Philosophy Quotes
Questions about meaning, existence, and truth from thinkers who spent their lives searching for answers.
43879 quotes
C
L
L
L
G
G
J
J
J
J
J
J
M
M
V
V
V
A
A
A
P
P
"The intellectual life is a form of rebellion against comfortable ignorance."Carlos Fuentes
"Society creates the masks we wear, but the face beneath is entirely our own."José Donoso
"Fate is what happens when we stop paying attention to our own choices."José Donoso
"To be human is to be caught in an endless contradiction between desire and duty."José Donoso
"The self is a construction, always being rebuilt, never complete."José Donoso
"We are all exiles from some imagined homeland of wholeness."José Donoso
"In every heart, there is a capacity for both tenderness and cruelty."José Donoso
"Philosophy begins where we stop explaining and start questioning."José Donoso
"The self is an invention we believe in until it breaks."José Donoso
"The feminine perspective reveals truths that logic cannot reach."Laura Esquivel
"The body is the first text we learn to read and the last we understand."Laura Esquivel
"The feminine principle understands that wholeness includes both dark and light."Laura Esquivel
"The human being is a selfish creature, it seems."Gabriela Mistral
"The philosophers have only interpreted the world. The point is to change it."Gabriela Mistral
"To understand a place, you must first understand its ghosts."Juan Rulfo
"The stories we tell ourselves are the prisons we build brick by brick."Juan Rulfo
"In repetition, we see the patterns of fate that govern our lives."Juan Rulfo
"The mockery of existence is that we understand life only in retrospect."Juan Rulfo
"In the repetition of days, we discover either meaning or madness."Juan Rulfo
"To understand humanity, study those who have nothing left to lose."Juan Rulfo
"La filosofía nos enseña a vivir, no solo a pensar."Mariano Latorre
"La filosofía es el arte de vivir bien."Mariano Latorre
"The universe speaks in metaphor"Vicente Huidobro
"Perception shapes reality as much as reality shapes perception"Vicente Huidobro
"Language shapes thought as thought shapes language"Vicente Huidobro
"Philosophy is not abstract; it is how we choose to live."Ariel Dorfman
"The struggle for identity is universal and deeply personal."Ariel Dorfman
"The question of how to live ethically is the central question of philosophy."Ariel Dorfman
"We philosophers must always remember that we are not men of letters."Pablo Neruda
"An individual is precious. Individuals make up society."Pablo Neruda