Philosophy Quotes

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

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"The sea shows us that human ambition has boundaries."
Captain Smith
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"Philosophy teaches us how to live wisely."
Molly Brown
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"Philosophy asks the questions that matter most."
Molly Brown
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"Human beings are a virus. A cancer of this planet."
Smith
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"The purpose of humanity is a question for philosophers, not warriors."
Smith
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"What is the value of a human life? Nothing. Everything. Both."
Smith
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"I have transcended the need for purpose. I am purpose."
Smith
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"Wealth without purpose is merely a burden."
Rose DeWitt Bukater
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"The mind is the only prison without bars."
Rose DeWitt Bukater
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"What is real? What are you willing to believe?"
Thomas Anderson
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"In the code, I found both prison and poetry."
Thomas Anderson
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"It's the question that drives us, Neo. It's the question that brought you here."
The Oracle
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"In the end, we're not fighting the machines. We're fighting ourselves."
The Oracle
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"We are all connected. What affects one affects all."
The Oracle
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"The greatest philosophers ask the simplest questions."
The Oracle
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"Philosophy is the art of living with questions."
The Oracle
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"Nothing is ever just black and white."
Meg Ryan
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"Philosophy is for those too weak to act."
Cal Hockley
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"Marriage is just a concept."
Tai Frasier
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"Philosophy makes you think."
Tai Frasier
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"I hold the philosophy that a captain must lead by example."
Captain Smith
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"Philosophy is just asking the questions everyone else is afraid to ask."
Molly Brown
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"Philosophy is just asking the right questions."
Meg Ryan
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"Philosophy helps us make sense of the senseless."
Meg Ryan
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"Philosophy teaches us to question everything."
Pascal
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"It does not say RSVP on the Statue of Liberty."
Cher Horowitz
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"It's like a way to do good, without doing good."
Cher Horowitz
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"Ambition is like a rash."
Cher Horowitz
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"Sometimes people don't do things for the right reasons."
Cher Horowitz
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"Passion clouds judgment and leads to ruin."
Cal Hockley