Philosophy Quotes

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

43879 quotes

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"All things are one and the same thing."
The Alchemist
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"The wise men of the desert know that a man has to live like other men."
The Alchemist
J
"I have lived a long life."
Justice Wargrave
A
"Logic cannot explain everything."
Armstrong
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"The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation."
Henry David Thoreau
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"I have learned that the swiftest traveller is he that goes afoot."
Henry David Thoreau
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"The universe is not only queerer than we suppose, but queerer than we can suppose."
Henry David Thoreau
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"All things are moral; and in their boundless changes have an unceasing reference to spiritual nature."
Henry David Thoreau
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"The price of anything is the amount of life you exchange for it."
Henry David Thoreau
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"I teach you the Übermensch. Man is something that shall be overcome."
Zarathustra
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"Dead are all the gods: now we desire the Übermensch to live."
Zarathustra
Z
"Man is something that must be overcome."
Zarathustra
Z
"Become who you are."
Zarathustra
Z
"The secret of life is to live without a goal."
Zarathustra
Z
"I teach you the eternal return of all things."
Zarathustra
Z
"The earth has become small, and on it hops the last man."
Zarathustra
Z
"What is great in man is that he is a bridge and not an end."
Zarathustra
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"All of this is a single book, the same book, just repeated many times"
Fatima
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"Who in the world am I? Ah, that's the great puzzle."
Alice
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"The question is whether you can make words mean so many different things."
Alice
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"If it was so, it might be; and if it were so, it would be; but as it isn't, it ain't. That's logic."
Tweedledee and Tweedledum
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"Contrariwise, if it was so, it might be."
Tweedledee and Tweedledum
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"The secret is here in the present moment"
The Alchemist
T
"God does not populate the world with queers and fools"
The Alchemist
T
"The Soul of the World is contained within each person"
The Alchemist
T
"The only way to understand the world is to know the Soul of the World"
The Alchemist
Z
"I teach you the Übermensch. Man is something that shall be overcome."
Zarathustra
Z
"Dead are all the gods: now we desire the Übermensch to live."
Zarathustra
Z
"What is great in man is that he is a bridge and not an end."
Zarathustra
Z
"You have made your way from worm to man, and much in you is still worm."
Zarathustra