Philosophy Quotes

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

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"We're all crazy people, living in a crazy world."
Yossarian
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"Philosophy teaches us how to live, not merely how to think"
Pierre Bezukhov
C
"The Acutes aren't really nuts. They're just where they landed when they got tired of the outside."
Chief Bromden
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"Beauty is mysterious as well as terrible. God and the devil are fighting there, and the battlefield is the heart of man"
Dmitri Karamazov
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"I am not rebelling against my maker; I am only not accepting His creation"
Ivan Karamazov
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"That's some catch, that Catch-22."
Yossarian
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"Everyone has a share in the world."
Milo Minderbinder
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"Man is a creature who cannot live without ideals"
Pierre Bezukhov
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"The greatest happiness principle is all that matters."
Mustapha Mond
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"The Party does not concern itself with the overt act. Our concern is with thought."
O'Brien
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"Memory must be the seat of the soul. In animals there is memory but no recollection."
Winston Smith
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"Insanity is the only sane response to an insane world."
Yossarian
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"Philosophy is the search for truth through reason."
Pierre Bezukhov
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"What's crazy? Who decides that?"
Randle McMurphy
D
"The human soul is capable of both great cruelty and great compassion"
Dmitri Karamazov
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"The greatest tragedy is not suffering, but meaningless suffering"
Ivan Karamazov
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"Evil is often committed by those who believe they are doing good"
Ivan Karamazov
O
"The proles are not human beings."
O'Brien
P
"Life is everything. Life is God. Everything changes and moves and that movement is God."
Pierre Bezukhov
P
"Eternity is a grand concept."
Pierre Bezukhov
M
"You can't have a lasting civilization without plenty of pleasant vices"
Mustapha Mond
C
"We all have our own asylums inside our heads."
Chief Bromden
C
"The wall between sane and insane is thinner than we think."
Chief Bromden
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"The mind is a strange country; some of us never leave it."
Billy Bibbit
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"I think the devil doesn't exist, but man has created him; he has created him in his own image and likeness"
Ivan Karamazov
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"The problem of evil cannot be solved by reason alone"
Ivan Karamazov
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"The Universe doesn't care"
Tralfamadorian
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"All moments, past, present and future, always have existed, always will exist"
Tralfamadorian
P
"We are all prisoners of our own nature."
Pierre Bezukhov
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"Nothing exists except through human consciousness."
O'Brien