Philosophy Quotes
Questions about meaning, existence, and truth from thinkers who spent their lives searching for answers.
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"What makes man act, what makes him move at all?"Raskolnikov
"Crime is a kind of madness in superior natures"Raskolnikov
"What is hell but the loss of human connection?"Raskolnikov
"I have seen into the abyss of human nature"Raskolnikov
"The greatest crime is to deny one's own humanity"Raskolnikov
"It's easy to think about things."Scout Finch
"There is no such thing as reality beyond perception."Abbé Faria
"Every external event is made up of internal conditions."Abbé Faria
"The bond of marriage is nothing but a form of slavery."Caderousse
"Desperation makes philosophers of us all, briefly"Gustave Flaubert (Narrator)
"The mind creates prisons more terrible than any real cell"Gustave Flaubert (Narrator)
"Civilization's going to pieces."Tom Buchanan
"Conduct may be founded on the hard rock or the wet marshes, but after a certain point I don't care what it's founded on."Nick Carraway
"The absolute is unattainable, but we must strive for it."Ivan Karamazov
"She had sought infinity in the finite world"Gustave Flaubert (Narrator)
"I am a sick man. I am a spiteful man."Raskolnikov
"I think the devil doesn't exist, but man has created him in his own image and likeness."Raskolnikov
"I am tormented by the questions that I cannot answer."Raskolnikov
"I cannot live without knowing why I live."Raskolnikov
"I have murdered not a man, but an idea."Raskolnikov
"Man cannot change events but only his attitude toward them."Pierre Bezukhov
"I am a sick man... I am a spiteful man"Raskolnikov
"The good in this world far outweighs the evil."Abbé Faria
"I am a sick man... I am a spiteful man."Raskolnikov
"What is to be done now?"Raskolnikov
"If there is no God, then everything is permitted."Ivan Karamazov
"People are not born for happiness."Natasha Rostova
"What difference does it make? All is vanity."Gustave Flaubert (Narrator)
"Virtue is merely the invention of the weak."Gustave Flaubert (Narrator)
"The heart is a rebel against the mind's authority."Gustave Flaubert (Narrator)