Philosophy Quotes

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

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"The human being is composed of visible and invisible parts."
Paracelsus
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"Philosophy is valuable only when it leads to holiness; otherwise it is mere sophistry."
Girolamo Savonarola
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"The universe is a sphere whose center is everywhere and whose circumference is nowhere."
Nicodemus Copernicus
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"Man's place in the cosmos is humbling, yet his mind is boundless."
Nicodemus Copernicus
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"In the face of infinity, all our certainties crumble—and that is good."
Nicodemus Copernicus
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"We are all philosophers when we gaze upon the stars with genuine wonder."
Nicodemus Copernicus
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"In the vast cosmos, we find both our insignificance and our significance."
Nicodemus Copernicus
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"We are all temporary arrangements of eternal matter."
Nicodemus Copernicus
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"We are made of the dust of stars, and to the stars our questions return."
Nicodemus Copernicus
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"In the grand machinery of the universe, we are both insignificant and essential."
Nicodemus Copernicus
"Every organ has a purpose; every purpose has a design."
Andreas Vesalius
"The body is a book written in the language of creation."
Andreas Vesalius
"Every structure in the body tells a story of purpose."
Andreas Vesalius
"The body speaks louder than any doctrine."
Andreas Vesalius
"Each organ is a miracle of engineering and purpose."
Andreas Vesalius
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"The universe speaks in symbols to those who have learned the language of the stars."
Agrippa Heinrich Cornelius
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"The separation between the natural and supernatural is merely a failure of understanding."
Agrippa Heinrich Cornelius
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"The study of correspondence teaches us that we are never truly separate from the All."
Agrippa Heinrich Cornelius
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"Philosophy is the art of asking questions so profound that the answers transform us."
Agrippa Heinrich Cornelius
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"We are part of nature, not separate judges of it."
Bernardino Telesio
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"All natural phenomena possess internal principles that govern their behavior."
Bernardino Telesio
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"To live according to nature is to live according to reason."
Bernardino Telesio
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"To philosophize is to learn how to observe nature with precision."
Bernardino Telesio
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"Nature teaches that all things are interconnected and interdependent."
Bernardino Telesio
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"Nature operates according to principles that are rational, consistent, and knowable."
Bernardino Telesio
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"The natural order is the foundation upon which all human order should rest."
Bernardino Telesio
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"The study of nature is both humbling and empowering in equal measure."
Bernardino Telesio
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"The wise man questions everything, especially his own wisdom."
Cosimo de Medici
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"In every man lives a philosopher; we simply need to ask the right questions."
Cosimo de Medici
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"To understand the world, one must first understand the nature of one's own perception."
Edward Wotton