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
"The owl of Minerva spreads its wings only with the falling of the dusk."Friedrich Hegel
"The real is rational; the rational is real."Friedrich Hegel
"The negation of the negation is the affirmation of being."Friedrich Hegel
"The infinite is the negation of finitude."Friedrich Hegel
"The abstract must be realized in the concrete."Friedrich Hegel
"The dialectic reveals the unity of opposites."Friedrich Hegel
"The universal is mediated through the particular."Friedrich Hegel
"The concept returns to itself through mediation."Friedrich Hegel
"Spirit knows itself through its determinations."Friedrich Hegel
"Being is the thesis, nothingness is the antithesis."Friedrich Hegel
"The infinite is not beyond the finite."Friedrich Hegel
"The subjective spirit becomes objective in institutions."Friedrich Hegel
"The determinate is the negation of indeterminacy."Friedrich Hegel
"The negative is the dynamic principle of all being."Friedrich Hegel
"Actuality is the unity of essence and existence."Friedrich Hegel
"The universal community is the goal of history."Friedrich Hegel
"Every individual is a revelation of humanity in a unique way."Friedrich Schleiermacher
"Consciousness is not a passive reception but an active construction of meaning."Friedrich Schleiermacher
"The self is not fixed but continually formed through interaction with others."Friedrich Schleiermacher
"The capacity for wonder is the beginning of all philosophy."Friedrich Schleiermacher
"The infinite finite paradox is the fundamental reality of human existence."Friedrich Schleiermacher
"Language does not exist apart from consciousness; it expresses the world as we perceive and shape it."Paulo Freire
"Philosophy becomes meaningful only when it addresses the concrete struggles of real people."Paulo Freire
"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
"The capacity to think of things as connected is the basis of all reasoning."John Dewey
"Beliefs are formed by the operation of natural selection and habituation."John Dewey