Philosophy Quotes

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

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"We ourselves are the entities to be analyzed."
Heidegger, Martin
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"The nothing is the veil of being."
Heidegger, Martin
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"The human is the shepherd of being."
Heidegger, Martin
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"Being withdrawn into mystery is the very essence of world."
Heidegger, Martin
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"World is not the sum total of things present."
Heidegger, Martin
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"Logos is speech and also unconcealment."
Heidegger, Martin
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"Difference is the very essence of being and beings."
Heidegger, Martin
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"Being is not the totality of beings but their condition."
Heidegger, Martin
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"Being withdraws as it reveals itself to us."
Heidegger, Martin
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"The gods have fled; we are homeless in the cosmos."
Heidegger, Martin
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"The thing itself is the sign that leads us to being."
Heidegger, Martin
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"Piety toward being is the highest form of thinking."
Heidegger, Martin
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"There is no separation between means and ends."
Dewey, John
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"We live in succession, in division, in parts, in particles. Meantime within man is the soul of the whole."
Dewey, John
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"The business of philosophy is to restore life and experience."
Dewey, John
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"The true test of civilisation is not the census, nor the size of cities, but the kind of man the country turns out."
Dewey, John
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"Every individual contains a universe."
Dilthey, Wilhelm
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"Culture is the accumulated experience of humanity."
Dilthey, Wilhelm
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"The individual is both unique and universal."
Dilthey, Wilhelm
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"Philosophy must begin with experience."
Dilthey, Wilhelm
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"We cannot separate thought from experience."
Dilthey, Wilhelm
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"Society evolves through cultural development."
Dilthey, Wilhelm
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"The individual mind reflects the universal mind."
Dilthey, Wilhelm
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"Meaning is created through interpretation."
Dilthey, Wilhelm
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"Culture gives meaning to human existence."
Dilthey, Wilhelm
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"The individual expresses the universal."
Dilthey, Wilhelm
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"Every text requires interpretation."
Dilthey, Wilhelm
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"Human development is never complete."
Dilthey, Wilhelm
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"Meaning emerges from context and relationship."
Dilthey, Wilhelm
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"The study of culture is the study of meaning."
Dilthey, Wilhelm