Philosophy Quotes

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

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"Personal survival requires bodily continuity and psychological connection."
Ayer, Alfred Jules
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"The universe contains no inherent purpose or design."
Ayer, Alfred Jules
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"Abstract objects exist as linguistic conveniences, not metaphysical entities."
Ayer, Alfred Jules
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"We escape philosophical confusion through attention to language."
Ayer, Alfred Jules
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"Metaphysics attempts to say the unsayable."
Ayer, Alfred Jules
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"The world is not something independent of consciousness."
Husserl, Edmund
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"Reduction is the path to transcendental consciousness."
Husserl, Edmund
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"The transcendental ego constitutes the world."
Husserl, Edmund
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"Pure consciousness can be isolated through epoché."
Husserl, Edmund
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"The subject and object are correlatives in consciousness."
Husserl, Edmund
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"The transcendental reduction is a method of philosophical clarification."
Husserl, Edmund
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"The ego is the pole of all acts."
Husserl, Edmund
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"Reason has a history and a destiny."
Husserl, Edmund
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"Being is always being-for-consciousness."
Husserl, Edmund
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"Phenomenology is the queen of sciences."
Husserl, Edmund
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"Reason is the logos of consciousness."
Husserl, Edmund
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"The bracketing of existence reveals essence."
Husserl, Edmund
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"Phenomenology is the foundation of all philosophy."
Husserl, Edmund
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"Phenomenology recovers the meaning of being."
Husserl, Edmund
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"The world is my world."
Husserl, Edmund
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"Phenomenology seeks the invariant structures of consciousness."
Husserl, Edmund
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"Phenomenology is transcendental idealism."
Husserl, Edmund
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"The transcendental structures universal essence."
Husserl, Edmund
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"The phenomenological attitude is a radical philosophical stance."
Husserl, Edmund
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"Language is the house of being."
Heidegger, Martin
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"Thinking is the dwelling of man upon the earth."
Heidegger, Martin
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"The nothing nothings."
Heidegger, Martin
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"The most dangerous thing is good intentions."
Heidegger, Martin
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"Being and nothingness are not the same thing."
Heidegger, Martin
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"Man does not decide whether and how semblance and Being belong together."
Heidegger, Martin