Philosophy Quotes
Questions about meaning, existence, and truth from thinkers who spent their lives searching for answers.
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"The world is both reasonable and mysterious."Heraclitus
"Being and becoming are two aspects of the same reality."Heraclitus
"What we call fate is merely our choices becoming manifest."Heraclitus
"What feeds the fire consumes itself."Heraclitus
"The soul that chooses virtue is the soul that flows with the logos."Heraclitus
"What we struggle against strengthens itself through resistance."Heraclitus
"The universe is written in the language of change."Heraclitus
"The eternal fire that moves through all things is called logos."Heraclitus
"The whole is greater than the sum of its parts."Aristotle
"To perceive is to suffer."Aristotle
"Tolerance and apathy are the last virtues of a dying society."Aristotle
"Leisure is the basis of culture."Aristotle
"Logos is being awake. It is the real."Aristotle
"A life lived without philosophy is like a journey without a map."Epicurus
"When the will to power is gone, curiosity remains."Confucius
"The demands that all events shall be treated as clock-like puzzles to be solved is what characterizes the modem mind."Confucius
"Tradition without innovation leads to stagnation; innovation without tradition leads to chaos."Confucius
"The path up and down are one and the same."Heraclitus
"Hot and cold, bitter and sweet, separate and combine."Heraclitus
"What you resist, you strengthen; what you accept, you transform."Heraclitus
"The universe is a dance of opposing forces in perfect harmony."Heraclitus
"In unity is the seed of division; in division, the seed of unity."Heraclitus
"The soul speaks in metaphors; the mind understands in symbols."Heraclitus
"Philosophy begins in wonder."Plato
"When the mind is thinking it is talking to itself."Plato
"To be is to do."Plato
"To a wise man, even life is a misfortune."Plato
"Wonder at the multitude of the great and wise is the appropriate state of a philosopher."Plato
"Human behavior flows from three main sources: desire, emotion, and knowledge."Plato
"Motion is impossible, for that which moves must move either in the place it is or in the place it is not; but it cannot move in the place it is, nor can it move in the place it is not."Zeno of Elea