Philosophy Quotes

Questions about meaning, existence, and truth from thinkers who spent their lives searching for answers.

43879 quotes

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