Philosophy Quotes
Questions about meaning, existence, and truth from thinkers who spent their lives searching for answers.
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"The mind is the bridge between the eternal and the temporal."Anaxagoras
"The masses have never thirsted after truth; they turn aside from evidence that is not to their taste."Aristophanes
"A man cannot escape his nature any more than he can escape his shadow."Aristophanes
"The pursuit of pleasure without moral constraint leads inevitably to the destruction of both pleasure and morality."Aristophanes
"The greatest folly is to believe one's own wisdom and doubt the wisdom of ages past."Aristophanes
"Character is fate."Euripides
"The unexamined life is not worth living."Euripides
"The burden of proof lies with the one making the claim."Euripides
"To understand others, one must first understand oneself."Euripides
"The apeiron, the boundless, is the principle from which all things arise and to which all things return."Anaximander
"All things share in the infinite, and the infinite dwells in all things."Anaximander
"The infinite cannot be understood through finite means alone."Anaximander
"Every substance contains within itself the contradiction of becoming and ceasing."Anaximander
"In the apeiron, all contradictions find their resolution without contradiction."Anaximander
"The boundaries we perceive are illusions born of limited perception."Anaximander
"The infinite cannot be named, yet all things speak its truth."Anaximander
"The observer and the observed are one within the boundless whole."Anaximander
"To doubt all certainties is the beginning of true understanding."Anaximander
"In the apeiron dwells both the mercy and the necessity of existence."Anaximander
"All knowledge is but notes on a music that has no beginning and no end."Anaximander
"Nothing exists except atoms and empty space; everything else is opinion."Democritus
"Do not try to establish all things by rules; many things are better left to custom."Democritus
"Nothing is created from nothing, nor passes into non-existence."Democritus
"If you pursue this life, you will perfect the matter."Democritus
"The universe is an infinite sphere whose center is everywhere and circumference nowhere."Democritus
"Thinking is the talking of the soul with itself."Democritus
"Wealth and poverty are not terms of truth but terms of error."Democritus
"Observe the wind to understand the invisible forces that govern existence."Anaximenes
"To understand air is to understand the bridge between matter and spirit."Anaximenes
"The universe is not made of atoms alone, but of infinite gradations of being."Anaximenes