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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 is the Modern Man. The man who seeks himself without ever seeking, because he does not want to find;
The man who does not hesitate to criticize the other, although he behaves in the same way;
- Cristiane Serruya
The Modern Man: A philosophical divagation about the evil banality of daily acts
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I want to paint the rest of my days with the best colors.
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Do not trouble about those who practice philosophy, whether they are good or bad; but examine the thing itself well and carefully. And if philosophy appears a bad thing to you, turn every man from it, not only your sons; but if it appears to you such as I think it to be, take courage, pursue it, and practice it, as the saying is, 'both you and your house.
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One can ask why the I has to appear in the cogito {Descartes’ argument “I think therefore I am.}, since the cogito, if used rightly, is the awareness of pure consciousness, not directed at any fact or action. In fact the I is not necessary here, since it is never united directly to consciousness. One can even imagine a pure and self-aware consciousness which thinks of itself as impersonal spontaneity.
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Be a surfer. Watch the ocean. Figure out where the big waves are breaking and adjust accordingly.
- 37Signals
Getting Real: The Smarter, Faster, Easier Way to Build a Web Application
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When the heart is dry the eye is dry.
- Victor Hugo
Les Misérables - anthology
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There's a huge swath of humanity that has developed verbal abilities to extract resources from guilt-ridden people.
They used to be priests, and now they're leftists.
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My life will have been a succession of lives, as if I have had several lives, a multiplicity of stories and roles. I have not ceased to have changes of life.
- Bernard Stiegler
Acting Out
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Upon this first, and in one sense this sole, rule of reason, that in order to learn you must desire to learn, and in so desiring not be satisfied with what you already incline to think, there follows one corollary which itself deserves to be inscribed upon every wall of the city of philosophy: Do not block the way of inquiry.
- Charles S. Peirce
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Why do we think love is a magician? Because the whole power of magic consists in love. The work of magic is the attraction of one thing by another because of a certain affinity of nature.
- Marsilio Ficino
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Cheapen words and they'll cheapen you
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So, when on one side you hoist in Locke's head, you go over that way; but now, on the other side, hoist in Kant's and you come back again; but in very poor plight. Thus, some minds for ever keep trimming boat. Oh, ye foolish! throw all these thunder-heads overboard, and then you will float light and right.
- Herman Melville
Moby-Dick or, The Whale
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All that exists is just and unjust and is equally justified in both respects.
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Sanity is not about confrontation. It's about filtering. Having a stable and happy life is about saying "no" to crazy people, not about inviting them in and then hoping that confrontations are going to make them sane.
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Sound unbound by nature becomes bounded by art.
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And if one loves me for my judgement, memory, he does not love me, for I can lose these qualities without losing myself. Where, then, is this Ego, if it be neither in the body nor in the soul? And how love the body or the soul, except for these qualities which do not constitute me, since they are perishable? For it is impossible and would be unjust to love the soul of a person in the abstract and whatever qualities might be therein. We never, then, love a person, but only qualities.
Let us, then, jeer no more at those who are honoured on account of rank and office; for we love a person only on account of borrowed qualities.
- Blaise Pascal
Pensées
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What does it matter where my body happens to be?' he said. 'My mind goes on working all the same.
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As a man, casting off worn out garments taketh new ones, so the dweller in the body, entereth into ones that are new.
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There is no need to fear or hope, but only to look for new weapons.
- Gilles Deleuze
Postscript on the Societies of Control
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With oppression, one group has the power to realize their choices and to name the world in order to change the world, while the other has these choices, these names, and this world imposed on them.
- Bonnie Burstow
Radical Feminist Therapy: Working in the Context of Violence
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you can measure the size of a person by what makes him or her angry
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The same word we love and hate, leaves in different directions, taking different paths.
- Dejan Stojanovic
The Sun Watches the Sun
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Society has arisen out of the works of peace; the essence of society is peacemaking. Peace and not war is the father of all things. Only economic action has created the wealth around us; labor, not the profession of arms, brings happiness. Peace builds, war destroys.
- Ludwig von Mises
Socialism: An Economic and Sociological Analysis
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If you go to Singapore or Amsterdam or Seoul or Buenos Aires or Islamabad or Johannesburg or Tampa or Istanbul or Kyoto, you'll find that the people differ wildly in the way they dress, in their marriage customs, in the holidays they observe, in their religious rituals, and so on, but they all expect the food to be under lock and key. It's all owned, and if you want some, you'll have to buy it.
