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