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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 business of philosophy is to teach man to live in uncertainty... not to reassure him, but to upset him.
- Lev Shestov
All Things are Possible
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It's impossible to walk through solid rock... You have to walk between the molecules that make up the rock.
- J.M. Dattilo
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By that which you kill are you bound.
- O.R. Melling
The Summer King
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Do you mean that you think you can find out the answer to it?" said the March Hare.
"Exactly so," said Alice.
"Then you should say what you mean," the March Hare went on.
"I do," Alice hastily replied; "at least--at least I mean what I say--that's the same thing, you know."
"You might just as well say," added the Dormouse, which seemed to be talking in its sleep, "that 'I breathe
when I sleep' is the same thing as 'I sleep when I breathe!
- lewis carrol
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Christianity, like genius, is one of the hardest concepts to forgive. We hear what we want to hear and accept what we want to accept, for the most part, simply because there is nothing more offensive than feeling like you have to re-evaluate your own train of thought and purpose in life. You have to die to an extent in your hunger for faith, for wisdom, and quite frankly, most people aren't ready to die.
- Criss Jami
Killosophy
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Every moment of life wants to tell us something, but we do not want to hear what it has to say: when we are alone and quiet we are afraid that something will be whispered into our ear and hence we despise quiet and drug ourselves with sociability.
- Friedrich Nietzsche
Unpublished Writings from the Period of Unfashionable Observations
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From the philosopher Catulus, never to be dismissive of a friend's accusation, even if it seems unreasonable, but to make every effort to restore the relationship to its normal condition.
- Marcus Aurelius
Meditations
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The spectacle is at the same time the mirage of self in the mirror of things.
- Paul Ricoeur
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And now I see the face of god, and I raise this god over the earth, this god whom men have sought since men came into being, this god who will grant them joy and peace and pride. This god, this one word: 'I.
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The perfect is the enemy of the good.
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Language disguises thought.
- Ludwig Wittgenstein
Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus
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A poet or philosopher should have no fault to find with his age if it only permits him to do his work undisturbed in his own corner; nor with his fate if the corner granted him allows of his following his vocation without having to think about other people.
- Arthur Schopenhauer
The Art of Literature
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Life: It is better not to wrap philosophy around such an inconceivable evolving beautiful mystery. If based on perception, alone; whatever the conclusion - it is still guessing.
- T.F. Hodge
From Within I Rise: Spiritual Triumph over Death and Conscious Encounters With the Divine Presence
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All modern philosophizing is political, policed by governments, churches, academics, custom, fashion, and human cowardice, all of which limit it to a fake learnedness.
- Friedrich Nietzsche
Philosophy in the Tragic Age of the Greeks
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It is related that Sakyamuni [the historical Buddha] once dismissed as of small consequence a feat of levitation on the part of a disciple, and cried out in pity for a yogin by the river who had spent twenty years of his human existence learning to walk on water, when the ferryman might have taken him across for a small coin.
- Peter Matthiessen
The Snow Leopard
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Think of me as an impetuous Hegel, drunk with power, and also, regular drunk.
- Eugene Mirman
The Will to Whatevs: A Guide to Modern Life – The Ultimate Satirical Field Manual for Becoming an Artist or Disappointing Your Parents
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The more thoroughly a person understands life, the less he will mock, though in the end he might still mock the "thoroughness of his understanding.
- Friedrich Nietzsche
Human, All Too Human: A Book for Free Spirits
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They say beauty is in the eye of the beholder. I think the same could be said for time.
- Jake Vander Ark
The Day I Wore Purple
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A stone is heavy and the sand is weighty; but a fool's wrath is heavier than them both.
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Despite its successes, in the end, philosophical thinking always falls short of its real goal. It involves both the wonder of aspiring toward the Truth and the distress of falling short of that Truth. In this way, philosophy can be characterized as wondrous distress.
- John Marmysz
The Path of Philosophy: Truth, Wonder, and Distress
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Self-discipline is a form of freedom. Freedom from laziness and lethargy, freedom from expectations and demands of others, freedom from weakness and fear -- and doubt.
- H. A. Dorfman
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There is no future without a past, because what is to be cannot be imagined except as a form of repetition.
- Siri Hustvedt
The Summer Without Men
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Poetry and art nourish the soul of the world with the flavor-filled substances of beauty, wisdom and truth.
- Aberjhani
Journey through the Power of the Rainbow: Quotations from a Life Made Out of Poetry
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There are no free lunches in philosophy any more than in real life.
- Jaegwon Kim
Mind in a Physical World: An Essay on the Mind-Body Problem and Mental Causation
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The business of philosophy is to teach man to live in uncertainty... not to reassure him, but to upset him.
