Philosophy Quotes
Questions about meaning, existence, and truth from thinkers who spent their lives searching for answers.
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"It's no use going back to yesterday, because as I was then I was a different person."Alice
"You may not see it now, said the King, but you will understand shortly that the most important thing is the journey itself, not the arrival."King Azaz
"Meaning comes not from what things are, but from what they represent."Tock
"It is not whether things are true that matters, but whether they are believed."The Humbug
"Who in the world am I? Ah, that's the great puzzle."Alice
"Do cats eat bats? Do cats eat bats?"Alice
"Who in the world am I? Ah, that's the great puzzle."Alice
"I used to believe in forever, but forever is too long."Eeyore
"The question is whether you can make words mean so many different things."Humpty Dumpty
"Contrariwise, if it was so, it might be; and if it were so, it would be."Tweedledee and Tweedledum
"How do you know I'm mad?"Cheshire Cat
"I am not mad; I am eccentric."Mad Hatter
"Expect everything, I always say, and the unexpected never happens."The Humbug
"There's always a reason for everything."Milo
"The body is the prison house of the soul."Anne Shirley
"The more there is of mine, the less there is of yours"Tweedledee and Tweedledum
"Who in the world am I? Ah, that's the great puzzle."Alice
"There is much more than just one side to any question."King Azaz
"I'm not sure if I'm a monster or if I'm just human."Ponyboy Curtis
"Do you ever get the feeling nothing is real?"Johnny Cade
"It makes no difference whether you arrive at the right place at the wrong time or the wrong place at the right time."The Humbug
"Have you ever stopped to think, and forgotten to start again?"Winnie-the-Pooh
"The question is whether you can make words mean so many different things."Alice
"Sometimes I don't understand people."Ponyboy Curtis
"Perhaps it hasn't one"Caterpillar
"The shortest distance between two points is a straight line."The Humbug
"That's only another way of saying the same thing, you know"Humpty Dumpty
"Ideas are the currency of a thinking person."King Azaz
"Contrariwise, 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."Humpty Dumpty
"I've a right to think that too, if I only knew what thinking was."Tweedledee and Tweedledum