Philosophy Quotes

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

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"Man serves the interests of no creature except himself"
Old Major
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"Man is the only creature that consumes without producing."
Old Major
J
"The universe is a closed thing and wholly determinate"
Judge Holden
H
"I don't take no stock in dead people."
Huckleberry Finn
A
"If the rule you followed led you to this, of what use was the rule?"
Anton Chigurh
A
"The past don't matter none."
Anton Chigurh
J
"Whatever exists without my knowledge exists without my consent."
Judge Holden
A
"You think you're different, but you ain't."
Anton Chigurh
A
"Nothing you do matters in the end."
Anton Chigurh
O
"Man is the only creature that consumes without producing"
Old Major
P
"To choose doubt as a philosophy of life is akin to choosing immobility as a means of transportation."
Pi Patel
C
"The more I wonder... maybe it don't matter. Maybe it do."
Celie
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"Life demands an explanation."
Pi Patel
P
"Whatever a man owns, he owns it; and a man's got a right to say what he'll do with his own."
Pap Finn
J
"There is no such thing as a rational man."
Judge Holden
A
"You're looking at it wrong"
Anton Chigurh
S
"I seen things that made me question everything"
Sheriff Bell
T
"Everything is a joke, an obscenity, a saddening reminder."
The Invisible Man (Narrator)
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"Sometimes it's a good thing to be invisible."
The Invisible Man (Narrator)
T
"It's all meaningless."
The Invisible Man (Narrator)
P
"The only real difference between man and animal is that man claims a distinction."
Pi Patel
C
"I wonder what God had in mind."
Celie
J
"You think that because you were born you have a right to this place in the world. You're mistaken. This world is cattle."
Judge Holden
J
"I have a taste for the transcendent"
Judge Holden
J
"Everything that exists without the judge's awareness does not exist at all"
Judge Holden
J
"There are things in this world that God did not create"
Judge Holden
P
"Practical atheism, which is the basis of every modern society."
Pi Patel
J
"Whatever exists without my knowledge exists without my consent."
Judge Holden
J
"Men are born for games. Nothing else."
Judge Holden
O
"Better never means better for everyone, it always means worse for some."
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