Philosophy Quotes
Questions about meaning, existence, and truth from thinkers who spent their lives searching for answers.
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"Some women are supposed to devote themselves to God; others to man."Charlotte Brontë
"The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself."George Bernard Shaw
"Do you know what a pessimist is? A man who thinks everybody is as nasty as himself, and hates them for it."George Bernard Shaw
"All the world's a stage, and all the men and women are merely players who have had their parts assigned them by fate."George Bernard Shaw
"The natural morality of sensible people must be quite irrespective of the morality of the supernatural being they call God."George Bernard Shaw
"There is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so."Oscar Wilde
"I have made an important discovery: all life is only a dream."Oscar Wilde
"The human heart is a strange mixture of contradictions."Anne Brontë
"I believe we are shaped by both our choices and our circumstances."Anne Brontë
"We are all prisoners of our own natures to some degree."Anne Brontë
"The heart's desires often conflict with duty's demands."Anne Brontë
"The depths of the human heart are often unfathomable."Anne Brontë
"The greatest misfortune of the proud is having to live with themselves."Emily Brontë
"In darkness, we find our truest selves."Emily Brontë
"The world fears what it does not understand."Emily Brontë
"The mind creates the prison or the palace."Emily Brontë
"The night reveals what the day conceals."Emily Brontë
"The soul's language is deeper than words."Emily Brontë
"We create meaning through our choices, however constrained those choices may be."Thomas Hardy
"The universe is indifferent to human suffering and joy alike."Thomas Hardy
"The self is not fixed but fluid, constantly becoming."Thomas Hardy
"The universe cares nothing for our petty struggles."Thomas Hardy
"The self is revealed not in solitude but in relationship."Thomas Hardy
"Every limitation is also a possibility."George Eliot
"The greatest wisdom is in knowing what we do not know."George Eliot
"What is life but the unfolding of our character?"George Eliot
"The unexamined life is not worth living, yet too much examination can paralyze us."George Eliot
"Every person is a door to understanding the human condition."George Eliot
"Life is both a question and the process of answering it."George Eliot
"Every man has cause to think himself ill used, if he compares himself with the more fortunate"Charles Dickens