Philosophy Quotes
Questions about meaning, existence, and truth from thinkers who spent their lives searching for answers.
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"Pleasure and pain are both illusions of the seeking mind."Siddhartha
"I teach you the Übermensch. Man is something that is to be surpassed."Zarathustra
"Dead are all the gods: now do we desire the Übermensch to live."Zarathustra
"One world at a time."Henry David Thoreau
"Our whole life is startlingly moral. There is never an instant's truce between virtue and vice."Henry David Thoreau
"Reality is as vivid and as bright as a dream, and yet I seem to live in a dream."Henry David Thoreau
"All grown-ups were children once, but only few of them remember it."The Narrator (Pilot)
"To understand one's heart is to understand the world."The Narrator (Pilot)
"Everything in the universe is inevitably part of a unity."The Alchemist
"Every person on Earth plays a vital role in the completion of the universe."The Alchemist
"All grown-ups were once children, although few of them remember it."The Narrator (Pilot)
"The mind is everything. What we think we become."Seneca
"The good man will use reason and will listen to it as it prompts him."Seneca
"To be always occupied and to have no time for philosophy—this is a tragedy."Seneca
"One cannot escape one's nature"Justice Wargrave
"The past cannot be changed, only faced"Justice Wargrave
"Each man has his own dharma."Govinda
"In each person, I see the face of eternity."Siddhartha
"In the end, the seeker and the sought become one."Siddhartha
"The Soul of the World is nourished by people's happiness."The Alchemist
"We are not merely prisoners of circumstance, but prisoners of ourselves."Justice Wargrave
"I teach you the Übermensch. Man is something that is to be surpassed."Zarathustra
"Dead are all the gods: now do we desire the Übermensch to live."Zarathustra
"Man is a rope stretched between the animal and the Übermensch—a rope over an abyss."Zarathustra
"How should there be eternal life for that which is not eternal!"Zarathustra
"The greatest wealth is poverty of desires."Seneca
"No one can live happily who looks only to himself and turns everything to his own advantage."Seneca
"Those who wish to be wiser than others are usually fools."Seneca
"The good life is a process, not a state of being."Seneca
"The wise men understood that this natural world is only an image and a copy of paradise."The Alchemist