Philosophy Quotes

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

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"Radicalism is the practice of critical thinking."
Angela Davis
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"We must reject the notion that there is something inherent about any social institution."
Angela Davis
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"The prison is a metaphor."
Angela Davis
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"Sustainability is not just an environmental issue; it is a moral imperative for our time."
Winona LaDuke
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"We need to remember that we are part of nature, not separate from it."
Winona LaDuke
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"We cannot buy our way out of this crisis; we must change how we live."
Winona LaDuke
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"Food, water, and air are not commodities; they are the basis of life itself."
Winona LaDuke
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"Our relationship with the land must be based on reciprocity, not extraction."
Winona LaDuke
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"We must learn to see the value in what cannot be bought or sold."
Winona LaDuke
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"We must transform our relationship with nature before nature transforms us."
Winona LaDuke
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"The most profound act of resistance is to live in harmony with the earth."
Winona LaDuke
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"The economy exists within the ecosystem, not the other way around."
Winona LaDuke
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"We are all related—to each other, to all living things, and to the earth itself."
Winona LaDuke
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"The earth is not in crisis because humans are bad; it is in crisis because we have forgotten who we are."
Winona LaDuke
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"We are the bridge between the ancient wisdom of our ancestors and the sustainable future of our descendants."
Winona LaDuke
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"The earth gives us everything we need; we must learn to take only what we need."
Winona LaDuke
"We must shift from thinking of nature as a machine to understanding it as a living organism."
Vandana Shiva
"The universe is not a dead machine; it is alive and intelligent."
Vandana Shiva
"Industrial thinking has separated head from heart, spirit from matter."
Vandana Shiva
"We are the earth speaking to itself and knowing itself."
Vandana Shiva
"Every species has intrinsic value, not just instrumental value."
Vandana Shiva
"We are made of the same elements as the stars and the soil."
Vandana Shiva
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"The philosophy of sustainability must guide us."
James Hansen
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"The myth of progress has blinded us to our actual decline."
Naomi Klein
"We must learn to think like a mountain, as Aldo Leopold said."
Bill McKibben
"We need to recover a sense of humility about our place in nature."
Bill McKibben
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"We're asked to believe that the free market will save the earth, but the free market has created all these problems."
Arundhati Roy
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"Philosophy is not about having the right answers but asking the right questions."
Arundhati Roy
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"We live in a strange world where everyone seems to agree that future is very important."
Greta Thunberg
"Money is the metric we use to measure the wrong things."
Bill McKibben