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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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Do you want to achieve something or do you just want to make money?” asked a nearby man in a white shirt to another man in a striped shirt. I waited for the answer as I slowly walked past them.
“Why is it an either or question?” the man in the striped shirt finally murmured philosophically under a sip of beer. They both stood there looking at each other in thought.
- Daniel Amory
Minor Snobs
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Mr. Trask, do you think the thoughts of people suddenly become important at a given age? Do you have sharper feelings or clearer thoughts now than when you were ten? Do you see as well, hear as well, taste as vitally?
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Should I have a doughnut or my disgusting cardboard?” asked Gwynn, as she drew up languidly before me at a study table in a bookstore on State Street, raising a puffed rice cake in the air.
My eyes narrowed attentively at her face, but as I hesitated, she announced eagerly, “Disgusting cardboard it is!
- Daniel Amory
Minor Snobs
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It's a sad day for American Capitalism when a man can't fly a midget on a kite over central park.
- Jim Moran
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All social inequalities which have ceased to be considered expedient, assume the character not of simple inexpediency, but of injustice, and appear so tyrannical, that people are apt to wonder how they ever could have. been tolerated; forgetful that they themselves perhaps tolerate other inequalities under an equally mistaken notion of expediency, the correction of which would make that which they approve seem quite as monstrous as what they have at last learnt to condemn.
- John Stuart Mill
Utilitarianism
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Let those who want to save the world if you can get to see it clear and as a whole. Then any part you make will represent the whole if it's made truly. The thing to do is work and learn to make it.
- Ernest Hemingway
Death in the Afternoon
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The positivists have a simple solution: the world must be divided into that which we can say clearly and the rest, which we had better pass over in silence. But can anyone conceive of a more pointless philosophy, seeing that what we can say clearly amounts to next to nothing? If we omitted all that is unclear, we would probably be left completely uninteresting and trivial tautologies.
- Werner Heisenberg
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The fact that life has no meaning is a reason to live-moreover, the only one.
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Students of the heavens are separable into astronomers and astrologers as readily as are the minor domestic ruminants into sheep and goats, but the separation of philosophers into sages and cranks seems to be more sensitive to frames of reference.
- W.V.O. Quine
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Is beauty enhanced or adulterated by utility?
- Sena Jeter Naslund
Ahab's Wife, or The Star-Gazer
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If disaster, so be it, they said to themselves. There was nothing to be done except what could be done. The rest -- like the salt water around them, which swallowed the snow without effort, remaining what it was implacably -- was out of their hands, beyond.
- David Guterson
Snow Falling on Cedars
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An ordinary mirror is silvered at the back but the window of the night train has darkness behind the glass. My face and the faces of other travellers were now mirrored on this darkness in a succession of stillnesses. Consider this, said the darkness: any motion at any speed is a succession of stillnesses; any section through an action will show just such a plane of stillness as this dark window in which your seeking face is mirrored. And in each plane of stillness is the moment of clarity that makes you responsible for what you do.
- Russell Hoban
The Medusa Frequency
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The fundamental reality of the universe is a continuum, a unitive field or fabric of energy and consciousness that goes beyond time, space, and all forms and yet lies within them. In traditional Asian religions, this unitive field is variously referred to as Tao or Brahman. Some Native North Americans refer to it as Wakan-Tanka, the all-pervading Creator Spirit. The pre-Christian Anglo-Saxons of the British Isles called it the Wyrd. In the systems language of postmodern science, it is seen as an infinitely complex system of interrelationships or a 'web of life.
- Ralph Metzner
Green Psychology: Transforming our Relationship to the Earth
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You will find no one willing to share out his money; but to how many does each of us divide up his lofe!People are frugal in guarding their personal property; but as soon as it comes to squandering time they are most wasteful of the one thing in which it is right to be stingy.
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The Lacandones have no way of saying 'hello' or 'good-bye'; when they meet they just start talking, and when they depart they just walk away. It's as if the bonds of family and friendship are not disconnected by distance and therefore do not need to be reestablished.
- Ralph Metzner
Green Psychology: Transforming our Relationship to the Earth
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Wars between people cannot be reduced or eliminated as long as the war with nature proceeds quite unconsciously. Both situations of war may ultimately be seen as externalizations of the conflicts and wars within human consciousness. If this is so, then our task becomes one of recognizing and confronting the 'inner enemy,' the inner antagonist. We need to recognize and withdraw the projections of this inner enemy onto external agents or forces—whether this be other human beings or the world of wild nature.
