Philosophy Quotes

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

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"As a man thinks, so he is."
James Chaney
J
"An unexamined life is not worth living."
James Chaney
M
"To be human is to recognize the humanity in every other person."
Michael Schwerner
M
"The struggle for equality is the struggle for the soul of a nation."
Michael Schwerner
M
"To fight for justice is to fight for the soul of humanity."
Michael Schwerner
M
"To seek justice is to seek the truest expression of democracy."
Michael Schwerner
M
"In our commitment to others, we find our truest selves."
Michael Schwerner
A
"We're the same folks we've always been, Scout. We just need to be reminded sometimes."
Atticus Finch
A
"Everything else is the work of man."
Atticus Finch
"Philosophy without application is intellectual vanity."
Al Sharpton
A
"The questions we refuse to ask define us as much as our answers."
Andrew Goodman
A
"The unexamined life is not worth living; the unlived life is not worth examining."
Andrew Goodman
F
"I question America. Is this the land of the free and the home of the brave?"
Fannie Lou Hamer
F
"I know the real America. I know what this country can be."
Fannie Lou Hamer
J
"Philosophy without action is merely intellectual indulgence."
James Chaney
J
"Philosophy is the art of living well."
James Chaney
A
"Philosophy begins where certainty ends."
Andrew Goodman
M
"The measure of a society is how it treats its most vulnerable."
Michael Schwerner
M
"Our legacy is determined by how we treat the least among us."
Michael Schwerner
M
"We are defined not by our words but by our commitments."
Michael Schwerner
C
"We should be concerned not merely about who murdered him but about the system, the way of life, the philosophy which produced the murderer."
Coretta Scott King
C
"Material wealth cannot ease the pain of spiritual emptiness."
Coretta Scott King
C
"The philosophy of nonviolence demands commitment to it in practical daily life."
Coretta Scott King
J
"To be human is to be called to account for the well-being of others."
James Reeb
"We are accountable not just to our generation but to generations yet unborn."
Al Sharpton
A
"The stories we tell ourselves become the lives we live."
Andrew Goodman
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"The soul of a nation is revealed not in its laws, but in how it treats the weakest among it."
Viola Liuzzo
J
"Philosophy asks us to question; courage demands we act on those questions"
James Chaney
J
"Philosophy without action is mere intellectual exercise"
James Chaney
J
"Philosophy teaches us how to live well."
James Meredith