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