Philosophy Quotes

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

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"Philosophy asks why. I ask what's your budget?"
Saul Goodman
D
"A closed mind is a closed door to understanding."
Dana Scully
D
"Compassion and logic are not enemies—they're partners."
Dana Scully
D
"We find meaning in what we contribute, not what we accumulate."
Dana Scully
D
"We are all searching for something—the question is what we're willing to sacrifice for it."
Dana Scully
G
"Every person carries secrets that would change how we see them."
Gillian Anderson
G
"I've learned that the answers we seek are often within us."
Gillian Anderson
G
"Philosophy helps us make sense of the senseless."
Gillian Anderson
C
"A cigarette is a meditation on inevitability."
Cigarette Smoking Man
C
"Those who seek absolute answers are destined for disappointment."
Cigarette Smoking Man
C
"Every action is a sacrifice of an alternative future."
Cigarette Smoking Man
B
"There is nothing good or bad, only what you decide it is."
Breaking Bad Walter White
B
"Everything we do defines who we are."
Breaking Bad Walter White
B
"People are inherently selfish. Accept it and prosper."
Breaking Bad Walter White
B
"Reality is what you make it to be."
Breaking Bad Walter White
B
"The world is divided into those who act and those who are acted upon."
Breaking Bad Walter White
F
"Nothing in this world happens by coincidence."
Fox Mulder
F
"The mind is both our greatest asset and our deepest prison."
Fox Mulder
F
"Every person contains multitudes of mysteries."
Fox Mulder
B
"Nice guys finish last, and I'm no nice guy."
Biff Tannen
D
"We spend so much time looking for answers that we forget to ask the right questions."
David Duchovny
D
"Philosophy asks the questions we're afraid to answer."
David Duchovny
W
"Philosophy asks the right questions; experience provides the answers."
Walter Skinner
W
"The institutions we build to protect us often become prisons of our own making."
Walter Skinner
D
"What happens if Marty sees us together? It could create a paradox."
Dr. Emmett Brown
D
"There are consequences to every action."
Dr. Emmett Brown
D
"Philosophy questions what science explores."
Dr. Emmett Brown
G
"That's a pretty heavy question."
George McFly
F
"Skepticism is the disease of the modern mind."
Fox Mulder
F
"The real monsters are often human."
Fox Mulder