Philosophy Quotes

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

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"Being is necessity itself."
Parmenides
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"Contingency is impossible in true being."
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"All is one; multiplicity is unreal."
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"What appears to move is really still."
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"Being and thought are inseparable."
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"Being admits no gradations or degrees."
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"Imperfection implies nonbeing."
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"Reality is self-sufficient and complete."
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"What is necessary cannot be otherwise."
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"Possibility must be grounded in being."
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"Being is homogeneous throughout."
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"Diversity implies defect or imperfection."
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"The infinite is impossible; being must be finite."
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"Being is completely determinate."
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"Indeterminacy would imply nonbeing."
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"All points in being are equidistant from the center."
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"Uniformity is the mark of true being."
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"The ultimate nature of reality is unchanging and eternal."
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"Being is the ground of all existence."
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"Nonbeing has no role in reality."
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"The paradoxes of change show that becoming is impossible."
Parmenides
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"A man can be judged not by the questions he raises, but by the answers he gives"
Sophocles
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"The unexamined life brings no advantage to those who live it"
Sophocles
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"To doubt is to begin to understand"
Sophocles
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"In each of us there are two natures warring."
Euripides
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"Nobility is a grace inherited, not one that is earned."
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"A man is his own most vicious enemy."
Euripides
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"Folly pursues the old as relentlessly as it pursues the young."
Euripides
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"The greatest evil is often done with the best intentions."
Euripides
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"Pride precedes the fall in all great men."
Euripides