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