Philosophy Quotes

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

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"The Galaxy must eventually stabilize under a unified rule"
Hari Seldon
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"Ninjas are professions that require intelligence"
Hiro Protagonist
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"Samurai are the ultimate professionals"
Hiro Protagonist
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"How could you trust something that could become the opposite sex at any moment?"
Genly Ai
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"We are all aliens to one another."
Genly Ai
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"They are neither men nor women; they are people."
Genly Ai
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"Gender is a small thing compared to survival."
Estraven
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"Gravity wells and empty space have taught us that the universe bends to will."
Thufir Hawat
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"Every man carries the seeds of his own destruction."
Spice-induced narrator/Paul's visions
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"Existence itself is a test we did not choose."
Spice-induced narrator/Paul's visions
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"This is rather as if you imagine a puddle waking up one morning and thinking, 'This is an interesting world I find myself in'."
Douglas Adams
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"One of the most important things to remember about human nature is that human beings are stupid."
Zarniwoop
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"What separates a man from a woman may be less than what separates a man from himself."
Genly Ai
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"Any road followed precisely to its end leads precisely nowhere."
Spice-induced narrator/Paul's visions
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"The mystery of life isn't a problem to solve, but a reality to experience."
Spice-induced narrator/Paul's visions
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"Religion is the emotive power of civilization."
Spice-induced narrator/Paul's visions
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"There is in all things a pattern that is part of our universe."
Spice-induced narrator/Paul's visions
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"The only thing that makes sense is to strive for greater consciousness and to fight for a world in which the maximum degree of freedom expresses itself."
Ender Wiggin
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"In the game, he was not constrained by moral law."
Orson Scott Card (Narrator)
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"The human race is unique in its ability to betray itself."
Orson Scott Card (Narrator)
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"Some men are born to rule, others to serve."
Davos Seaworth
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"A person is smart. People are dumb"
Salvor Hardin
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"What is this need to fabricate meaning where none exists?"
Kris Kelvin
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"We are condemned to seek what we cannot comprehend."
Kris Kelvin
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"Think you of the fact that a deaf [person] cannot hear. Then, what deafness may we not all possess? What senses do we lack that we cannot imagine?"
Baron Vladimir Harkonnen
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"The religious mind of man has always been his greatest weakness and his greatest strength"
Salvor Hardin
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"The mind of man is his true frontier, not the stars themselves"
Salvor Hardin
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"The gods judge us by our actions, not our intentions"
Stannis Baratheon
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"We are all slaves to something—duty, love, or fear"
Catelyn Stark
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"In the end, we are all responsible for the choices we make"
Tyrion Lannister