Philosophy Quotes

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

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"Philosophy is not abstract speculation, but practical wisdom for living."
Anaximenes
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"The substance that fills all space is indifferent to human wishes and fears."
Anaximenes
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"I am not a mortal being"
Empedocles
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"All things come into being not by chance, but by necessity"
Empedocles
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"This is the nature of immortal mortals and mortal immortals"
Empedocles
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"To understand nature is to understand ourselves"
Empedocles
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"All things flow from the eternal struggle"
Empedocles
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"The mind creates reality"
Empedocles
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"Hatred is the child of misunderstanding"
Empedocles
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"All suffering comes from attachment"
Empedocles
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"The mind is the maker of the world"
Empedocles
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"The universe is alive and conscious"
Empedocles
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"Being is; not-being is not."
Parmenides
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"Thought and being are the same."
Parmenides
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"Being is ungenerated, imperishable, whole, homogeneous, and immovable."
Parmenides
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"Nonbeing cannot be thought."
Parmenides
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"Being is continuous and indivisible."
Parmenides
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"Motion is impossible, for it would require the void."
Parmenides
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"All that exists is eternal and infinite."
Parmenides
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"Reality is static and unchanging."
Parmenides
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"Being is perfect and complete."
Parmenides
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"Incompleteness would imply deficiency."
Parmenides
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"What is must be all alike."
Parmenides
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"Difference implies nonbeing."
Parmenides
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"The infinite and finite cannot both exist."
Parmenides
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"The fundamental question is: why is there being rather than nonbeing?"
Parmenides
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"All explanations must rest on being."
Parmenides
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"The universe is rational and ordered."
Parmenides
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"Unified reality underlies apparent multiplicity."
Parmenides
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"Being is uncreated and eternal."
Parmenides