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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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..."Nature" is not to be understood as that which is just present-at-hand, nor as the power of Nature. The wood is a forest of timber, the mountain a quarry of rock; the river is water-power, the wind is wind 'in the sails'. As the 'environment' is discovered, the 'Nature' thus discovered is encountered too. If its kind of Being as ready-to-hand is disregarded, this 'Nature' itself can be discovered and defined simply in its pure presence-at-hand. But when this happens, the Nature which 'stirs and strives', which assails us and enthralls us as landscape, remains hidden. The botanist's plants are not the flowers of the hedgerow; the 'source' which the geographer establishes for a river is not the 'springhead in the dale'.
- Martin Heidegger
Being and Time
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In any compromise between food and poison, it is only death that can win. In any compromise between good and evil, it is only evil that can profit.
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There have been two great narcotics in European civilisation: Christianity and alcohol.
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Unless we learn to know ourselves, we run the danger of destroying ourselves.
- Ja A. Jahannes
WordSong Poets
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You are not just for the right or left, but for what is right over the wrong.
- Suzy Kassem
Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem
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Sooner or later, you will have to decide. Whether you want to drift with the current or whether you want to lay down your own path. Trust me, nobody in this world really knows where he is headed. Yes, of course, you will find people who say that they know how to live their lives. But even they can’t answer where their lives would lead. So, decide! What is more important to you? How? Where? Or why?
- Abhaidev
The Influencer: Speed Must Have a Limit
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Every existing thing is born without reason, prolongs itself out of weakness, and dies by chance.
- Sartre J.-P.
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Fate isn’t one straight road…there are forks in it, many different routes to different ends. We have the free will to choose the path.
- Dean Koontz
Odd Thomas
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the body is wiser than its inhabitants. the body is the soul. the body is god’s messenger.
- Erica Jong
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What you don’t know won’t hurt you. A dubious maxim: sometimes what you don’t know can hurt you very much.
- Margaret Atwood
The Blind Assassin
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If tomorrow were never to come, it would not be worth living today.
- Albert Einstein
On Humanism
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Body is a home, a prison and a grave.
- James Runcie
The Colour of Heaven
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Each voice carries a portion of value, no matter how unpalatable or distasteful that voice may be: no one person, government, ideology, transnational, or religious institution can own and dominate the whole.
- B. W. Powe
Towards a Canada of Light
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When any person harms you, or speaks badly of you, remember that he acts or speaks from a supposition of its being his duty. Now, it is not possible that he should follow what appears right to you, but what appears so to himself. Therefore, if he judges from a wrong appearance, he is the person hurt, since he too is the person deceived. For if anyone should suppose a true proposition to be false, the proposition is not hurt, but he who is deceived about it. Setting out, then, from these principles, you will meekly bear a person who reviles you, for you will say upon every occasion, "It seemed so to him."
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If your life is Christ, then your death will be only more of Christ, forever. If your life is only Christlessness, then your death will be only more Christlessness, forever. That's not fundamentalism, that's the law of non-contradiction.
- Peter Kreeft
Jesus-Shock
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The ethos of redemption is realied in self-mastery, by means of temperance, that is, continence of desires.
- Pope John Paul II
Blessed Are the Pure of Heart
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Rebelling is just obeying in reverse.
- Shunya
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To know and have it all is about individuality because each one has the right not to live under the mercy of anyone with more power. So, for freedom and protection, one desires to know and have it all, but the questions remain.
- Zaman Ali
EVIDENCE To Know and Have It All?
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Possibility, infinity, beauty -- none of those words were right. [...] What he really wanted to say was: have you felt this? this phantom life streaking like a phosphorescent hound at the edges of your ruin?
- Haven Kimmel
The Solace of Leaving Early
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I didn't want to do it,' Kiala said. 'The universe just kind of conspired to force me to make a fool of myself. It does that quite a lot, actually.
- Graham Parke
Unspent Time
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A sign of a lover of wisdom is his delight in not running his mouth about things he doesn't know.
- Criss Jami
Diotima, Battery, Electric Personality
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Then the lover, who is true and no counterfeit, must of necessity be loved by his love.
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A writer is one who communicates ideas and emotions people want to communicate but aren't quite sure how, or even if, they should communicate them.
- Criss Jami
Killosophy
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Human beings disappear; their histories remain.
