Philosophy Quotes
Questions about meaning, existence, and truth from thinkers who spent their lives searching for answers.
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"Humility is the foundation upon which all virtues are built."Teresa of Avila
"Philosophy is the art of asking better questions."Teresa of Avila
"The human being is a finite mode of the infinite substance."Spinoza
"All determination is negation; to define something is to exclude something else."Spinoza
"We never desire a thing because we deem it good; rather we deem it good because we desire it."Spinoza
"We call that good which promotes the power of acting; we call that evil which diminishes it."Spinoza
"The order and connection of ideas is the same as the order and connection of things."Spinoza
"The finite cannot contain the infinite; we are forever part of something greater."Spinoza
"Perfection and imperfection are ways of thinking, not absolute realities."Spinoza
"Spinoza rejected the notion that God created the world for human purposes."Spinoza
"To live ethically is simply to live in accordance with one's own nature."Spinoza
"The greatest journey is the one within your own being."Ibn Arabi
"The world mirrors your inner state; change within to change without."Ibn Arabi
"The past teaches; the present acts; the future dreams."Ibn Arabi
"The gates of understanding open through persistent questioning."Ibn Arabi
"The way of the heart transcends all doctrines and schools."Ibn Arabi
"The path of truth is walked alone, yet never in solitude."Ibn Arabi
"God is in the innermost part of each thing."Meister Eckhart
"The soul is in the spirit, and the spirit is in the soul."Meister Eckhart
"The soul is so noble and precious that few can understand her."Meister Eckhart
"The soul is eternal and beyond time."Meister Eckhart
"All division is illusion; all is one in God."Meister Eckhart
"The Guest is inside you, and also inside me. You know the sprout is hidden inside the seed. We are all crop."Hafiz
"God is a poet, not an accountant."Hafiz
"You came to this world not to master it, but to understand its beauty."Hafiz
"You are not a drop in the ocean. You are the entire ocean in a drop."Rumi (Jalal ad-Din Rumi)
"You are the sky. Everything else is just the weather."Rumi (Jalal ad-Din Rumi)
"You are a child of the universe, no less than the trees and the stars."Rumi (Jalal ad-Din Rumi)
"You don't have a soul. You are a soul. You have a body."Rumi (Jalal ad-Din Rumi)
"God is in the innermost depths of all things."Meister Eckhart