Philosophy Quotes

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

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"We are trapped between the person we are and the person we wish to be."
José Donoso
"The body is the site where the personal becomes political."
José Donoso
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"Man has always tried to make himself a god. This is the purpose of culture."
Vicente Huidobro
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"The universe speaks in the language of poetry."
Vicente Huidobro
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"Every question contains its own answer if we look deep enough."
Vicente Huidobro
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"The universe speaks through those who learn to listen."
Vicente Huidobro
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"The soul speaks in images and symbols."
Vicente Huidobro
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"The universe is indifferent, but art is not."
Vicente Huidobro
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"Philosophy helps us ask better questions about our existence."
Isabel Allende
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"The most universal thing is individuality."
Gabriela Mistral
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"We are all branches of the same tree, leaves of the same wind."
Gabriela Mistral
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"I am because others are; we are all connected."
Gabriela Mistral
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"Every age believes itself to be the most important."
Mariano Latorre
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"The search for meaning is the search for self."
Mariano Latorre
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"Every generation must redefine what it means to be human."
Mariano Latorre
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"We are all prisoners of our own perspective."
Mariano Latorre
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"Philosophy begins where certainty ends and wonder begins again."
Magali Quispe Quispe
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"Philosophy teaches us to question the questions we've been given."
Magali Quispe Quispe
"Memory is not what happened, but what we choose to remember."
José Donoso
"We are all exiles in our own stories."
José Donoso
"The body remembers what the mind forgets."
José Donoso
"Philosophy begins with discomfort."
José Donoso
"Philosophy is asking questions that echo eternally."
José Donoso
"I believe in the poetry of the invisible and the visible world."
Claudia Llosa
"The invisible world is more real than the visible one."
Claudia Llosa
"Art is the conversation we have with ourselves about who we are."
Claudia Llosa
"The invisible threads connecting all things are the subject of my work."
Claudia Llosa
"Every person carries a universe within."
José María Arguedas
"Philosophy is the search for truth."
José María Arguedas
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"The human soul is a mysterious instrument."
Pablo Neruda