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