Philosophy Quotes

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

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"In defending our beliefs, we often defeat ourselves."
Sosa, Ernest
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"The examined life is a life in dialogue with itself and with others."
Sosa, Ernest
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"In the pursuit of understanding, the journey itself is the destination."
Sosa, Ernest
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"Understanding is an endless conversation between the mind and reality."
Sosa, Ernest
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"The greatest intellectual achievement is knowing how little we truly know."
Sosa, Ernest
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"In seeking truth, we are seeking ourselves."
Sosa, Ernest
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"We are all philosophers; some of us simply acknowledge it."
Sosa, Ernest
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"The examined belief is the foundation of the examined life."
Sosa, Ernest
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"Painting is a state of being."
Pollock, John
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"The artist's struggle is the human condition made visible."
Pollock, John
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"One needs the chaos of creation to find order."
Pollock, John
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"I see no reason to separate high art from popular expression."
Pollock, John
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"There is no reality except the reality we create through our work."
Pollock, John
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"The canvas is not a backdrop for ideas, it is the idea itself."
Pollock, John
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"I see myself as an explorer of the human spirit."
Pollock, John
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"Virtue epistemology asks what intellectual virtues are necessary for understanding."
Goldman, Alvin
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"Metaphysics explores the fundamental nature of reality itself."
Goldman, Alvin
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"The problem of other minds challenges our certainty about others' experiences."
Goldman, Alvin
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"Internalism versus externalism divides theories of mental content."
Goldman, Alvin
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"Folk psychology uses intuitive explanations for human behavior."
Goldman, Alvin
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"Intentionality is the property of representing something beyond itself."
Goldman, Alvin
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"Analytic philosophy values careful examination of concepts and arguments."
Goldman, Alvin
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"Phenomenology examines the structures of conscious experience directly."
Goldman, Alvin
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"Language shapes how we think about and categorize reality."
Goldman, Alvin
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"Cultural variation in beliefs reflects different but valid perspectives."
Goldman, Alvin
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"The limits of language reveal the limits of what we can think."
Goldman, Alvin
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"Meaning emerges through our efforts to understand and connect concepts."
Goldman, Alvin
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"Rational disagreement teaches us as much as consensus does."
Goldman, Alvin
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"Clarity in thinking begins with clarity in language."
Goldman, Alvin
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"Consciousness remains one of philosophy's most persistent puzzles."
Goldman, Alvin