Philosophy Quotes

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

43879 quotes

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