Philosophy Quotes

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

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"In studying yourself, you study all of humanity."
Agrippa Heinrich Cornelius
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"The universe rewards those who seek to understand its laws."
Agrippa Heinrich Cornelius
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"The universe is a sphere whose center is everywhere and whose circumference is nowhere."
Nicodemus Copernicus
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"By the side of the everlasting why there is a yes, and all true philosophy begins in wonder."
Nicodemus Copernicus
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"The eternal mystery of the world is its comprehensibility."
Nicodemus Copernicus
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"The universe operates according to natural laws, not divine caprice."
Bernardino Telesio
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"What we call divine intervention is often merely nature's operation."
Bernardino Telesio
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"In the study of nature, we find evidence of reality's true character."
Bernardino Telesio
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"In contemplating nature, we contemplate our own nature."
Bernardino Telesio
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"The study of nature elevates us above the condition of animals."
Bernardino Telesio
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"The study of philosophy teaches us to question what we take for granted."
Edward Wotton
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"Philosophy is not an escape from life but a deeper engagement with it."
Edward Wotton
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"The mind is everything. What you think you become."
Cosimo de Medici
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"All that we are is the result of what we have thought."
Cosimo de Medici
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"Every man is his own most vicious opponent."
Cosimo de Medici
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"The beginning of philosophy is a sense of wonder about how things are."
Cosimo de Medici
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"A man wrapped up in himself makes a very small package."
Cosimo de Medici
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"Pride is the mask of one's own faults."
Cosimo de Medici
C
"What we think, we become."
Cosimo de Medici
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"There is no illness which is not preceded by sin."
Paracelsus
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"The macrocosm and the microcosm are one."
Paracelsus
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"Identity is not found in the body, but in the soul."
Paracelsus
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"The signature of a thing is its form and property."
Paracelsus
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"It is in itself a wonder that anyone should believe in the existence of any reality outside his own mind."
Paracelsus
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"The flesh is the mirror of the soul."
Paracelsus
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"All the natural movements of the soul are controlled by laws analogous to those of physics."
Paracelsus
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"Every man carries two pots upon his shoulders: one of the highest good and one of the deepest evil."
Paracelsus
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"In every corpse there is a small spirit; if you eat the flesh of a corpse, you also eat the corpse spirit."
Paracelsus
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"The moon rules waters, women, and the emotions."
Paracelsus
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"The universe is not composed of matter and energy, but of love and wisdom."
Paracelsus