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