Philosophy Quotes

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

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"Suffering is the condition of life."
Shevek
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"We are all ghosts haunting our own lives."
Kris Kelvin
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"Consciousness is both our salvation and our curse."
Kris Kelvin
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"We are all strangers to ourselves."
Kris Kelvin
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"The universe is a dark forest, every civilization is a hunter or prey"
Thomas Wade
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"The stars are watching, judging, waiting"
Ye Wenjie
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"The universe cares nothing for our morality"
Thomas Wade
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"It is my belief, Watson, founded upon my experience, that the lowest and vilest alleys in London do not present a more dreadful record of sin than does the smiling and beautiful countryside."
Sherlock Holmes
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"The press, Watson, is a most valuable institution."
Sherlock Holmes
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"The criminal is the creation of the social conditions."
Sherlock Holmes
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"I have nothing to do today except to reflect upon the nature of evidence."
Sherlock Holmes
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"I understand now that intelligence is not a measure of worth."
Charlie Gordon
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"Every action has a consequence that echoes through time."
Spice-induced narrator/Paul's visions
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"The universe revolves not around individuals but around the forces that drive them."
Spice-induced narrator/Paul's visions
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"True journey is return to the actual present moment."
Shevek
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"The difference between the Actual and the Real"
Zarniwoop
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"I ache, therefore I am"
Marvin the Paranoid Android
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"Even robots have their moments of existential crisis"
Marvin the Paranoid Android
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"Every person has a motive if you look deep enough."
Hercule Poirot
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"To see beyond the veil of human limitation is both gift and curse."
Charlie Gordon
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"In the end, I had everything to understand and nothing to show for it."
Charlie Gordon
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"I existed in three states: ignorance, enlightenment, and loss."
Charlie Gordon
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"Ignorance would have been a mercy I was never offered."
Charlie Gordon
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"Humans are machines, yes, but machines created in the image of other machines—and the process was repeating."
Spice-induced narrator/Paul's visions
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"The test of any man's character is what he does when power lies within his grasp."
Spice-induced narrator/Paul's visions
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"Melange is life; without it, the universe would collapse."
Spice-induced narrator/Paul's visions
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"The wall that separates us divides not land but consciousness."
Shevek
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"What is the meaning of it all, Watson?"
Sherlock Holmes
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"I need hardly say that this is a most serious and delicate matter."
Dr. John Watson
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"When you have bred cattle for generations, you make a great bull. Not so with humans."
Baron Vladimir Harkonnen