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This is the Modern Man. The man who seeks himself without ever seeking, because he does not want to find;
The man who does not hesitate to criticize the other, although he behaves in the same way;
- Cristiane Serruya
The Modern Man: A philosophical divagation about the evil banality of daily acts
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
I want to paint the rest of my days with the best colors.
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Do not trouble about those who practice philosophy, whether they are good or bad; but examine the thing itself well and carefully. And if philosophy appears a bad thing to you, turn every man from it, not only your sons; but if it appears to you such as I think it to be, take courage, pursue it, and practice it, as the saying is, 'both you and your house.
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
One can ask why the I has to appear in the cogito {Descartes’ argument “I think therefore I am.}, since the cogito, if used rightly, is the awareness of pure consciousness, not directed at any fact or action. In fact the I is not necessary here, since it is never united directly to consciousness. One can even imagine a pure and self-aware consciousness which thinks of itself as impersonal spontaneity.
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Be a surfer. Watch the ocean. Figure out where the big waves are breaking and adjust accordingly.
- 37Signals
Getting Real: The Smarter, Faster, Easier Way to Build a Web Application
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When the heart is dry the eye is dry.
- Victor Hugo
Les Misérables - anthology
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There's a huge swath of humanity that has developed verbal abilities to extract resources from guilt-ridden people.
They used to be priests, and now they're leftists.
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My life will have been a succession of lives, as if I have had several lives, a multiplicity of stories and roles. I have not ceased to have changes of life.
- Bernard Stiegler
Acting Out
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Upon this first, and in one sense this sole, rule of reason, that in order to learn you must desire to learn, and in so desiring not be satisfied with what you already incline to think, there follows one corollary which itself deserves to be inscribed upon every wall of the city of philosophy: Do not block the way of inquiry.
- Charles S. Peirce
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Why do we think love is a magician? Because the whole power of magic consists in love. The work of magic is the attraction of one thing by another because of a certain affinity of nature.
- Marsilio Ficino
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Cheapen words and they'll cheapen you
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So, when on one side you hoist in Locke's head, you go over that way; but now, on the other side, hoist in Kant's and you come back again; but in very poor plight. Thus, some minds for ever keep trimming boat. Oh, ye foolish! throw all these thunder-heads overboard, and then you will float light and right.
- Herman Melville
Moby-Dick or, The Whale
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
All that exists is just and unjust and is equally justified in both respects.
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Sanity is not about confrontation. It's about filtering. Having a stable and happy life is about saying "no" to crazy people, not about inviting them in and then hoping that confrontations are going to make them sane.
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Sound unbound by nature becomes bounded by art.
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And if one loves me for my judgement, memory, he does not love me, for I can lose these qualities without losing myself. Where, then, is this Ego, if it be neither in the body nor in the soul? And how love the body or the soul, except for these qualities which do not constitute me, since they are perishable? For it is impossible and would be unjust to love the soul of a person in the abstract and whatever qualities might be therein. We never, then, love a person, but only qualities.
Let us, then, jeer no more at those who are honoured on account of rank and office; for we love a person only on account of borrowed qualities.
- Blaise Pascal
Pensées
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What does it matter where my body happens to be?' he said. 'My mind goes on working all the same.
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As a man, casting off worn out garments taketh new ones, so the dweller in the body, entereth into ones that are new.
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There is no need to fear or hope, but only to look for new weapons.
- Gilles Deleuze
Postscript on the Societies of Control
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With oppression, one group has the power to realize their choices and to name the world in order to change the world, while the other has these choices, these names, and this world imposed on them.
- Bonnie Burstow
Radical Feminist Therapy: Working in the Context of Violence
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you can measure the size of a person by what makes him or her angry
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The same word we love and hate, leaves in different directions, taking different paths.
- Dejan Stojanovic
The Sun Watches the Sun
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Society has arisen out of the works of peace; the essence of society is peacemaking. Peace and not war is the father of all things. Only economic action has created the wealth around us; labor, not the profession of arms, brings happiness. Peace builds, war destroys.
- Ludwig von Mises
Socialism: An Economic and Sociological Analysis
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If you go to Singapore or Amsterdam or Seoul or Buenos Aires or Islamabad or Johannesburg or Tampa or Istanbul or Kyoto, you'll find that the people differ wildly in the way they dress, in their marriage customs, in the holidays they observe, in their religious rituals, and so on, but they all expect the food to be under lock and key. It's all owned, and if you want some, you'll have to buy it.
