Philosophy Quotes

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

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"In the end, we are all responsible for our choices."
Oppenheimer
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"The mind of a physicist is both gift and curse."
Oppenheimer
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"The human spirit is capable of both creation and destruction."
Oppenheimer
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"The physicist sees the world as equations; the poet sees it as meaning."
Oppenheimer
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"I believe in the power of human reason and the limits of human wisdom."
Oppenheimer
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"We are prisoners of the age we live in."
Oppenheimer
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"I have lived a life of ideas, and ideas have their own terrible weight."
Oppenheimer
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"The world we inherited and the world we created are at war within us."
Oppenheimer
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"Philosophy without action is just conversation."
Shuri
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"The world's broken. We both know it. We just disagree on how to fix it."
Killmonger
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"Betrayal is the only constant in this world."
Killmonger
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"The philosophy of war is simpler than you think: win."
General Groves
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"Philosophy is a luxury of peacetime."
General Groves
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"Philosophy asks the right questions, even if answers are hard to find."
Sasha
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"I've seen what men will sacrifice on the altar of their ambitions."
Kitty Oppenheimer
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"The most tragic equations are not mathematical, but emotional."
Kitty Oppenheimer
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"He pursued immortality through science and left mortality at our doorstep."
Kitty Oppenheimer
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"A woman learns philosophy not from books, but from the distance between two people in one bed."
Kitty Oppenheimer
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"The greatest threat to civilization is the man who believes he knows better."
Lewis Strauss
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"The masses do not understand what is necessary for their protection."
Lewis Strauss
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"I have learned that the pursuit of justice often requires injustice."
Lewis Strauss
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"The greatest threat to order is the voice of the powerless."
Lewis Strauss
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"The pursuit of happiness is a luxury reserved for the powerless."
Lewis Strauss
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"Philosophy is the search for truth in all things."
T'Challa
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"Philosophy without action is just conversation."
Mattel CEO
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"Philosophy without heart is just empty words."
Mattel CEO
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"We are not the arbiters of history."
Oppenheimer
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"If you believe that the sky is blue, then you see a blue sky."
Oppenheimer
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"Philosophy is the pursuit of fundamental truth."
Oppenheimer
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"I learned that people don't resist change—they resist being changed."
Ruth Handler