- Bernard Stiegler
Technics and Time, 3: Cinematic Time and the Question of Malaise
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..."Nature" is not to be understood as that which is just present-at-hand, nor as the power of Nature. The wood is a forest of timber, the mountain a quarry of rock; the river is water-power, the wind is wind 'in the sails'. As the 'environment' is discovered, the 'Nature' thus discovered is encountered too. If its kind of Being as ready-to-hand is disregarded, this 'Nature' itself can be discovered and defined simply in its pure presence-at-hand. But when this happens, the Nature which 'stirs and strives', which assails us and enthralls us as landscape, remains hidden. The botanist's plants are not the flowers of the hedgerow; the 'source' which the geographer establishes for a river is not the 'springhead in the dale'.
- Martin Heidegger
Being and Time
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In any compromise between food and poison, it is only death that can win. In any compromise between good and evil, it is only evil that can profit.
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There have been two great narcotics in European civilisation: Christianity and alcohol.
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Unless we learn to know ourselves, we run the danger of destroying ourselves.
- Ja A. Jahannes
WordSong Poets
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You are not just for the right or left, but for what is right over the wrong.
- Suzy Kassem
Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem
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Sooner or later, you will have to decide. Whether you want to drift with the current or whether you want to lay down your own path. Trust me, nobody in this world really knows where he is headed. Yes, of course, you will find people who say that they know how to live their lives. But even they can’t answer where their lives would lead. So, decide! What is more important to you? How? Where? Or why?
- Abhaidev
The Influencer: Speed Must Have a Limit
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Every existing thing is born without reason, prolongs itself out of weakness, and dies by chance.
- Sartre J.-P.
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Fate isn’t one straight road…there are forks in it, many different routes to different ends. We have the free will to choose the path.
- Dean Koontz
Odd Thomas
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the body is wiser than its inhabitants. the body is the soul. the body is god’s messenger.
- Erica Jong
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What you don’t know won’t hurt you. A dubious maxim: sometimes what you don’t know can hurt you very much.
- Margaret Atwood
The Blind Assassin
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If tomorrow were never to come, it would not be worth living today.
- Albert Einstein
On Humanism
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Body is a home, a prison and a grave.
- James Runcie
The Colour of Heaven
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Each voice carries a portion of value, no matter how unpalatable or distasteful that voice may be: no one person, government, ideology, transnational, or religious institution can own and dominate the whole.
- B. W. Powe
Towards a Canada of Light
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When any person harms you, or speaks badly of you, remember that he acts or speaks from a supposition of its being his duty. Now, it is not possible that he should follow what appears right to you, but what appears so to himself. Therefore, if he judges from a wrong appearance, he is the person hurt, since he too is the person deceived. For if anyone should suppose a true proposition to be false, the proposition is not hurt, but he who is deceived about it. Setting out, then, from these principles, you will meekly bear a person who reviles you, for you will say upon every occasion, "It seemed so to him."
....
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If your life is Christ, then your death will be only more of Christ, forever. If your life is only Christlessness, then your death will be only more Christlessness, forever. That's not fundamentalism, that's the law of non-contradiction.
- Peter Kreeft
Jesus-Shock
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The ethos of redemption is realied in self-mastery, by means of temperance, that is, continence of desires.
- Pope John Paul II
Blessed Are the Pure of Heart
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Rebelling is just obeying in reverse.
- Shunya
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To know and have it all is about individuality because each one has the right not to live under the mercy of anyone with more power. So, for freedom and protection, one desires to know and have it all, but the questions remain.
- Zaman Ali
EVIDENCE To Know and Have It All?
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Possibility, infinity, beauty -- none of those words were right. [...] What he really wanted to say was: have you felt this? this phantom life streaking like a phosphorescent hound at the edges of your ruin?
- Haven Kimmel
The Solace of Leaving Early
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I didn't want to do it,' Kiala said. 'The universe just kind of conspired to force me to make a fool of myself. It does that quite a lot, actually.
- Graham Parke
Unspent Time
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A sign of a lover of wisdom is his delight in not running his mouth about things he doesn't know.
- Criss Jami
Diotima, Battery, Electric Personality
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Then the lover, who is true and no counterfeit, must of necessity be loved by his love.
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
A writer is one who communicates ideas and emotions people want to communicate but aren't quite sure how, or even if, they should communicate them.
- Criss Jami
Killosophy
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Human beings disappear; their histories remain.
