Philosophy Quotes

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

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"Change requires what is not to become."
Zeno of Elea
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"All becoming is logically impossible."
Zeno of Elea
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"The void is impossible because it is not."
Zeno of Elea
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"What appears to move is actually at rest."
Zeno of Elea
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"The infinite regress defeats all motion."
Zeno of Elea
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"To be is to be immutable."
Zeno of Elea
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"All distinctions are ultimately illusory."
Zeno of Elea
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"Becoming implies non-being, which is impossible."
Zeno of Elea
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"The many are logically reducible to one."
Zeno of Elea
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"Motion cannot be completed in finite time."
Zeno of Elea
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"What is cannot become what it is not."
Zeno of Elea
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"All change is mere appearance."
Zeno of Elea
Z
"To truly be is to be eternal."
Zeno of Elea
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"All plurality collapses into unity upon analysis."
Zeno of Elea
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"The nature of man is inclined toward good."
Mencius
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"When the fundamental is established, the Way will naturally grow."
Mencius
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"The heart is the seat of all understanding."
Mencius
M
"To lose oneself in pursuit of external things is the greatest poverty."
Mencius
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"What is the purpose of life? To understand the patterns of the universe."
Pythagoras
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"To live without thinking is to exist without being."
Pythagoras
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"Opposition brings concord. Out of discord comes the fairest harmony."
Heraclitus
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"Thinking is common to all."
Heraclitus
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"The eternal flux is the fundamental nature of reality."
Heraclitus
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"A hidden connection is better than an obvious one."
Heraclitus
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"All is one and one is all."
Heraclitus
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"The path of becoming is neither moral nor immoral, but necessary."
Heraclitus
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"Eternity is a game played beautifully by the child force of existence."
Heraclitus
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"The eternal conflict between elements creates the world we know."
Heraclitus
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"Good and evil are but one; it is only perspective that separates them."
Heraclitus
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"The universe operates according to eternal principles, not chance."
Heraclitus