- Lev Shestov
All Things are Possible
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It's impossible to walk through solid rock... You have to walk between the molecules that make up the rock.
- J.M. Dattilo
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By that which you kill are you bound.
- O.R. Melling
The Summer King
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Do you mean that you think you can find out the answer to it?" said the March Hare.
"Exactly so," said Alice.
"Then you should say what you mean," the March Hare went on.
"I do," Alice hastily replied; "at least--at least I mean what I say--that's the same thing, you know."
"You might just as well say," added the Dormouse, which seemed to be talking in its sleep, "that 'I breathe
when I sleep' is the same thing as 'I sleep when I breathe!
- lewis carrol
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Christianity, like genius, is one of the hardest concepts to forgive. We hear what we want to hear and accept what we want to accept, for the most part, simply because there is nothing more offensive than feeling like you have to re-evaluate your own train of thought and purpose in life. You have to die to an extent in your hunger for faith, for wisdom, and quite frankly, most people aren't ready to die.
- Criss Jami
Killosophy
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Every moment of life wants to tell us something, but we do not want to hear what it has to say: when we are alone and quiet we are afraid that something will be whispered into our ear and hence we despise quiet and drug ourselves with sociability.
- Friedrich Nietzsche
Unpublished Writings from the Period of Unfashionable Observations
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From the philosopher Catulus, never to be dismissive of a friend's accusation, even if it seems unreasonable, but to make every effort to restore the relationship to its normal condition.
- Marcus Aurelius
Meditations
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The spectacle is at the same time the mirage of self in the mirror of things.
- Paul Ricoeur
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And now I see the face of god, and I raise this god over the earth, this god whom men have sought since men came into being, this god who will grant them joy and peace and pride. This god, this one word: 'I.
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
The perfect is the enemy of the good.
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Language disguises thought.
- Ludwig Wittgenstein
Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus
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A poet or philosopher should have no fault to find with his age if it only permits him to do his work undisturbed in his own corner; nor with his fate if the corner granted him allows of his following his vocation without having to think about other people.
- Arthur Schopenhauer
The Art of Literature
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Life: It is better not to wrap philosophy around such an inconceivable evolving beautiful mystery. If based on perception, alone; whatever the conclusion - it is still guessing.
- T.F. Hodge
From Within I Rise: Spiritual Triumph over Death and Conscious Encounters With the Divine Presence
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
All modern philosophizing is political, policed by governments, churches, academics, custom, fashion, and human cowardice, all of which limit it to a fake learnedness.
- Friedrich Nietzsche
Philosophy in the Tragic Age of the Greeks
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It is related that Sakyamuni [the historical Buddha] once dismissed as of small consequence a feat of levitation on the part of a disciple, and cried out in pity for a yogin by the river who had spent twenty years of his human existence learning to walk on water, when the ferryman might have taken him across for a small coin.
- Peter Matthiessen
The Snow Leopard
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Think of me as an impetuous Hegel, drunk with power, and also, regular drunk.
- Eugene Mirman
The Will to Whatevs: A Guide to Modern Life – The Ultimate Satirical Field Manual for Becoming an Artist or Disappointing Your Parents
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
The more thoroughly a person understands life, the less he will mock, though in the end he might still mock the "thoroughness of his understanding.
- Friedrich Nietzsche
Human, All Too Human: A Book for Free Spirits
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They say beauty is in the eye of the beholder. I think the same could be said for time.
- Jake Vander Ark
The Day I Wore Purple
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A stone is heavy and the sand is weighty; but a fool's wrath is heavier than them both.
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Despite its successes, in the end, philosophical thinking always falls short of its real goal. It involves both the wonder of aspiring toward the Truth and the distress of falling short of that Truth. In this way, philosophy can be characterized as wondrous distress.
- John Marmysz
The Path of Philosophy: Truth, Wonder, and Distress
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Self-discipline is a form of freedom. Freedom from laziness and lethargy, freedom from expectations and demands of others, freedom from weakness and fear -- and doubt.
- H. A. Dorfman
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There is no future without a past, because what is to be cannot be imagined except as a form of repetition.
- Siri Hustvedt
The Summer Without Men
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Poetry and art nourish the soul of the world with the flavor-filled substances of beauty, wisdom and truth.
- Aberjhani
Journey through the Power of the Rainbow: Quotations from a Life Made Out of Poetry
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There are no free lunches in philosophy any more than in real life.
- Jaegwon Kim
Mind in a Physical World: An Essay on the Mind-Body Problem and Mental Causation
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
The business of philosophy is to teach man to live in uncertainty... not to reassure him, but to upset him.
