Philosophy Quotes

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

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"The ultimate concern is that which determines our being or non-being."
Paul Tillich
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"The depths of our being are unknowable to our conscious mind."
Paul Tillich
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"The essence of humanity is our capacity for self-transcendence."
Paul Tillich
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"The search for authenticity is the search for our true self."
Paul Tillich
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"The self is always in process, never finally formed or complete."
Paul Tillich
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"The human being is a threefold creature: thinking, feeling, and willing."
Rudolf Steiner
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"Philosophy is the love of wisdom, and wisdom is the fruit of lived experience."
Rudolf Steiner
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"The human being is a microcosm of the universe, containing all its secrets."
Rudolf Steiner
"The soul is neither born, and nor does it die."
Annie Besant
"The soul's evolution is the purpose of existence."
Annie Besant
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"The mind is the great slayer of the real. Let the disciple slay the slayer."
Helena Blavatsky
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"Philosophy is the love of wisdom, not wisdom itself."
Helena Blavatsky
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"Every soul must eventually find its way home."
Helena Blavatsky
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"Philosophy questions what others take for granted."
Helena Blavatsky
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"Does consciousness exist? I say yes."
William James
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"The world we see is born of a single consciousness meeting its own mirror."
William James
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"The sway of alcohol over mankind is unquestionably due to its power to stimulate the mystical faculties."
William James
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"Pluralism is good, monism is sterile."
William James
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"Metaphysical arguments are uninteresting."
William James
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"Thought is in constant change, in constant flux."
William James
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"Pragmatism is a method and a theory of meaning simultaneously."
William James
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"Patience of the moral law suggests that there is intelligence."
William James
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"When all is said and done, we are living a mythology, and there is nothing we can do about it."
William James
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"True philosophy must take the deepest account of human experience."
William James
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"The intellect and will must be united in true religion."
Jonathan Edwards
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"The mind of God is infinite in its comprehension."
Jonathan Edwards
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"All human endeavors are vain without God."
Jonathan Edwards
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"The will cannot be forced into genuine obedience."
Jonathan Edwards
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"The mystery of being is the only ultimate explanation of being."
Paul Tillich
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"The finite contains the infinite."
Paul Tillich