Philosophy Quotes

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

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"That's just the way things go."
Huckleberry Finn
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"Being alive is the most important work you can do."
Shug Avery
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"Hear me, he said. There is no such thing as accidents"
Judge Holden
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"Children of a higher order"
Judge Holden
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"All order is derived from the heavens"
Judge Holden
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"The world in which I find myself is without rhyme or reason, a senseless place."
The Invisible Man (Narrator)
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"Identity is something yet to be achieved."
The Invisible Man (Narrator)
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"The ground beneath our feet is not as solid as we believe."
The Invisible Man (Narrator)
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"I am both observer and participant in this world."
The Invisible Man (Narrator)
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"Being invisible provides a sort of spiritual immunity, a feeling of not existing."
The Invisible Man (Narrator)
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"I learned that one's philosophy is not best expressed in words; it is expressed in the choices one makes."
The Invisible Man (Narrator)
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"Humanity is a passing phase."
The Commander
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"People dont like to be read to. They like to talk."
Judge Holden
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"I have not come among you to tell you anything of value."
Judge Holden
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"What is life but a succession of moments, and what is memory but a faulty record thereof?"
Judge Holden
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"Humanity is not interested in comfort."
The Invisible Man (Narrator)
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"I think in circles."
The Invisible Man (Narrator)
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"The thing is, what happens if you're someone else's dream?"
Tommy
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"You are a thing of this world only but you give no evidence that you have a thing in you."
Judge Holden
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"In life there is no contingency. There is only the structure of the world."
Judge Holden
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"Everything in the universe is traveling in some direction."
Judge Holden
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"The world in which I lived was without substance, a dream."
The Invisible Man (Narrator)
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"Perhaps that is our greatest tragedy."
The Invisible Man (Narrator)
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"My invisibility, understand, means the outer world takes no cognizance of it."
The Invisible Man (Narrator)
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"I was born in the darkness of the womb of the world."
The Invisible Man (Narrator)
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"The reality of experience is not important."
Rinehart
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"The pattern of social organization is chaos."
The Invisible Man (Narrator)
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"The eyes of others are upon me."
The Invisible Man (Narrator)
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"I don't think humans are aware of all the time."
Tommy
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"Nobody can tell what you are going to do."
Huckleberry Finn