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