Philosophy Quotes

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

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"The human being is an expression of the universe becoming conscious of itself."
Whitehead, Alfred North
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"Discordance requires an event that is discordant with its background."
Whitehead, Alfred North
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"Either mathematics is too big for the human mind, or the human mind is more than a machine."
Gödel, Kurt
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"Platonism is the only philosophy that takes the infinite seriously."
Gödel, Kurt
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"The mind is not a computer because the mind has intentionality."
Gödel, Kurt
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"Consciousness is the only reality."
Gödel, Kurt
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"Logic does not suffice to describe reality; we need intuition."
Gödel, Kurt
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"The material world may not be the only world that exists."
Gödel, Kurt
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"One cannot solve the problem of consciousness through reduction to physics."
Gödel, Kurt
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"Rationality demands that we accept mysteries we cannot resolve."
Gödel, Kurt
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"Formalization can never capture the essence of human understanding."
Gödel, Kurt
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"The implications of incompleteness extend far beyond mathematics itself."
Gödel, Kurt
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"The self-referential nature of logic reveals something about consciousness."
Gödel, Kurt
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"Logic is powerful, but it is not all-powerful."
Gödel, Kurt
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"One cannot separate the observer from the observed in logic."
Gödel, Kurt
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"Formalism is useful, but a formalist cannot be a complete mathematician."
Gödel, Kurt
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"To embrace paradox is to embrace truth."
Gödel, Kurt
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"The view from nowhere is a form of objectivity that humans can partially achieve."
Nagel, Thomas
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"Consciousness is the most mysterious phenomenon in the universe."
Nagel, Thomas
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"Subjective experience cannot be fully reduced to physical facts."
Nagel, Thomas
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"The universe does not care about our desires or preferences."
Nagel, Thomas
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"Personal identity is more complex than we typically assume."
Nagel, Thomas
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"The self is not a thing but a perspective."
Nagel, Thomas
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"Morality cannot be derived from facts alone."
Nagel, Thomas
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"Absurdity is a fundamental feature of human existence."
Nagel, Thomas
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"We live in a world that makes no sense to us."
Nagel, Thomas
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"Existence precedes essence in all meaningful ways."
Nagel, Thomas
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"Value emerges from the perspective of living beings."
Nagel, Thomas
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"Panpsychism may be closer to truth than materialism."
Nagel, Thomas
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"Meaning is created by consciousness, not discovered."
Nagel, Thomas