Philosophy Quotes

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

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"What does it mean to exist when no one acknowledges your existence?"
The Invisible Man (Narrator)
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"We are all connected in this life."
Nettie
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"Whatever exists without my knowledge exists without my consent."
Judge Holden
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"What evil exists is not in the world but in the hearts of men."
Judge Holden
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"I wonder whether they enjoy it. I think about that sometimes."
Offred
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"We were a society dying, said Moira, of too much choice."
Moira
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"The distance between here and there is also a distance in time."
Offred
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"That's the way it always is with a raft."
Huckleberry Finn
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"Human nature is wicked."
The King
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"Surely it is not improper for a butler to indulge in a little conjecture."
Stevens
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"I have long considered myself to have little interest in such matters."
Stevens
S
"One must not become sentimental about the past."
Stevens
J
"Whatever exists without my knowledge exists without my consent."
Judge Holden
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"All things of this world are subject to corruption and decay."
Judge Holden
J
"All order is the order of chaos."
Judge Holden
J
"All things are appointed and nothing is random."
Judge Holden
J
"A man is just a woman who has gone to seed."
Janine
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"What it mean to be joyful?"
Celie
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"Language itself can be a form of imprisonment."
The Invisible Man (Narrator)
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"The distance between intention and consequence is often immeasurable."
The Invisible Man (Narrator)
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"The world moves on, indifferent to individual suffering."
The Invisible Man (Narrator)
T
"Light and darkness are not absolute, but relative."
The Invisible Man (Narrator)
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"It is a curious thing to contemplate one's life in retrospect."
Stevens
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"I find myself contemplating paths not taken."
Stevens
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"Men are made in the image of God. But a man is something other than an image."
Judge Holden
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"The world is everything that is the case and nothing more."
Judge Holden
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"What did they think I was, a machine?"
The Invisible Man (Narrator)
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"The mind that believes absurdities will commit atrocities."
The Invisible Man (Narrator)
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"Society was a machine."
The Invisible Man (Narrator)
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"I don't take no stock in dead people."
Huckleberry Finn