Philosophy Quotes
Questions about meaning, existence, and truth from thinkers who spent their lives searching for answers.
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"What is hell? It is oneself."Javert
"I believe in nothing, and I am satisfied."Monte Cristo
"I am not what I appear to be; I am far deeper than that."Monte Cristo
"One can't live only by reason alone."Levin
"I am not mad; I am perfectly sane. It is society that is mad."Raskolnikov
"All suffering is inflicted by man, not by nature."Raskolnikov
"Debauchery is not a sin, it is a beautiful thing."Raskolnikov
"Man is the measure of all things."Raskolnikov
"We are all broken vessels seeking wholeness."Sonya
"What seems madness to the world may be the truest wisdom to those who understand."Don Quixote
"What is madness but the inability to accept the world as it truly is?"Sancho Panza
"Everything in the world is relative, everything!"Pierre Bezukhov
"Everything that is said to be done by fate is said to be done by necessity."Leo Tolstoy (Narrator)
"The only absolute knowledge attainable by us is that life is meaningless."Levin
"His whole system is poisoned. All that sophistical philosophy does not remove."Roger Chillingworth
"Every man is as God made him, and often much worse."Sancho Panza
"A man may be a great knight and yet a very foolish gentleman."Sancho Panza
"Every man believes his own folly to be wisdom."Sancho Panza
"Pride comes before the fall, as surely as night follows day."Sancho Panza
"I am a sick man... I am a spiteful man."Raskolnikov
"All men are drowning in an abyss of uncertainty."Raskolnikov
"Death is but a doorway to understanding."Abbé Faria
"The heart knows truths the mind cannot comprehend."Haydée
"Life is everything. Life is God."Levin
"If we admit that human life can be ruled by reason, then all possibility of life is destroyed."Levin
"We live in succession; in division, in parts, in particles. Meantime within man is the soul of the whole."Levin
"I am a sick man... I am a spiteful man"Raskolnikov
"We are all responsible for everyone and everything"Raskolnikov
"All is permitted to the extraordinary man"Raskolnikov
"The world is divided between the weak and the strong"Raskolnikov