Philosophy Quotes

Questions about meaning, existence, and truth from thinkers who spent their lives searching for answers.

43879 quotes

"Nothing in the world is worth the wear of winning it."
Samuel Beckett
"What is the point of going on?"
Samuel Beckett
"There is nothing more absurd than existence."
Samuel Beckett
"We are all monsters in the making."
Samuel Beckett
"The universe is indifferent to our suffering."
Samuel Beckett
"I am nothing and nothing is me."
Samuel Beckett
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"His mind was a prism through which all human experience was refracted."
James Joyce
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"Consciousness is the condition of human existence."
James Joyce
J
"Every person carries within them the entire history of humanity."
James Joyce
J
"The artist and the philosopher are one."
James Joyce
L
"The struggle between good and evil runs through the heart of every man."
Leo Tolstoy
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"The heart knows truths the mind cannot grasp."
Leo Tolstoy
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"All the philosophy in the world cannot change the human heart."
George Eliot
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"The universe has no such thing as a straight line."
George Eliot
G
"The very nature of existence is composed of complexity."
George Eliot
T
"We are all ghosts, and all equally placed in this ghostly world."
Thomas Hardy
T
"All things merge into one another—good into evil, generosity into justice."
Thomas Hardy
T
"Character is fate."
Thomas Hardy
T
"Thought's the slave of life, and life time's fool."
Thomas Hardy
T
"To be is to be subject to fate."
Thomas Hardy
T
"Every material advance has been purchased at the cost of the soul."
Thomas Hardy
T
"The mind of a man is a universe unto itself."
Thomas Hardy
T
"The heart knows reasons that reason knows not of."
Thomas Hardy
T
"Fate is a cruel master, but man is a crueler one."
Thomas Hardy
T
"The universe is indifferent to human suffering."
Thomas Hardy
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"What is prudery but an attempt to make others feel the shame we ourselves should feel?"
Anne Brontë
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"The human heart is a mysterious thing."
Anne Brontë
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"How can we know the dancer from the dance?"
William Butler Yeats
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"How strange it is to be anything at all."
William Butler Yeats
W
"I measure all the world by the impact it has on me."
William Butler Yeats