Philosophy Quotes

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

43879 quotes

C
"Nothing that exists is indispensable."
Colonel Aureliano Buendía
G
"There is always something about the appearance of a face that leaves one sad—a harsh thing in the light, perhaps, or its mere structure, or the usual expressions."
Gabriel García Márquez (Narrator)
M
"Every choice you make is a choice you didn't make."
Mrs. Elm
M
"Every version of yourself exists in this library."
Mrs. Elm
M
"The life you didn't live is less real than the one you did."
Mrs. Elm
M
"Every life is infinite in its complexity."
Mrs. Elm
J
"The world is everything that is the case and all else is speculation."
Judge Holden
J
"The things of this world have no order but only accident and chance."
Judge Holden
J
"He said that men were nothing and that all their works would come to nothing."
Judge Holden
G
"Humanity has a tendency to believe that the future is infinite and the past is finite"
Gabriel García Márquez (Narrator)
G
"It was as if God had decided to test every capacity for surprise and was keeping the inhabitants of Macondo in a permanent alteration between doubt and revelation, doubt and revelation."
Gabriel García Márquez (Narrator)
J
"Numbers conspire. All things do."
Judge Holden
J
"The world cannot be said to have order and to have possibility at the same time."
Judge Holden
J
"The machinery of the world is driven by things we do not understand."
Judge Holden
C
"What is a woman when she has been taken from everything?"
Circe
C
"Power without humanity is just cruelty."
Circe
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
"The manuscripts were a mirror in which the town could see its own reflection."
Gabriel García Márquez (Narrator)
J
"Maps do not make men."
Judge Holden
J
"He was a man divided against himself."
Javert
J
"Whatever exists without my knowledge exists without my consent."
Judge Holden
J
"There is something inherent in the nature of things."
Judge Holden
S
"The world isn't split into good people and Death Eaters."
Sirius Black
A
"Darkness dwells within us all."
Albus Dumbledore
J
"Men are born for games. Nothing else"
Judge Holden
A
"To the well-organized mind, death is but the next great adventure."
Albus Dumbledore
J
"The world is everything that is the case"
Judge Holden
J
"What is your wager, pilgrim"
Judge Holden
J
"Whatever exists without my knowledge exists without my consent."
Judge Holden
J
"Everything that is is the flower of being."
Judge Holden