Philosophy Quotes
Questions about meaning, existence, and truth from thinkers who spent their lives searching for answers.
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"The mind is everything. What you think, you become."Leo Tolstoy (Narrator)
"Why dost thou smile so at me"Hester Prynne
"The pursuit of perfection is noble but impossible."Don Quixote
"If man has no God, he must create meaning for himself."Ivan Karamazov
"Everything is lawful if nothing is forbidden by God."Raskolnikov
"Do you believe in fate?"Edmond Dantès
"The world is indifferent to our longings."Gustave Flaubert (Narrator)
"Her story is the story of a soul that would not accept its fate."Gustave Flaubert (Narrator)
"She was the embodiment of a generation's disillusionment with life itself."Gustave Flaubert (Narrator)
"I am a sick man... I am a spiteful man"Raskolnikov
"The more I love humanity in general, the less I love man in particular"Raskolnikov
"What is to be done now? That is the question"Raskolnikov
"We are all monsters, but the monsters are useful"Raskolnikov
"There is no better or worse; there is only different"Porfiry Petrovich
"I made an error in arithmetic, not in reasoning"Raskolnikov
"The human soul is an abyss of contradictions"Raskolnikov
"I am not mad; I am simply awake to the horror of existence"Raskolnikov
"The philosopher seeks truth in all things"Don Quixote
"I am a sick man... I am a spiteful man. I am an unattractive man."Raskolnikov
"The more I know of mankind, the less I love them."Raskolnikov
"All is permitted to the extraordinary man."Raskolnikov
"The dead speak only through the living."Monte Cristo
"Illusion is the queen of the human heart."Gustave Flaubert (Narrator)
"All women are like that."Charles Bovary
"The heart refuses to accept what the mind rejects."Gustave Flaubert (Narrator)
"The present is always unbearable; the past is always regretted; the future is always feared."Gustave Flaubert (Narrator)
"The more I love humanity in general, the less I love man in particular."Ivan Karamazov
"I am unhappy precisely because I cannot be content with anything metaphysical."Ivan Karamazov
"I am a realist, but not a scientific realist."Ivan Karamazov
"I am not convinced that I made an error in my theory"Raskolnikov