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
This is the Modern Man. The man who seeks himself without ever seeking, because he does not want to find;
The man who does not hesitate to criticize the other, although he behaves in the same way;
- Cristiane Serruya
The Modern Man: A philosophical divagation about the evil banality of daily acts
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
I want to paint the rest of my days with the best colors.
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Do not trouble about those who practice philosophy, whether they are good or bad; but examine the thing itself well and carefully. And if philosophy appears a bad thing to you, turn every man from it, not only your sons; but if it appears to you such as I think it to be, take courage, pursue it, and practice it, as the saying is, 'both you and your house.
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
One can ask why the I has to appear in the cogito {Descartes’ argument “I think therefore I am.}, since the cogito, if used rightly, is the awareness of pure consciousness, not directed at any fact or action. In fact the I is not necessary here, since it is never united directly to consciousness. One can even imagine a pure and self-aware consciousness which thinks of itself as impersonal spontaneity.
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Be a surfer. Watch the ocean. Figure out where the big waves are breaking and adjust accordingly.
- 37Signals
Getting Real: The Smarter, Faster, Easier Way to Build a Web Application
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
When the heart is dry the eye is dry.
- Victor Hugo
Les Misérables - anthology
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
There's a huge swath of humanity that has developed verbal abilities to extract resources from guilt-ridden people.
They used to be priests, and now they're leftists.
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
My life will have been a succession of lives, as if I have had several lives, a multiplicity of stories and roles. I have not ceased to have changes of life.
- Bernard Stiegler
Acting Out
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Upon this first, and in one sense this sole, rule of reason, that in order to learn you must desire to learn, and in so desiring not be satisfied with what you already incline to think, there follows one corollary which itself deserves to be inscribed upon every wall of the city of philosophy: Do not block the way of inquiry.
- Charles S. Peirce
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Why do we think love is a magician? Because the whole power of magic consists in love. The work of magic is the attraction of one thing by another because of a certain affinity of nature.
- Marsilio Ficino
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Cheapen words and they'll cheapen you
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
So, when on one side you hoist in Locke's head, you go over that way; but now, on the other side, hoist in Kant's and you come back again; but in very poor plight. Thus, some minds for ever keep trimming boat. Oh, ye foolish! throw all these thunder-heads overboard, and then you will float light and right.
- Herman Melville
Moby-Dick or, The Whale
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
All that exists is just and unjust and is equally justified in both respects.
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Sanity is not about confrontation. It's about filtering. Having a stable and happy life is about saying "no" to crazy people, not about inviting them in and then hoping that confrontations are going to make them sane.
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Sound unbound by nature becomes bounded by art.
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
And if one loves me for my judgement, memory, he does not love me, for I can lose these qualities without losing myself. Where, then, is this Ego, if it be neither in the body nor in the soul? And how love the body or the soul, except for these qualities which do not constitute me, since they are perishable? For it is impossible and would be unjust to love the soul of a person in the abstract and whatever qualities might be therein. We never, then, love a person, but only qualities.
Let us, then, jeer no more at those who are honoured on account of rank and office; for we love a person only on account of borrowed qualities.
- Blaise Pascal
Pensées
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What does it matter where my body happens to be?' he said. 'My mind goes on working all the same.
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
As a man, casting off worn out garments taketh new ones, so the dweller in the body, entereth into ones that are new.
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
There is no need to fear or hope, but only to look for new weapons.
- Gilles Deleuze
Postscript on the Societies of Control
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
With oppression, one group has the power to realize their choices and to name the world in order to change the world, while the other has these choices, these names, and this world imposed on them.
- Bonnie Burstow
Radical Feminist Therapy: Working in the Context of Violence
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
you can measure the size of a person by what makes him or her angry
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
The same word we love and hate, leaves in different directions, taking different paths.
- Dejan Stojanovic
The Sun Watches the Sun
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Society has arisen out of the works of peace; the essence of society is peacemaking. Peace and not war is the father of all things. Only economic action has created the wealth around us; labor, not the profession of arms, brings happiness. Peace builds, war destroys.
- Ludwig von Mises
Socialism: An Economic and Sociological Analysis
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
If you go to Singapore or Amsterdam or Seoul or Buenos Aires or Islamabad or Johannesburg or Tampa or Istanbul or Kyoto, you'll find that the people differ wildly in the way they dress, in their marriage customs, in the holidays they observe, in their religious rituals, and so on, but they all expect the food to be under lock and key. It's all owned, and if you want some, you'll have to buy it.
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