Philosophy Quotes

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

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"In every particular thing, the infinite expresses itself."
Anaximenes
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"Thought and being are manifestations of the same essential force."
Anaximenes
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"The eternal substance requires no explanation beyond itself."
Anaximenes
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"All things participate in the infinite without being divided from it."
Anaximenes
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"The infinite expresses itself through infinite variety."
Anaximenes
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"All becoming originates from the infinite and returns to it."
Anaximenes
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"The visible world is a shadow cast by invisible principles."
Anaximenes
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"The infinite ground of being transcends all categorical thinking."
Anaximenes
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"All life shares a common essence with the cosmic whole."
Anaximenes
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"In the infinite, all opposites find their reconciliation."
Anaximenes
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"The infinite is not separate from us but constitutes our very being."
Anaximenes
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"The substance of all things is one, though manifested in infinite ways."
Anaximenes
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"The cosmos is rational, and we are the cosmos becoming aware of itself."
Anaximenes
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"The invisible sustains the visible; the eternal sustains the temporal."
Anaximenes
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"One god, greatest among gods and men, neither in form like unto mortals nor in thought."
Xenophanes
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"Every mortal believes the customs of their own people to be the best."
Xenophanes
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"Human nature is the measure of all things, not divine revelation."
Xenophanes
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"What mortals believe to be true is often merely custom."
Xenophanes
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"Mortals fancy the gods are born and have clothes and speech like themselves."
Xenophanes
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"The gods are not shaped by human hands but by human minds."
Xenophanes
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"The mind that questions everything approaches truth most closely."
Xenophanes
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"Every people fashions gods after their own image and likeness."
Xenophanes
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"What tradition calls sacred is often merely ancient custom."
Xenophanes
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"Each nation creates gods who resemble their own people."
Xenophanes
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"Custom passes for truth in the minds of the unthinking."
Xenophanes
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"The forms of gods multiply because mortals project themselves upon the infinite."
Xenophanes
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"What one nation worships, another nation mocks."
Xenophanes
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"Human nature is the measure by which humans misunderstand the divine."
Xenophanes
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"What mortals call eternal truth is merely persistent custom."
Xenophanes
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"The gods created by men reflect men's imperfections."
Xenophanes