- Ralph Metzner
Green Psychology: Transforming our Relationship to the Earth
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Loneliness is a state of emotional pain. Being alone is a state of physical removal. Loneliness can be debilitating. Being alone can be empowering.
- Gregory P. Smith
Better than Happiness: The True Antidote to Discontent
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In the Labyrinth, the truth doesn’t set you free. It deconstructs you.
- Edon Kadmos
Beirut Labyrinth – EXIT
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Father has a strengthening character like the sun and mother has a soothing temper like the moon.
- Amit Kalantri
Wealth of Words
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If you can't impress them with your argument, impress them with your actions.
- Amit Kalantri
Wealth of Words
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I drink cup of sunlight every morning to brighten myself.
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If you're not happy in life then you need to change, calibrate, readjust...flush your negative energy and fill it with positive energy; How do we do that you might ask? well I would start by making others happy, deseases are not the only thing that spreads easy. We are all connected in some form of unseen energy... think how those around you will impact you and make you feel if they were happy?
- Al Munoz
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Health is hearty, health is harmony, health is happiness.
- Amit Kalantri
Wealth of Words
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You are happy when you are enthusiastic and action-oriented, not when you are luxury and pleasure oriented.
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Do you want to achieve something or do you just want to make money?” asked a nearby man in a white shirt to another man in a striped shirt. I waited for the answer as I slowly walked past them.
“Why is it an either or question?” the man in the striped shirt finally murmured philosophically under a sip of beer. They both stood there looking at each other in thought.
- Daniel Amory
Minor Snobs
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Mr. Trask, do you think the thoughts of people suddenly become important at a given age? Do you have sharper feelings or clearer thoughts now than when you were ten? Do you see as well, hear as well, taste as vitally?
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Should I have a doughnut or my disgusting cardboard?” asked Gwynn, as she drew up languidly before me at a study table in a bookstore on State Street, raising a puffed rice cake in the air.
My eyes narrowed attentively at her face, but as I hesitated, she announced eagerly, “Disgusting cardboard it is!
- Daniel Amory
Minor Snobs
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It's a sad day for American Capitalism when a man can't fly a midget on a kite over central park.
- Jim Moran
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All social inequalities which have ceased to be considered expedient, assume the character not of simple inexpediency, but of injustice, and appear so tyrannical, that people are apt to wonder how they ever could have. been tolerated; forgetful that they themselves perhaps tolerate other inequalities under an equally mistaken notion of expediency, the correction of which would make that which they approve seem quite as monstrous as what they have at last learnt to condemn.
- John Stuart Mill
Utilitarianism
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Let those who want to save the world if you can get to see it clear and as a whole. Then any part you make will represent the whole if it's made truly. The thing to do is work and learn to make it.
- Ernest Hemingway
Death in the Afternoon
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The positivists have a simple solution: the world must be divided into that which we can say clearly and the rest, which we had better pass over in silence. But can anyone conceive of a more pointless philosophy, seeing that what we can say clearly amounts to next to nothing? If we omitted all that is unclear, we would probably be left completely uninteresting and trivial tautologies.
- Werner Heisenberg
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The fact that life has no meaning is a reason to live-moreover, the only one.
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Students of the heavens are separable into astronomers and astrologers as readily as are the minor domestic ruminants into sheep and goats, but the separation of philosophers into sages and cranks seems to be more sensitive to frames of reference.
- W.V.O. Quine
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Is beauty enhanced or adulterated by utility?
- Sena Jeter Naslund
Ahab's Wife, or The Star-Gazer
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If disaster, so be it, they said to themselves. There was nothing to be done except what could be done. The rest -- like the salt water around them, which swallowed the snow without effort, remaining what it was implacably -- was out of their hands, beyond.
- David Guterson
Snow Falling on Cedars
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An ordinary mirror is silvered at the back but the window of the night train has darkness behind the glass. My face and the faces of other travellers were now mirrored on this darkness in a succession of stillnesses. Consider this, said the darkness: any motion at any speed is a succession of stillnesses; any section through an action will show just such a plane of stillness as this dark window in which your seeking face is mirrored. And in each plane of stillness is the moment of clarity that makes you responsible for what you do.
