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