Philosophy Quotes

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

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"We are all idolaters in our hearts."
John Wesley
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"Common sense is the measure of the possible."
William James
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"There is very little difference between one man and another; but what little there is, is very important."
William James
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"The deepest question of philosophy is why we do anything at all."
William James
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"Our normal waking consciousness is but one special type of consciousness."
William James
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"Philosophy is an unusually harmonious field of intellectual activity."
William James
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"The hell to be endured hereafter is no worse than the hell we make for ourselves in this world by our follies and sins."
William James
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"Our normal waking consciousness is but one special type of consciousness, whilst all about it, parted from it by the filmiest of screens, there lie potential forms of consciousness entirely different."
William James
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"The question of whether free will is compatible with determinism is perhaps the most difficult problem philosophy has to face."
William James
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"The soul is the mirror of an indestructible universe."
Jacob Böhme
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"In contemplation, the mind becomes a window to eternity."
Jacob Böhme
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"The infinite dwells in the finite; seek it in the small things."
Jacob Böhme
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"The infinite is not absent from the finite but hidden within it."
Jacob Böhme
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"In every person dwells a spark of the divine fire."
Jacob Böhme
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"The universe responds to the frequency of our deepest beliefs."
Jacob Böhme
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"The soul's true home is in the realm of eternal becoming."
Jacob Böhme
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"Evil is not a force but an absence of good, as darkness is the absence of light."
Emanuel Swedenborg
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"The quality of our thoughts determines the quality of our lives."
Emanuel Swedenborg
"The kingdom of God advances not through violence but through transformed hearts."
Charles Wesley
"The struggle with our own nature is the truest battle we shall face."
Charles Wesley
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"Nothing in the universe is contingent, but all things are conditioned to exist and operate in a particular manner."
Spinoza
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"Nothing is evil from the point of view of eternity."
Spinoza
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"We are determined by external causes to exist and act."
Spinoza
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"All determination is negation."
Spinoza
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"The human mind is part of the infinite intellect of God."
Spinoza
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"The infinite attribute of God is expressed in infinite ways."
Spinoza
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"Eternity is the very essence of substance."
Spinoza
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"The more perfect a thing is, the more it is destroyed by external causes."
Spinoza
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"No particular thing exists without the universal."
Spinoza
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"Anything which is in God must be conceived through God."
Spinoza