Philosophy Quotes
Questions about meaning, existence, and truth from thinkers who spent their lives searching for answers.
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"What we resist persists; what we accept transforms."Mares, Edwin
"We become what we repeatedly think about."Mares, Edwin
"The highest form of philosophy is questions without certain answers."Mares, Edwin
"Philosophy is the art of asking the right questions."Shackel, Nicholas
"Philosophy begins where certainty ends."Shackel, Nicholas
"The paradox is only a conflict between reality and your feeling of what reality ought to be."Priest, Graham
"To understand the world, one must first understand paradox."Priest, Graham
"The study of being is the study of contradiction."Priest, Graham
"Every statement contains its own denial."Priest, Graham
"Every proof contains the seeds of its own refutation."Priest, Graham
"Being and nothingness are closer than we suppose."Priest, Graham
"The self is a story we tell ourselves continuously."Priest, Graham
"We are all trapped in our own narratives."Priest, Graham
"Language is the prison and the key simultaneously."Priest, Graham
"Philosophy begins in wonder and returns to it."Priest, Graham
"The universe is logical only to those who accept paradox."Priest, Graham
"The self transcends rational explanation."Priest, Graham
"We are the universe examining itself."Priest, Graham
"The examined life is the only life worth living."Priest, Graham
"The subjunctive mood reveals how language shapes our understanding of possibility itself."Edgington, Dorothy
"The subjunctive mood teaches us that the unreal can be more illuminating than the real."Edgington, Dorothy
"The deepest insights often hide in the structure of sentences."Edgington, Dorothy
"Philosophy begins with the simple question: what else could be true?"Edgington, Dorothy
"To question language is to question existence itself."Edgington, Dorothy
"In every statement lies a hidden world of implications."Edgington, Dorothy
"We are creatures of conditional thought, capable of infinite revision."Edgington, Dorothy
"Every conditional statement is an implicit belief about human agency."Edgington, Dorothy
"The deepest truths are often hidden in grammatical structures."Edgington, Dorothy
"The subjunctive mood is philosophy made linguistic."Edgington, Dorothy
"Philosophy begins when we stop accepting the world as simply given."Edgington, Dorothy