Philosophy Quotes

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

43879 quotes

T
"To sleep perchance to dream. Ay, there's the rub."
The Narrator (omniscient)
J
"Whatever exists without my knowledge exists without my consent."
Judge Holden
J
"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
J
"Nothing is offered that is not wanted. And desire is the lodestone."
Judge Holden
J
"In the final analysis the universe itself is a kind of text and we are the readers."
Judge Holden
J
"Whatever exists without my knowledge exists without my consent and therefore it does not truly exist at all."
Judge Holden
H
"I reckon a conscience is a thing that don't seem to care no how it works."
Huckleberry Finn
J
"Everything that exists in the world is one thing and another thing is the opposite"
José Arcadio Buendía
G
"Every person carries within them a small universe that no one else can access"
Gabriel García Márquez (Narrator)
B
"The past cannot be undone, only reimagined."
Briony Tallis
J
"There is no man can make a covenant with."
Judge Holden
J
"The world is everything that is the case."
Judge Holden
G
"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)
P
"The past was a snake."
Pilar Ternera
M
"Fate does not allow those who dare to challenge it to rest."
Melquiades
A
"One can resist the invasion of armies, but one cannot resist the invasion of ideas."
Aureliano Buendía
D
"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
D
"I am haunted by humans."
Death
D
"I am the bearer of the darkest news and yet the announcer of the brightest skies."
Death
R
"The problem these days is that we're all expected to be completely consistent."
Robbie Turner
J
"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
J
"The world is everything that is the case. The great machine of the universe."
Judge Holden
G
"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)
G
"The past was a material thing made of blocks that could be touched and examined in space."
Gabriel García Márquez (Narrator)
G
"Remedios the Beauty had finally managed to achieve perfection through her absolute lack of understanding."
Gabriel García Márquez (Narrator)
G
"The world must have been designed by a practical man, not an idealist."
Gabriel García Márquez (Narrator)
D
"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
D
"I am haunted by humans."
Death
D
"The quiet words of intruding thoughts."
Death
D
"At that moment, death thought: how fascinating."
Death