- Russell Hoban
The Medusa Frequency
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The fundamental reality of the universe is a continuum, a unitive field or fabric of energy and consciousness that goes beyond time, space, and all forms and yet lies within them. In traditional Asian religions, this unitive field is variously referred to as Tao or Brahman. Some Native North Americans refer to it as Wakan-Tanka, the all-pervading Creator Spirit. The pre-Christian Anglo-Saxons of the British Isles called it the Wyrd. In the systems language of postmodern science, it is seen as an infinitely complex system of interrelationships or a 'web of life.
- Ralph Metzner
Green Psychology: Transforming our Relationship to the Earth
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
You will find no one willing to share out his money; but to how many does each of us divide up his lofe!People are frugal in guarding their personal property; but as soon as it comes to squandering time they are most wasteful of the one thing in which it is right to be stingy.
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
The Lacandones have no way of saying 'hello' or 'good-bye'; when they meet they just start talking, and when they depart they just walk away. It's as if the bonds of family and friendship are not disconnected by distance and therefore do not need to be reestablished.
- Ralph Metzner
Green Psychology: Transforming our Relationship to the Earth
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Wars between people cannot be reduced or eliminated as long as the war with nature proceeds quite unconsciously. Both situations of war may ultimately be seen as externalizations of the conflicts and wars within human consciousness. If this is so, then our task becomes one of recognizing and confronting the 'inner enemy,' the inner antagonist. We need to recognize and withdraw the projections of this inner enemy onto external agents or forces—whether this be other human beings or the world of wild nature.
- Ralph Metzner
Green Psychology: Transforming our Relationship to the Earth
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Loneliness is a state of emotional pain. Being alone is a state of physical removal. Loneliness can be debilitating. Being alone can be empowering.
- Gregory P. Smith
Better than Happiness: The True Antidote to Discontent
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
In the Labyrinth, the truth doesn’t set you free. It deconstructs you.
- Edon Kadmos
Beirut Labyrinth – EXIT
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Father has a strengthening character like the sun and mother has a soothing temper like the moon.
- Amit Kalantri
Wealth of Words
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If you can't impress them with your argument, impress them with your actions.
- Amit Kalantri
Wealth of Words
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I drink cup of sunlight every morning to brighten myself.
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If you're not happy in life then you need to change, calibrate, readjust...flush your negative energy and fill it with positive energy; How do we do that you might ask? well I would start by making others happy, deseases are not the only thing that spreads easy. We are all connected in some form of unseen energy... think how those around you will impact you and make you feel if they were happy?
- Al Munoz
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Health is hearty, health is harmony, health is happiness.
- Amit Kalantri
Wealth of Words
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You are happy when you are enthusiastic and action-oriented, not when you are luxury and pleasure oriented.
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Do you want to achieve something or do you just want to make money?” asked a nearby man in a white shirt to another man in a striped shirt. I waited for the answer as I slowly walked past them.
“Why is it an either or question?” the man in the striped shirt finally murmured philosophically under a sip of beer. They both stood there looking at each other in thought.
- Daniel Amory
Minor Snobs
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Mr. Trask, do you think the thoughts of people suddenly become important at a given age? Do you have sharper feelings or clearer thoughts now than when you were ten? Do you see as well, hear as well, taste as vitally?
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Should I have a doughnut or my disgusting cardboard?” asked Gwynn, as she drew up languidly before me at a study table in a bookstore on State Street, raising a puffed rice cake in the air.
My eyes narrowed attentively at her face, but as I hesitated, she announced eagerly, “Disgusting cardboard it is!
- Daniel Amory
Minor Snobs
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
It's a sad day for American Capitalism when a man can't fly a midget on a kite over central park.
- Jim Moran
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
All social inequalities which have ceased to be considered expedient, assume the character not of simple inexpediency, but of injustice, and appear so tyrannical, that people are apt to wonder how they ever could have. been tolerated; forgetful that they themselves perhaps tolerate other inequalities under an equally mistaken notion of expediency, the correction of which would make that which they approve seem quite as monstrous as what they have at last learnt to condemn.
- John Stuart Mill
Utilitarianism
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Let those who want to save the world if you can get to see it clear and as a whole. Then any part you make will represent the whole if it's made truly. The thing to do is work and learn to make it.
