Philosophy Quotes
Questions about meaning, existence, and truth from thinkers who spent their lives searching for answers.
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"To sleep perchance to dream. Ay, there's the rub."The Narrator (omniscient)
"Whatever exists without my knowledge exists without my consent."Judge Holden
"In the darkness all order is reversed. The darkness is absolute. It is the matrix and the Godhead and the glory of worlds."Judge Holden
"Nothing is offered that is not wanted. And desire is the lodestone."Judge Holden
"In the final analysis the universe itself is a kind of text and we are the readers."Judge Holden
"Whatever exists without my knowledge exists without my consent and therefore it does not truly exist at all."Judge Holden
"I reckon a conscience is a thing that don't seem to care no how it works."Huckleberry Finn
"Everything that exists in the world is one thing and another thing is the opposite"José Arcadio Buendía
"Every person carries within them a small universe that no one else can access"Gabriel García Márquez (Narrator)
"The past cannot be undone, only reimagined."Briony Tallis
"There is no man can make a covenant with."Judge Holden
"The world is everything that is the case."Judge Holden
"It was as if God had decided to test every capacity for surprise and was keeping the inhabitants of Macondo in a permanent alternation between doubt and revelation."Gabriel García Márquez (Narrator)
"The past was a snake."Pilar Ternera
"Fate does not allow those who dare to challenge it to rest."Melquiades
"One can resist the invasion of armies, but one cannot resist the invasion of ideas."Aureliano Buendía
"The consequence of this is that I'm always finding humans at their best and worst. I see their ugly and their beauty, and I wonder how the same thing can be both."Death
"I am haunted by humans."Death
"I am the bearer of the darkest news and yet the announcer of the brightest skies."Death
"The problem these days is that we're all expected to be completely consistent."Robbie Turner
"The universe is a system of which the greatest system of all is God, and the smallest system of all is the atom, and all systems are God."Judge Holden
"The world is everything that is the case. The great machine of the universe."Judge Holden
"He shrugged as if to say that the difference between disaster and revelation, between the miraculous and the commonplace, was only a matter of geography."Gabriel García Márquez (Narrator)
"The past was a material thing made of blocks that could be touched and examined in space."Gabriel García Márquez (Narrator)
"Remedios the Beauty had finally managed to achieve perfection through her absolute lack of understanding."Gabriel García Márquez (Narrator)
"The world must have been designed by a practical man, not an idealist."Gabriel García Márquez (Narrator)
"The consequence of this is that I'm always finding humans at their best and worst. I see their ugly and their beauty, and I wonder how the same thing can be both."Death
"I am haunted by humans."Death
"The quiet words of intruding thoughts."Death
"At that moment, death thought: how fascinating."Death