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