefan Waydenfeld
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If we try to measure Now, we find it's always gone, has become part of the past.
- Aidan Chambers
The Toll Bridge
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Pay attention to me.
- Sally Quinn
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After a dream like that, you're grateful that it was just a dream, that no matter how bad your actual life, it couldn't be worse than your dream life.
- Brock Clarke
An Arsonist's Guide to Writers' Homes in New England
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The art of leaving things alone. Especially when the seas of public or personal life are stormiest. There are whirlwinds in the affairs of men, tempests of the will, and it makes good sense to retire and wait things out in a safe harbour... Let nature or morality take its course.
- Baltasar Gracián
How to Use Your Enemies
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On the Samael Qlipha, the magician makes a pact with the dark forces and realizes the invitation of Friedrich Neitzsche to re-evaluate old values. Insanity becomes wisdom; death becomes life. Samael is the 'Poison of God.' Here is where illusions are poisoned, and all categories and conceptions are deconstructed until nothing is left. The dark side of the astral plane could be compared to a chalice filled with poison or an intoxicating fluid. While Gamaliel is the chalice, Samael is the elixir and the following lower Qlipha, A'arab Zaraq, is where the magician experiences the effect.
- Thomas Karlsson
Qabalah, Qliphoth and Goetic Magic
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I have gradually come to understand what every great philosophy until now has been: the confession of its author and a kind of involuntarily unconscious memoir.
- Friedrich Nietzsche
Beyond Good and Evil
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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
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Life exists so the Universe can experience itself.
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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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For in this Case, we are not to give Credit to the Many, who say, that none ought to be educated but the Free; but rather to the Philosophers, who say, that the Well-educated alone are free.
- Epictetus
All the Works of Epictetus
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Every new day is an opportunity to grow your love.
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The best knowledge is knowing yourself and your inner being.
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Life develops what it demands.
- Dan Millman
The Journeys of Socrates
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The smallest act of kindness makes you more beautiful than any expensive dress or make up.
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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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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
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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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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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Want less, live more
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Subjectivity is strange to Science, while Relativity is an objective part of it.
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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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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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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
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The most important thing I gained from my travels was the knowledge that one could achieve anything with determination and an ounce of luck.
- Stefan Waydenfeld
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If we try to measure Now, we find it's always gone, has become part of the past.
- Aidan Chambers
The Toll Bridge
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Pay attention to me.
- Sally Quinn
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After a dream like that, you're grateful that it was just a dream, that no matter how bad your actual life, it couldn't be worse than your dream life.
- Brock Clarke
An Arsonist's Guide to Writers' Homes in New England
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The art of leaving things alone. Especially when the seas of public or personal life are stormiest. There are whirlwinds in the affairs of men, tempests of the will, and it makes good sense to retire and wait things out in a safe harbour... Let nature or morality take its course.
- Baltasar Gracián
How to Use Your Enemies
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On the Samael Qlipha, the magician makes a pact with the dark forces and realizes the invitation of Friedrich Neitzsche to re-evaluate old values. Insanity becomes wisdom; death becomes life. Samael is the 'Poison of God.' Here is where illusions are poisoned, and all categories and conceptions are deconstructed until nothing is left. The dark side of the astral plane could be compared to a chalice filled with poison or an intoxicating fluid. While Gamaliel is the chalice, Samael is the elixir and the following lower Qlipha, A'arab Zaraq, is where the magician experiences the effect.
- Thomas Karlsson
Qabalah, Qliphoth and Goetic Magic
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I have gradually come to understand what every great philosophy until now has been: the confession of its author and a kind of involuntarily unconscious memoir.
- Friedrich Nietzsche
Beyond Good and Evil
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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
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Life exists so the Universe can experience itself.
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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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For in this Case, we are not to give Credit to the Many, who say, that none ought to be educated but the Free; but rather to the Philosophers, who say, that the Well-educated alone are free.
- Epictetus
All the Works of Epictetus
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Every new day is an opportunity to grow your love.
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The best knowledge is knowing yourself and your inner being.
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Life develops what it demands.
- Dan Millman
The Journeys of Socrates
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The smallest act of kindness makes you more beautiful than any expensive dress or make up.
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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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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
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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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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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Want less, live more
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Subjectivity is strange to Science, while Relativity is an objective part of it.
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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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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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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
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The most important thing I gained from my travels was the knowledge that one could achieve anything with determination and an ounce of luck.
- Stefan Waydenfeld
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
If we try to measure Now, we find it's always gone, has become part of the past.
- Aidan Chambers
The Toll Bridge
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Pay attention to me.
- Sally Quinn
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After a dream like that, you're grateful that it was just a dream, that no matter how bad your actual life, it couldn't be worse than your dream life.
- Brock Clarke
An Arsonist's Guide to Writers' Homes in New England
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The art of leaving things alone. Especially when the seas of public or personal life are stormiest. There are whirlwinds in the affairs of men, tempests of the will, and it makes good sense to retire and wait things out in a safe harbour... Let nature or morality take its course.
- Baltasar Gracián
How to Use Your Enemies
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
On the Samael Qlipha, the magician makes a pact with the dark forces and realizes the invitation of Friedrich Neitzsche to re-evaluate old values. Insanity becomes wisdom; death becomes life. Samael is the 'Poison of God.' Here is where illusions are poisoned, and all categories and conceptions are deconstructed until nothing is left. The dark side of the astral plane could be compared to a chalice filled with poison or an intoxicating fluid. While Gamaliel is the chalice, Samael is the elixir and the following lower Qlipha, A'arab Zaraq, is where the magician experiences the effect.
- Thomas Karlsson
Qabalah, Qliphoth and Goetic Magic
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
I have gradually come to understand what every great philosophy until now has been: the confession of its author and a kind of involuntarily unconscious memoir.
- Friedrich Nietzsche
Beyond Good and Evil
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
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
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Life exists so the Universe can experience itself.
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
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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For in this Case, we are not to give Credit to the Many, who say, that none ought to be educated but the Free; but rather to the Philosophers, who say, that the Well-educated alone are free.
- Epictetus
All the Works of Epictetus
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Every new day is an opportunity to grow your love.
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
The best knowledge is knowing yourself and your inner being.
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Life develops what it demands.
- Dan Millman
The Journeys of Socrates
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The smallest act of kindness makes you more beautiful than any expensive dress or make up.
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
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
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
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
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
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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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
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Want less, live more
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Subjectivity is strange to Science, while Relativity is an objective part of it.
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
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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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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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
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