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