Philosophy Quotes
Questions about meaning, existence, and truth from thinkers who spent their lives searching for answers.
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"Nothing that exists is indispensable."Colonel Aureliano Buendía
"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)
"Every choice you make is a choice you didn't make."Mrs. Elm
"Every version of yourself exists in this library."Mrs. Elm
"The life you didn't live is less real than the one you did."Mrs. Elm
"Every life is infinite in its complexity."Mrs. Elm
"The world is everything that is the case and all else is speculation."Judge Holden
"The things of this world have no order but only accident and chance."Judge Holden
"He said that men were nothing and that all their works would come to nothing."Judge Holden
"Humanity has a tendency to believe that the future is infinite and the past is finite"Gabriel García Márquez (Narrator)
"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)
"Numbers conspire. All things do."Judge Holden
"The world cannot be said to have order and to have possibility at the same time."Judge Holden
"The machinery of the world is driven by things we do not understand."Judge Holden
"What is a woman when she has been taken from everything?"Circe
"Power without humanity is just cruelty."Circe
"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)
"The manuscripts were a mirror in which the town could see its own reflection."Gabriel García Márquez (Narrator)
"Maps do not make men."Judge Holden
"He was a man divided against himself."Javert
"Whatever exists without my knowledge exists without my consent."Judge Holden
"There is something inherent in the nature of things."Judge Holden
"The world isn't split into good people and Death Eaters."Sirius Black
"Darkness dwells within us all."Albus Dumbledore
"Men are born for games. Nothing else"Judge Holden
"To the well-organized mind, death is but the next great adventure."Albus Dumbledore
"The world is everything that is the case"Judge Holden
"What is your wager, pilgrim"Judge Holden
"Whatever exists without my knowledge exists without my consent."Judge Holden
"Everything that is is the flower of being."Judge Holden