Philosophy Quotes
Questions about meaning, existence, and truth from thinkers who spent their lives searching for answers.
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"Every man is mad some months of the year."William Butler Yeats
"The best lack all conviction, while the worst are full of passionate intensity."William Butler Yeats
"The gyres turn and turn until the gyres turn again."William Butler Yeats
"In the beginning there was nothing, which exploded."Samuel Beckett
"I am interested in the space between things."Samuel Beckett
"There is always something infinitely mean about other people's tragedies."Oscar Wilde
"There is a luxury in self-reproach. When we blame ourselves, we feel that no one else has a right to blame us."Oscar Wilde
"Morality is simply the attitude we adopt towards people we personally dislike."Oscar Wilde
"There is something about the defiance in resentment that can provide a source of pleasure."Oscar Wilde
"The advantage of the emotions is that they lead us astray."Oscar Wilde
"The only certainty in life is that we are all uncertain about everything."Oscar Wilde
"I believe the best definition of man is the ungrateful biped."Fyodor Dostoevsky
"I think the devil doesn't exist, but man has created him; he has created him in his own image and likeness."Fyodor Dostoevsky
"Consciousness is an illness."Fyodor Dostoevsky
"To live without philosophy is to live by accident."Fyodor Dostoevsky
"I am underground because I am broken."Fyodor Dostoevsky
"The wretched spirit of mankind is the source of all his misery."Fyodor Dostoevsky
"The paradox is only a paradox to those with narrow minds."Fyodor Dostoevsky
"I am a sick man because I cannot accept the world as it is."Fyodor Dostoevsky
"I have been seeking but I have not found."Fyodor Dostoevsky
"The quality of your thoughts determines the quality of your life."Leo Tolstoy
"Science reveals the how; philosophy reveals the why."Leo Tolstoy
"The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that very existence of that world is a form of your freedom."James Joyce
"One great part of every human existence is passed in a state which cannot be rendered sensible by the use of wideawake language, cut and dry grammar and goahead plot."James Joyce
"One should bear in mind that every human being is both saint and sinner."James Joyce
"A person's character is their destiny."James Joyce
"Ordinary people contain extraordinary depths."James Joyce
"The human experience is fundamentally paradoxical."James Joyce
"Nothing to be done."Samuel Beckett
"In the beginning was the void."Samuel Beckett