Philosophy Quotes

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

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"What is one against the eternal and the unchanging?"
Judge Holden
J
"The world is an old whore and she will not be troubled further."
Judge Holden
J
"The world is surely round and people are wearing out their shoes walking around it."
José Arcadio Buendía
M
"The mysteries of existence are not solved by reasoning, but by living."
Melquiades
D
"I am constantly overestimating and underestimating the human race."
Death
D
"The consequence of this is that I'm always finding humans at their best and worst."
Death
D
"I am not violent by nature."
Death
D
"I am haunted by humans."
Death
D
"I have seen so much."
Death
M
"Every person contains universes."
Marie-Laure
F
"What does it matter if I am standing or sitting, if I am living in illusion?"
Florentino Ariza
J
"Every act a man undertakes commits him to a judgment of himself."
Judge Holden
J
"Nothing is true. Everything is permitted."
Judge Holden
J
"All blood flows to a common sea."
Judge Holden
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
"Some people refute small things."
Death
L
"Sometimes I really believe I am dead and in heaven, though it could just as easily be hell."
Liesel Meminger
J
"There is no such thing as a chance encounter."
Judge Holden
J
"The world does not change, only our perception of it."
Judge Holden
J
"The only real thing is that I exist."
José Arcadio Buendía
J
"Whatever in creation exists without my knowledge exists without my consent"
Judge Holden
J
"The world is everything that is the case"
Judge Holden
C
"It's not about being good or bad."
Connell Waldron
M
"Nothing really matters in the end."
Marianne Sheridan
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 constantly overestimating and underestimating the human race."
Death
D
"How strange it is to be human."
Death
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)