Philosophy Quotes

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

43879 quotes

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