Philosophy Quotes

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

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"In the eyes of God all souls are equal. But God has no eyes."
Judge Holden
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"There's some food for thought there."
Sirius Black
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"Of course it is happening inside your head, Harry, but why on earth should that mean that it is not real?"
Albus Dumbledore
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"Greatness inspires envy, envy engenders spite, spite spawns hate, and hate generates ruin."
Albus Dumbledore
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"I am not concerned with pleasure or pain, but with the nature of the soul."
Albus Dumbledore
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"All dwarfs may be bastards, yet not all bastards are dwarfs."
Tyrion Lannister
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"The iron price and the gold price."
Theon Greyjoy
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"The past shapes who we become."
Theon Greyjoy
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"Is it not curious how the human spirit does not always travel with the human body."
Albus Dumbledore
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"The soul is never truly destroyed; it lives on in memory."
Albus Dumbledore
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"The past haunts us only if we allow it to."
Sirius Black
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"The god of wine and the god of chaos are the same"
Tyrion Lannister
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"We all have both light and dark inside us."
Albus Dumbledore
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"You will find that not all wizards choose to be good."
Albus Dumbledore
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"There is a galley-slave in the depths of every heart."
Jean Valjean
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"I drink, therefore I am."
Tyrion Lannister
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"The choice between two evils is no choice at all."
Stannis Baratheon
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"What is the difference between a king and his beggar?"
Theon Greyjoy
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"I've been thinking about what makes someone truly noble."
Dalinar Kholin
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"A man can convince himself of anything."
Dalinar Kholin
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"Cynicism is just disappointed idealism"
Kvothe
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"To find the beginning of infinity, one must first understand the middle"
Elodin
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"The search for truth is more important than the truth itself"
Elodin
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"I am an accident of fate."
Jean Valjean
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"Pattern is nothing. Pattern is everything."
Shallan Davar
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"The world isn't split into good people and Death Eaters. We've all got both light and dark inside us."
Sirius Black
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"The past shapes us, but does not define us."
Sirius Black
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"Evil is not born, it is created."
Albus Dumbledore
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"We are shaped by the choices we make, not the circumstances we're born into."
Jasnah Kholin
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"My name is no one."
Arya Stark