Philosophy Quotes

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

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"I want to understand what it means to be human before I forget how to be one"
Charlie Gordon
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"Perhaps I always was the experiment, just not the kind anyone expected"
Charlie Gordon
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"Resistance to the inevitable is useless"
Zarniwoop
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"The wall stands because we believe in it"
Shevek
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"The journey matters more than the destination"
Shevek
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"Humans are almost always mad."
Spice-induced narrator/Paul's visions
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"The idea of true journey is return to the origin."
Shevek
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"We are prisoners of our own choices."
Takver
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"What object is served by this circle of misery?"
Sherlock Holmes
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"The hound is but a tool in the hands of men."
Sherlock Holmes
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"Every human contains multitudes."
Paul Atreides
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"We are all murderers in our hearts."
Justice Wargrave
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"A man is not a liar merely because he betrays a secret."
Sherlock Holmes
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"A man's character is revealed in his actions."
Sherlock Holmes
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"The gift must move. It must circulate, or the world dies"
Shevek
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"Language shapes thought, and thought shapes society"
Shevek
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"Philosophy without action is merely entertainment"
Shevek
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"The heart understands what the mind cannot explain."
Charlie Gordon
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"Every rise must have a corresponding fall—that's the nature of the universe."
Charlie Gordon
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"I understand now that every gain demands an equal sacrifice."
Charlie Gordon
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"In the end, we are all Algernon, running in circles."
Charlie Gordon
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"Fate has placed us here together."
Justice Wargrave
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"There's something disturbing about recalling a warm smell, a sort of truncated empathy."
Nick Dunne
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"Possession poisons the spirit"
Odo
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"The individual must serve the whole"
Shevek
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"We cannot escape our origins"
Shevek
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"In an infinite universe, the idea that divine intervention is necessary seems, well, redundant."
Zarniwoop
J
"Isolation reveals the truth in men"
Justice Wargrave
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"One cannot escape one's nature"
Vera Claythorne
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"You appear to be a man of some philosophical turn of mind."
Dr. John Watson