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