Philosophy Quotes

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

43879 quotes

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"Philosophy is just asking better questions."
Arthur Curry
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"Philosophy asks the questions that matter; never stop asking."
Hippolyta
H
"Philosophy is the attempt to understand the incomprehensible."
Hippolyta
B
"I've spent my life studying people. Now I understand them better than they understand themselves."
Barbara Minerva
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"I've learned that the most dangerous people are those with nothing left to lose."
Barbara Minerva
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"The greatest battles are often fought within ourselves."
Mera
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"I am learning that the surface world is not so different from ours."
Mera
M
"A true hero questions their own righteousness."
Mera
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"Compassion is a luxury for those who can afford to be weak."
Cheetah
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"Power isn't evil. Denying yourself power is the real tragedy."
Cheetah
C
"Power is the only gift worth accepting in this world."
Cheetah
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"Philosophy is how the unsuccessful explain their failure."
Maxwell Lord
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"I've seen the best and worst of humanity."
Steve Trevor
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"The measure of a person is not in their power, but in their choices."
Antiope
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"Philosophy teaches us to question everything."
Antiope
A
"We are defined not by our circumstances, but by our response to them."
Antiope
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"Every civilization believes it is righteous, yet all wage war."
Ares
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"Philosophy teaches us to question everything we think we know."
Hippolyta
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"Philosophy without action is just empty words."
Arthur Curry
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"Philosophy asks the right questions. Living answers them."
Arthur Curry
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"Greed is humanity's greatest failing and finest achievement."
Doctor Fate
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"The gods watch humanity with a mixture of pity and admiration."
Doctor Fate
D
"To wish is to admit the incompleteness of one's existence."
Doctor Fate
D
"You cannot kill what was never alive."
Doomsday
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"I do not hate you; I simply am."
Doomsday
D
"There is no philosophy that explains what I am."
Doomsday
B
"Sometimes the monster and the hero wear the same face."
Barbara Minerva
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"I understand the darkness in human nature because I feel it too."
Barbara Minerva
B
"Every god has the capacity to become a tyrant."
Barbara Minerva
B
"Power corrupts only those who allow it to."
Barbara Minerva