Philosophy Quotes
Questions about meaning, existence, and truth from thinkers who spent their lives searching for answers.
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"The Combine is the world."Chief Bromden
"The questions remain unanswered."Chief Bromden
"I am tormented by eternal questions"Ivan Karamazov
"I hate purity. I hate goodness. I want everyone to be corrupt to the bones."Julia
"Everything fades into mist. Your body is gone, but you still exist."O'Brien
"The mind is the only real prison."Chief Bromden
"The human soul cannot help but seek meaning in existence."Pierre Bezukhov
"Reality is inside the skull. Nothing exists except through human consciousness."O'Brien
"Misery is the produce of vice."Javert
"Pity is a rebellion against nature."Javert
"All moments, past, present and future, always have existed, always will exist."Tralfamadorian
"Beauty is mysterious as well as terrible. God and the devil are fighting there, and the battlefield is the heart of man."Dmitri Karamazov
"People speak sometimes about the 'bestial' cruelty of man, but that is terribly unjust to beasts."Ivan Karamazov
"The more you love humanity in general, the less you love individual human beings."Ivan Karamazov
"There is no greater torment than the consciousness of wrongdoing."Ivan Karamazov
"Man desires harmony; but he also desires chaos."Ivan Karamazov
"I'm glad I'm not you."John the Savage
"Progress requires the absence of choice."Mustapha Mond
"That's some catch, that Catch-22. It's the best there is."Yossarian
"The only good is power and the only evil is weakness."O'Brien
"The more advanced the society, the more unhappy it becomes"Ivan Karamazov
"True civilization does not lie in gas pipes"Ivan Karamazov
"Doubt is the torture of the thinking man"Ivan Karamazov
"The madness of man creates his own reality"Dmitri Karamazov
"Man cannot alter the general course of events; he can only cooperate with them"Pierre Bezukhov
"The universe operates according to laws we can only dimly perceive"Pierre Bezukhov
"Every person contains multitudes within themselves"Pierre Bezukhov
"Pleasure is the only thing worth living for."Lenina Crowne
"Philosophy is for those with time to waste."Milo Minderbinder
"The unexamined life is not worth living, but the examined life is unbearable"Ivan Karamazov