Philosophy Quotes

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

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"In the mixture of all things, love and strife dance eternally, creating the world we perceive."
Empedocles
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"Philosophy begins with wonder at the simple fact that anything exists at all."
Empedocles
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"The greatest minds are capable of the greatest vices as well as the greatest virtues."
Aristophanes
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"The pursuit of happiness is less important than the pursuit of meaning."
Aristophanes
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"A man's character is his destiny, and his choices are his legacy."
Aristophanes
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"Philosophy is the art of being confused at a higher level."
Frankie Boyle
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"We are all searching for meaning in a meaningless universe."
Frankie Boyle
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"The universe is indifferent to your suffering."
Frankie Boyle
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"To understand the cosmos is to understand oneself, for we are made of the same substance as the stars."
Anaximander
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"The boundless source cares not for the names we assign to it."
Anaximander
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"The universe operates without malice, indifferent to our desires."
Anaximander
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"All human laws are shadows cast by the eternal laws of nature."
Anaximander
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"Every drop of water contains the essence of the infinite sea."
Anaximander
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"The universe requires no witness, yet consciousness allows it to know itself."
Anaximander
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"It is better to examine one's life than to live without thought."
Democritus
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"Understanding the nature of the infinite is to understand the nature of one's own soul."
Democritus
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"The person who loves wisdom loves solitude, for there he finds her."
Democritus
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"Being and non-being are the same, and not the same."
Parmenides
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"The mortal mind grasps only opinions, not truth."
Parmenides
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"All that appears to come and go is but appearance."
Parmenides
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"The world of multiplicity is the world of illusion and deceit."
Parmenides
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"Reality tolerates no becoming, no growth, no death."
Parmenides
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"Being and thought are locked in eternal embrace."
Parmenides
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"The way of night and day are one in the being of all things."
Parmenides
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"All generated things are but shadows dancing on a wall."
Parmenides
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"Change is the greatest deception the world can offer."
Parmenides
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"The philosopher gazes upon Being as one might gaze upon a perfect sphere."
Parmenides
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"Being has no parts, for the whole is one and indivisible."
Parmenides
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"All that changes must contain within itself the seeds of contradiction."
Parmenides
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"In contemplating Being, the mind discovers its own eternal nature."
Parmenides