- Bernard Stiegler
Technics and Time, 3: Cinematic Time and the Question of Malaise
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
..."Nature" is not to be understood as that which is just present-at-hand, nor as the power of Nature. The wood is a forest of timber, the mountain a quarry of rock; the river is water-power, the wind is wind 'in the sails'. As the 'environment' is discovered, the 'Nature' thus discovered is encountered too. If its kind of Being as ready-to-hand is disregarded, this 'Nature' itself can be discovered and defined simply in its pure presence-at-hand. But when this happens, the Nature which 'stirs and strives', which assails us and enthralls us as landscape, remains hidden. The botanist's plants are not the flowers of the hedgerow; the 'source' which the geographer establishes for a river is not the 'springhead in the dale'.
- Martin Heidegger
Being and Time
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In any compromise between food and poison, it is only death that can win. In any compromise between good and evil, it is only evil that can profit.
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
There have been two great narcotics in European civilisation: Christianity and alcohol.
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Unless we learn to know ourselves, we run the danger of destroying ourselves.
- Ja A. Jahannes
WordSong Poets
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
You are not just for the right or left, but for what is right over the wrong.
- Suzy Kassem
Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Sooner or later, you will have to decide. Whether you want to drift with the current or whether you want to lay down your own path. Trust me, nobody in this world really knows where he is headed. Yes, of course, you will find people who say that they know how to live their lives. But even they can’t answer where their lives would lead. So, decide! What is more important to you? How? Where? Or why?
- Abhaidev
The Influencer: Speed Must Have a Limit
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Every existing thing is born without reason, prolongs itself out of weakness, and dies by chance.
- Sartre J.-P.
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Fate isn’t one straight road…there are forks in it, many different routes to different ends. We have the free will to choose the path.
- Dean Koontz
Odd Thomas
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
the body is wiser than its inhabitants. the body is the soul. the body is god’s messenger.
- Erica Jong
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
What you don’t know won’t hurt you. A dubious maxim: sometimes what you don’t know can hurt you very much.
- Margaret Atwood
The Blind Assassin
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
If tomorrow were never to come, it would not be worth living today.
- Albert Einstein
On Humanism
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Body is a home, a prison and a grave.
- James Runcie
The Colour of Heaven
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Each voice carries a portion of value, no matter how unpalatable or distasteful that voice may be: no one person, government, ideology, transnational, or religious institution can own and dominate the whole.
- B. W. Powe
Towards a Canada of Light
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
When any person harms you, or speaks badly of you, remember that he acts or speaks from a supposition of its being his duty. Now, it is not possible that he should follow what appears right to you, but what appears so to himself. Therefore, if he judges from a wrong appearance, he is the person hurt, since he too is the person deceived. For if anyone should suppose a true proposition to be false, the proposition is not hurt, but he who is deceived about it. Setting out, then, from these principles, you will meekly bear a person who reviles you, for you will say upon every occasion, "It seemed so to him."
....
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If your life is Christ, then your death will be only more of Christ, forever. If your life is only Christlessness, then your death will be only more Christlessness, forever. That's not fundamentalism, that's the law of non-contradiction.
- Peter Kreeft
Jesus-Shock
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
The ethos of redemption is realied in self-mastery, by means of temperance, that is, continence of desires.
- Pope John Paul II
Blessed Are the Pure of Heart
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Rebelling is just obeying in reverse.
- Shunya
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
To know and have it all is about individuality because each one has the right not to live under the mercy of anyone with more power. So, for freedom and protection, one desires to know and have it all, but the questions remain.
- Zaman Ali
EVIDENCE To Know and Have It All?
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Possibility, infinity, beauty -- none of those words were right. [...] What he really wanted to say was: have you felt this? this phantom life streaking like a phosphorescent hound at the edges of your ruin?
- Haven Kimmel
The Solace of Leaving Early
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
I didn't want to do it,' Kiala said. 'The universe just kind of conspired to force me to make a fool of myself. It does that quite a lot, actually.
- Graham Parke
Unspent Time
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
A sign of a lover of wisdom is his delight in not running his mouth about things he doesn't know.
- Criss Jami
Diotima, Battery, Electric Personality
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Then the lover, who is true and no counterfeit, must of necessity be loved by his love.
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
A writer is one who communicates ideas and emotions people want to communicate but aren't quite sure how, or even if, they should communicate them.
- Criss Jami
Killosophy
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Human beings disappear; their histories remain.
- Bernard Stiegler
Technics and Time, 3: Cinematic Time and the Question of Malaise
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
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