Philosophy Quotes
Questions about meaning, existence, and truth from thinkers who spent their lives searching for answers.
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"What a mess, thought death, of the human heart."Death
"The repetition of names revealed patterns in the fabric of destiny."Gabriel García Márquez (Narrator)
"The town existed in a state of perpetual emergence from nothing."Gabriel García Márquez (Narrator)
"What is the most important thing you could do?"Werner
"People are basically decent, but there are a lot of them."Ove
"A proper functioning society is built on people doing their duty."Ove
"It was as if God had decided to put to the test every capacity for surprise and was keeping the inhabitants of Macondo in a permanent alternation between doubt and revelation."Gabriel García Márquez (Narrator)
"We cannot escape our nature any more than we can escape the circle of Macondo."Gabriel García Márquez (Narrator)
"We repeat the same patterns until they become the foundation of our world."Gabriel García Márquez (Narrator)
"The wheel turns, but we remain fixed in the center of our own universe."Gabriel García Márquez (Narrator)
"Whatever exists without my knowledge exists without my consent."Judge Holden
"There is no such thing as fate."Judge Holden
"To order knowledge by categories is to falsify it."Judge Holden
"Nature is not a garden but a wilderness."Judge Holden
"I am haunted by humans."Death
"We live in the spaces between what was and what will be"Marie-Laure
"Everything was written to be forgotten."Gabriel García Márquez (Narrator)
"The ghosts of the past walked freely through the town."Gabriel García Márquez (Narrator)
"The town existed in a state between reality and fiction."Gabriel García Márquez (Narrator)
"The consequence of this is that I'm always finding humans at their best and worst."Death
"I am haunted by humans."Death
"The human heart is a line."Death
"What you own ends up owning you."Ove
"The universe is a rather strange place"Judge Holden
"The world was magical and mechanical at the same time."Gabriel García Márquez (Narrator)
"Death has a surprising relationship with color."Death
"I am haunted by humans."Death
"The world is everything that is the case"Judge Holden
"In the book of all that ever was"Judge Holden
"All violence is a form of communication"Judge Holden