Philosophy Quotes
Questions about meaning, existence, and truth from thinkers who spent their lives searching for answers.
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"To be or not to be, that is the question"William Shakespeare
"There is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so"William Shakespeare
"King of infinite space though bounded in a nutshell"William Shakespeare
"Darkness has depth and light has substance."Lord Byron
"The great discovery of my life has been that virtue is not hereditary."Lord Byron
"There is profound wisdom in simplicity."Lord Byron
"The human heart is capable of great depths and great heights."Lord Byron
"In every man there is both a poet and a warrior."Lord Byron
"Philosophy is the love of wisdom and the wisdom of love."Dante Alighieri
"Philosophy asks the questions that science cannot answer."Dante Alighieri
"The world is too much with us; late and soon, getting and spending, we lay waste our powers."William Wordsworth
"There is no force in the world equal to an idea whose time has come."William Wordsworth
"The unexamined life is not worth living."Geoffrey Chaucer
"A man sees in the world what he carries in his heart."Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
"Self-knowledge comes from observing the actions of oneself."Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
"Everything that happens once can never happen again. But everything that happens twice will surely happen a third time."Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
"To be or not to be, that is the question."William Shakespeare
"Fair is foul, and foul is fair."William Shakespeare
"We are all shadows, and this play is but a shadow of life."William Shakespeare
"Evil be thou my good."John Milton
"The mind through all her powers irradiate, all are not fit with equal freedom found."John Milton
"How charming is divine Philosophy! Not harsh and crabbed as dull fools suppose."John Milton
"Chance is a word void of sense; nothing can happen without a cause."Ovid
"Progress is the law of nature."Ovid
"The world is as you think it is."Ovid
"The mind is a restless thing."Virgil
"The universe is a stage; we are merely players."Virgil
"To be great is to be misunderstood."Homer
"The infinite is a problem for philosophers, but not for poets."Dante Alighieri
"As a man is so he sees."Dante Alighieri