- Ernest Hemingway
Death in the Afternoon
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
The positivists have a simple solution: the world must be divided into that which we can say clearly and the rest, which we had better pass over in silence. But can anyone conceive of a more pointless philosophy, seeing that what we can say clearly amounts to next to nothing? If we omitted all that is unclear, we would probably be left completely uninteresting and trivial tautologies.
- Werner Heisenberg
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
The fact that life has no meaning is a reason to live-moreover, the only one.
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Students of the heavens are separable into astronomers and astrologers as readily as are the minor domestic ruminants into sheep and goats, but the separation of philosophers into sages and cranks seems to be more sensitive to frames of reference.
- W.V.O. Quine
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Is beauty enhanced or adulterated by utility?
- Sena Jeter Naslund
Ahab's Wife, or The Star-Gazer
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
If disaster, so be it, they said to themselves. There was nothing to be done except what could be done. The rest -- like the salt water around them, which swallowed the snow without effort, remaining what it was implacably -- was out of their hands, beyond.
- David Guterson
Snow Falling on Cedars
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
An ordinary mirror is silvered at the back but the window of the night train has darkness behind the glass. My face and the faces of other travellers were now mirrored on this darkness in a succession of stillnesses. Consider this, said the darkness: any motion at any speed is a succession of stillnesses; any section through an action will show just such a plane of stillness as this dark window in which your seeking face is mirrored. And in each plane of stillness is the moment of clarity that makes you responsible for what you do.
- Russell Hoban
The Medusa Frequency
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
The fundamental reality of the universe is a continuum, a unitive field or fabric of energy and consciousness that goes beyond time, space, and all forms and yet lies within them. In traditional Asian religions, this unitive field is variously referred to as Tao or Brahman. Some Native North Americans refer to it as Wakan-Tanka, the all-pervading Creator Spirit. The pre-Christian Anglo-Saxons of the British Isles called it the Wyrd. In the systems language of postmodern science, it is seen as an infinitely complex system of interrelationships or a 'web of life.
- Ralph Metzner
Green Psychology: Transforming our Relationship to the Earth
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
You will find no one willing to share out his money; but to how many does each of us divide up his lofe!People are frugal in guarding their personal property; but as soon as it comes to squandering time they are most wasteful of the one thing in which it is right to be stingy.
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
The Lacandones have no way of saying 'hello' or 'good-bye'; when they meet they just start talking, and when they depart they just walk away. It's as if the bonds of family and friendship are not disconnected by distance and therefore do not need to be reestablished.
- Ralph Metzner
Green Psychology: Transforming our Relationship to the Earth
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Wars between people cannot be reduced or eliminated as long as the war with nature proceeds quite unconsciously. Both situations of war may ultimately be seen as externalizations of the conflicts and wars within human consciousness. If this is so, then our task becomes one of recognizing and confronting the 'inner enemy,' the inner antagonist. We need to recognize and withdraw the projections of this inner enemy onto external agents or forces—whether this be other human beings or the world of wild nature.
- Ralph Metzner
Green Psychology: Transforming our Relationship to the Earth
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Loneliness is a state of emotional pain. Being alone is a state of physical removal. Loneliness can be debilitating. Being alone can be empowering.
- Gregory P. Smith
Better than Happiness: The True Antidote to Discontent
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
In the Labyrinth, the truth doesn’t set you free. It deconstructs you.
- Edon Kadmos
Beirut Labyrinth – EXIT
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Father has a strengthening character like the sun and mother has a soothing temper like the moon.
- Amit Kalantri
Wealth of Words
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
If you can't impress them with your argument, impress them with your actions.
- Amit Kalantri
Wealth of Words
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
I drink cup of sunlight every morning to brighten myself.
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
If you're not happy in life then you need to change, calibrate, readjust...flush your negative energy and fill it with positive energy; How do we do that you might ask? well I would start by making others happy, deseases are not the only thing that spreads easy. We are all connected in some form of unseen energy... think how those around you will impact you and make you feel if they were happy?
- Al Munoz
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Health is hearty, health is harmony, health is happiness.
- Amit Kalantri
Wealth of Words
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
You are happy when you are enthusiastic and action-oriented, not when you are luxury and pleasure oriented.
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
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