- Lev Shestov
All Things are Possible
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
It's impossible to walk through solid rock... You have to walk between the molecules that make up the rock.
- J.M. Dattilo
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
By that which you kill are you bound.
- O.R. Melling
The Summer King
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Do you mean that you think you can find out the answer to it?" said the March Hare.
"Exactly so," said Alice.
"Then you should say what you mean," the March Hare went on.
"I do," Alice hastily replied; "at least--at least I mean what I say--that's the same thing, you know."
"You might just as well say," added the Dormouse, which seemed to be talking in its sleep, "that 'I breathe
when I sleep' is the same thing as 'I sleep when I breathe!
- lewis carrol
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Christianity, like genius, is one of the hardest concepts to forgive. We hear what we want to hear and accept what we want to accept, for the most part, simply because there is nothing more offensive than feeling like you have to re-evaluate your own train of thought and purpose in life. You have to die to an extent in your hunger for faith, for wisdom, and quite frankly, most people aren't ready to die.
- Criss Jami
Killosophy
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Every moment of life wants to tell us something, but we do not want to hear what it has to say: when we are alone and quiet we are afraid that something will be whispered into our ear and hence we despise quiet and drug ourselves with sociability.
- Friedrich Nietzsche
Unpublished Writings from the Period of Unfashionable Observations
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
From the philosopher Catulus, never to be dismissive of a friend's accusation, even if it seems unreasonable, but to make every effort to restore the relationship to its normal condition.
- Marcus Aurelius
Meditations
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
The spectacle is at the same time the mirage of self in the mirror of things.
- Paul Ricoeur
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
And now I see the face of god, and I raise this god over the earth, this god whom men have sought since men came into being, this god who will grant them joy and peace and pride. This god, this one word: 'I.
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
The perfect is the enemy of the good.
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Language disguises thought.
- Ludwig Wittgenstein
Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
A poet or philosopher should have no fault to find with his age if it only permits him to do his work undisturbed in his own corner; nor with his fate if the corner granted him allows of his following his vocation without having to think about other people.
- Arthur Schopenhauer
The Art of Literature
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Life: It is better not to wrap philosophy around such an inconceivable evolving beautiful mystery. If based on perception, alone; whatever the conclusion - it is still guessing.
- T.F. Hodge
From Within I Rise: Spiritual Triumph over Death and Conscious Encounters With the Divine Presence
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
All modern philosophizing is political, policed by governments, churches, academics, custom, fashion, and human cowardice, all of which limit it to a fake learnedness.
- Friedrich Nietzsche
Philosophy in the Tragic Age of the Greeks
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
It is related that Sakyamuni [the historical Buddha] once dismissed as of small consequence a feat of levitation on the part of a disciple, and cried out in pity for a yogin by the river who had spent twenty years of his human existence learning to walk on water, when the ferryman might have taken him across for a small coin.
- Peter Matthiessen
The Snow Leopard
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Think of me as an impetuous Hegel, drunk with power, and also, regular drunk.
- Eugene Mirman
The Will to Whatevs: A Guide to Modern Life – The Ultimate Satirical Field Manual for Becoming an Artist or Disappointing Your Parents
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
The more thoroughly a person understands life, the less he will mock, though in the end he might still mock the "thoroughness of his understanding.
- Friedrich Nietzsche
Human, All Too Human: A Book for Free Spirits
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
They say beauty is in the eye of the beholder. I think the same could be said for time.
- Jake Vander Ark
The Day I Wore Purple
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
A stone is heavy and the sand is weighty; but a fool's wrath is heavier than them both.
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Despite its successes, in the end, philosophical thinking always falls short of its real goal. It involves both the wonder of aspiring toward the Truth and the distress of falling short of that Truth. In this way, philosophy can be characterized as wondrous distress.
- John Marmysz
The Path of Philosophy: Truth, Wonder, and Distress
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Self-discipline is a form of freedom. Freedom from laziness and lethargy, freedom from expectations and demands of others, freedom from weakness and fear -- and doubt.
- H. A. Dorfman
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
There is no future without a past, because what is to be cannot be imagined except as a form of repetition.
- Siri Hustvedt
The Summer Without Men
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Poetry and art nourish the soul of the world with the flavor-filled substances of beauty, wisdom and truth.
- Aberjhani
Journey through the Power of the Rainbow: Quotations from a Life Made Out of Poetry
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
There are no free lunches in philosophy any more than in real life.
- Jaegwon Kim
Mind in a Physical World: An Essay on the Mind-Body Problem and Mental Causation
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
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