Philosophy Quotes

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

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"Your character is your destiny."
Satya Sai Baba
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"Attachment is the root cause of all suffering."
Satya Sai Baba
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"Suffering teaches the deepest lessons."
Satya Sai Baba
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"The mind is your greatest weapon or your worst enemy."
Satya Sai Baba
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"All differences in this world are of degree, and not of kind, because oneness is the secret of everything."
Sri Sarada Devi
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"Where can we go to find God if we cannot see Him in our own hearts and in every living being?"
Sri Sarada Devi
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"All love is expansion, all selfishness is contraction."
Sri Sarada Devi
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"Where can we go to find God if not in our own hearts?"
Sri Sarada Devi
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"The great secret is to transcend your ego."
Sri Sarada Devi
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"The world is not outside you. All that you see, think, and feel is within your own consciousness."
Nisargadatta Maharaj
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"Your thoughts are not your own. They arise in consciousness like waves in the ocean."
Nisargadatta Maharaj
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"In deep sleep, you exist without the world. Similarly, the world exists in you."
Nisargadatta Maharaj
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"You are not born, nor will you die. You are the space in which birth and death occur."
Nisargadatta Maharaj
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"Philosophy is the love of wisdom."
Dayananda Saraswati
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"Philosophy asks the questions that matter most."
Dayananda Saraswati
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"In the ocean of existence, the drop does not die; it becomes the ocean."
Meher Baba
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"The divine is hidden in the ordinary if we have eyes to see."
Meher Baba
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"To question is to seek truth; to seek is to find God."
Meher Baba
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"The greatest discovery is discovering who you truly are."
Meher Baba
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"Philosophy is living rightly, not merely thinking rightly."
Ammachi (Mata Amritanandamayi)
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"The sense of 'I am' is your first landmark. Before that, nothing existed for you."
Nisargadatta Maharaj
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"The body is temporary, consciousness is eternal. Identify with the eternal."
Nisargadatta Maharaj
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"Philosophy is simply the art of asking better questions."
Anandamayi Ma
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"Philosophy begins when you stop accepting and start questioning."
Anandamayi Ma
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"The true test of civilization is not the census, nor the size of cities, but the kind of man the country turns out."
Sri Sarada Devi
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"The measure of a person is not in their wealth, but in their character."
Sri Sarada Devi
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"Every person is a unique expression of the divine."
Sri Sarada Devi
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"The heart knows truths that the intellect cannot comprehend through logic alone."
Satya Sai Baba
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"In the eyes of God, all beings are equal; only the degree of consciousness varies."
Satya Sai Baba
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"Every action, no matter how small, sends ripples through the fabric of existence."
Satya Sai Baba