Philosophy Quotes

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

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"To philosophize is to make a distinction which cuts right through the center of human interests."
John Dewey
"Philosophy begins with wonder; never stop wondering about the world."
John Amos Comenius
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"The owl of Minerva spreads its wings only with the falling of the dusk."
Friedrich Hegel
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"The real is rational; the rational is real."
Friedrich Hegel
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"The negation of the negation is the affirmation of being."
Friedrich Hegel
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"The infinite is the negation of finitude."
Friedrich Hegel
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"The abstract must be realized in the concrete."
Friedrich Hegel
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"The dialectic reveals the unity of opposites."
Friedrich Hegel
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"The universal is mediated through the particular."
Friedrich Hegel
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"The concept returns to itself through mediation."
Friedrich Hegel
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"Spirit knows itself through its determinations."
Friedrich Hegel
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"Being is the thesis, nothingness is the antithesis."
Friedrich Hegel
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"The infinite is not beyond the finite."
Friedrich Hegel
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"The subjective spirit becomes objective in institutions."
Friedrich Hegel
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"The determinate is the negation of indeterminacy."
Friedrich Hegel
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"The negative is the dynamic principle of all being."
Friedrich Hegel
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"Actuality is the unity of essence and existence."
Friedrich Hegel
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"The universal community is the goal of history."
Friedrich Hegel
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"Every individual is a revelation of humanity in a unique way."
Friedrich Schleiermacher
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"Consciousness is not a passive reception but an active construction of meaning."
Friedrich Schleiermacher
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"The self is not fixed but continually formed through interaction with others."
Friedrich Schleiermacher
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"The capacity for wonder is the beginning of all philosophy."
Friedrich Schleiermacher
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"The infinite finite paradox is the fundamental reality of human existence."
Friedrich Schleiermacher
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"Language does not exist apart from consciousness; it expresses the world as we perceive and shape it."
Paulo Freire
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"Philosophy becomes meaningful only when it addresses the concrete struggles of real people."
Paulo Freire
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"Everything that frees your spirit without giving you a sense of mastery is meaningless."
Johann Wolfgang Goethe
"Philosophy begins with wonder and curiosity."
John Amos Comenius
"Philosophy teaches us how to live according to reason."
John Amos Comenius
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"The capacity to think of things as connected is the basis of all reasoning."
John Dewey
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"Beliefs are formed by the operation of natural selection and habituation."
John Dewey