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
H
"Being and becoming are two aspects of the same reality."
Heraclitus
H
"What we call fate is merely our choices becoming manifest."
Heraclitus
H
"What feeds the fire consumes itself."
Heraclitus
H
"The soul that chooses virtue is the soul that flows with the logos."
Heraclitus
H
"What we struggle against strengthens itself through resistance."
Heraclitus
H
"The universe is written in the language of change."
Heraclitus
H
"The eternal fire that moves through all things is called logos."
Heraclitus
A
"The whole is greater than the sum of its parts."
Aristotle
A
"To perceive is to suffer."
Aristotle
A
"Tolerance and apathy are the last virtues of a dying society."
Aristotle
A
"Leisure is the basis of culture."
Aristotle
A
"Logos is being awake. It is the real."
Aristotle
"A life lived without philosophy is like a journey without a map."
Epicurus
C
"When the will to power is gone, curiosity remains."
Confucius
C
"The demands that all events shall be treated as clock-like puzzles to be solved is what characterizes the modem mind."
Confucius
C
"Tradition without innovation leads to stagnation; innovation without tradition leads to chaos."
Confucius
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"The path up and down are one and the same."
Heraclitus
H
"Hot and cold, bitter and sweet, separate and combine."
Heraclitus
H
"What you resist, you strengthen; what you accept, you transform."
Heraclitus
H
"The universe is a dance of opposing forces in perfect harmony."
Heraclitus
H
"In unity is the seed of division; in division, the seed of unity."
Heraclitus
H
"The soul speaks in metaphors; the mind understands in symbols."
Heraclitus
P
"Philosophy begins in wonder."
Plato
P
"When the mind is thinking it is talking to itself."
Plato
P
"To be is to do."
Plato
P
"To a wise man, even life is a misfortune."
Plato
P
"Wonder at the multitude of the great and wise is the appropriate state of a philosopher."
Plato
P
"Human behavior flows from three main sources: desire, emotion, and knowledge."
Plato
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"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