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
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"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
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"Meaning comes not from what things are, but from what they represent."
Tock
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"It is not whether things are true that matters, but whether they are believed."
The Humbug
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"Who in the world am I? Ah, that's the great puzzle."
Alice
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"Do cats eat bats? Do cats eat bats?"
Alice
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"Who in the world am I? Ah, that's the great puzzle."
Alice
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"I used to believe in forever, but forever is too long."
Eeyore
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"The question is whether you can make words mean so many different things."
Humpty Dumpty
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"Contrariwise, if it was so, it might be; and if it were so, it would be."
Tweedledee and Tweedledum
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"How do you know I'm mad?"
Cheshire Cat
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"I am not mad; I am eccentric."
Mad Hatter
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"Expect everything, I always say, and the unexpected never happens."
The Humbug
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"There's always a reason for everything."
Milo
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"The body is the prison house of the soul."
Anne Shirley
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"The more there is of mine, the less there is of yours"
Tweedledee and Tweedledum
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"Who in the world am I? Ah, that's the great puzzle."
Alice
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"There is much more than just one side to any question."
King Azaz
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"I'm not sure if I'm a monster or if I'm just human."
Ponyboy Curtis
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"Do you ever get the feeling nothing is real?"
Johnny Cade
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"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
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"Have you ever stopped to think, and forgotten to start again?"
Winnie-the-Pooh
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"The question is whether you can make words mean so many different things."
Alice
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"Sometimes I don't understand people."
Ponyboy Curtis
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"Perhaps it hasn't one"
Caterpillar
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"The shortest distance between two points is a straight line."
The Humbug
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"That's only another way of saying the same thing, you know"
Humpty Dumpty
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"Ideas are the currency of a thinking person."
King Azaz
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"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
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"I've a right to think that too, if I only knew what thinking was."
Tweedledee and Tweedledum