Philosophy Quotes
Questions about meaning, existence, and truth from thinkers who spent their lives searching for answers.
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"Human nature is always the same in every age."Fyodor Dostoevsky
"The true paradise is the paradise that we have lost."Fyodor Dostoevsky
"Madness is often the only way to preserve sanity."Fyodor Dostoevsky
"Every person carries a world within themselves."Fyodor Dostoevsky
"The struggle which we call existence is a struggle of beliefs."Leo Tolstoy
"The main source of suffering is desire and attachment."Leo Tolstoy
"Consciousness is the only door to being, to existing, to becoming."Leo Tolstoy
"I simply cannot stop myself from thinking about the meaning of my existence."Leo Tolstoy
"The more we live by our intellect, the less we understand the meaning of life."Leo Tolstoy
"The principle of true morality lies in not transgressing the bounds of reason and natural law."Leo Tolstoy
"A man who becomes conscious of the absurdity of human condition is finally freed from it."Leo Tolstoy
"The greatest evil is materialism masquerading as reason."Leo Tolstoy
"Love, friendship, respect do not unite people as much as a common hatred for something."Anton Chekhov
"There is something in human nature which prevents us from being satisfied."Anton Chekhov
"In life one must sometimes make a decision between two evils."Anton Chekhov
"I want to understand the human being in all their manifestations."Anton Chekhov
"The thief thinks everyone is a thief."Anton Chekhov
"I believe that everything that happens in life is incidental."Anton Chekhov
"Man is what he believes."Anton Chekhov
"The feeling of the human soul is more mysterious than the universe."Anton Chekhov
"Nothing is a miracle, everything in life is relative to everything else."Anton Chekhov
"To different minds, the same world is a hell and a paradise."Anton Chekhov
"Mysticism is the child of meditation."Anton Chekhov
"In our time, every thinking man feels before everything else the yawning abyss of skepticism."Ivan Turgenev
"To live without philosophy is, in fact, to live blindly."Ivan Turgenev
"How can we know the dancer from the dance?"William Butler Yeats
"Sailing to Byzantium is not just a journey, it is a spiritual quest."William Butler Yeats
"Why should not old men be mad?"William Butler Yeats
"The second coming brings rough beasts slouching."William Butler Yeats
"The mask outlasts the man."William Butler Yeats