Philosophy Quotes
Questions about meaning, existence, and truth from thinkers who spent their lives searching for answers.
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"A wonderful fact to reflect upon, that every human creature is constituted to be that profound secret and mystery to every other"The Narrator
"Every human creature should bear in mind that every other human creature has been created to be a mystery"The Narrator
"I try the lost child's charity of the universe."Ishmael
"Some certain significance lurks in all things, else all things are little worth."Ishmael
"I know that of me, which I know not of myself."Ishmael
"What is it, what nameless, inscrutable, unearthly thing is it?"Ishmael
"A wonderful fact to reflect upon, that every human creature is constituted to be that profound secret and mystery to every other"The Narrator
"A solemn consideration, when I enter a great city by night"The Narrator
"Some certain significance lurks in all things, else all things are little worth."Ishmael
"It is the image of the ungraspable phantom of life."Ishmael
"Perhaps you mean the world is not respectable."Elizabeth Bennet
"The least cruel torture is the one we inflict upon ourselves."Javert
"Poverty is not a virtue, but neither does it define a soul."Fantine
"Memory is both curse and comfort."Jean Valjean
"Some certain significance lurks in all things, else all things are little worth."Ishmael
"All evil comes from us alone."Ishmael
"Who can show a pedigree of good or evil that stretches higher than Adam's?"Ishmael
"A wonderful fact to reflect upon, that every human creature is constituted to be that profound secret and mystery to every other."The Narrator
"The human heart has its secrets, and the human mind its mysteries."The Narrator
"Every human creature is a mystery, even to those who believe they know them best."The Narrator
"There is no such thing as absolute truth in human affairs; there is only the truth as men perceive it."The Narrator
"The heart knows truths the mind refuses to accept."Pip
"The more I see of the world, the more I am dissatisfied with it."Mr. Bennet
"One does as one is accustomed to do."Mrs. Fairfax
"Promises made in desperation are not binding."St. John Rivers
"Misanthrope I am, not misanthropic."Monte Cristo
"Some certain significance lurks in all things"Ishmael
"There is no quality in this world that is not what it is merely by contrast"Ishmael
"We are all Narcissus gazing at ourselves in the watery mirror"Ishmael
"What is the purpose of existence but to seek and to wonder"Ishmael
