Philosophy Quotes
Questions about meaning, existence, and truth from thinkers who spent their lives searching for answers.
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"Being is infinite and without parts or divisions."Parmenides
"The unchanging nature of being is its perfection."Parmenides
"All becoming presupposes what already is."Parmenides
"What is complete in itself needs no external cause."Parmenides
"The mortal world of opinion is bound by contradiction."Parmenides
"Being cannot have come to be, for it always was."Parmenides
"What is cannot cease to be; destruction is impossible."Parmenides
"Being is the only thing that truly is and ever shall be."Parmenides
"All distinctions dissolve in the unity of being."Parmenides
"What is cannot be divided without contradiction."Parmenides
"Emptiness cannot exist; being fills all reality."Parmenides
"What is perfect admits no change, no growth, no decay."Parmenides
"What is cannot be less or more than what it is."Parmenides
"Being admits no past, no future, only an eternal present."Parmenides
"Philosophy is just fancy wondering."Peter Kay
"Philosophy is the art of being confused at a higher level."Peter Kay
"Philosophy is asking questions you can't answer and charging money for it."Frankie Boyle
"Strife and harmony dance together in the theater of the world."Empedocles
"The unexamined life is not worth living"Lee Evans
"Nothing human is alien to the understanding mind."Sophocles
"The body may age but the spirit can remain young."Sophocles
"Death is the end of nothing important."Sophocles
"We are all connected; separation is an illusion."Russell Brand
"By convention sweet is sweet, by convention bitter is bitter, by convention hot, cold, by convention color; but in reality there are atoms and void."Democritus
"The infinite in quantity and the infinite in space are the same."Democritus
"The world and the universe are infinite and were not created."Democritus
"The pursuit of pleasure should be measured by reason."Democritus
"The void is as real as matter itself."Democritus
"Nothing is created from nothing, and nothing perishes into nothingness."Democritus
"The void between atoms is as necessary as the atoms themselves."Democritus