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