Philosophy Quotes

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

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"A life examined is a life enriched by meaning."
Tomás Carrasquilla
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"The heart of a nation beats strongest in the stories of its people."
Tomás Carrasquilla
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"To be poor in material goods is not to be poor in spirit."
Tomás Carrasquilla
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"In the ordinary lives of ordinary people lies extraordinary meaning."
Tomás Carrasquilla
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"We are born to die, and everything in between is merely distraction."
Fernando Vallejo
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"We construct ourselves through the stories we tell about ourselves."
Fernando Vallejo
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"The soul is a luxury for those with time to spare."
Fernando Vallejo
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"We become what we pretend to be."
Fernando Vallejo
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"The human condition is one long negotiation with despair."
Fernando Vallejo
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"We live in the spaces between what we say and what we mean."
Fernando Vallejo
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"We create meaning through our actions, not our words."
Juan Carlos Onetti
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"Philosophy is asking the right questions, not finding answers."
Juan Carlos Onetti
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"We are prisoners of our own desires."
Juan Carlos Onetti
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"Identity is something we invent, not discover."
Juan Carlos Onetti
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"Philosophy is the art of questioning"
Rodolfo Walsh
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"The soul of a nation is tested in times of crisis"
Rodolfo Walsh
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"The soul of a nation is reflected in the eyes of its children who dare to question the old ways."
Alcides Arguedas
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"To understand Bolivia is to understand the collision of two worlds that have never truly merged."
Alcides Arguedas
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"To be human is to struggle against the forces that would diminish our humanity."
Alcides Arguedas
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"A society is judged by how it cares for those it views as less than itself."
Alcides Arguedas
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"A true intellectual is one who acts upon their convictions, not merely contemplates them."
Alcides Arguedas
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"A nation's soul is revealed in how it treats those at the margins of society."
Alcides Arguedas
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"The human being is a mystery unto himself, forever seeking what he already possesses."
Ernesto Sabato
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"Philosophy teaches us to question what we think we know."
Ernesto Sabato
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"The margins contain more truth than the center."
Haroldo Conti
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"To be is to be out of place in the world."
Haroldo Conti
"The world is so strange that reality seems like fiction and fiction like reality."
Gabriel García Márquez
"We wander miserably through the world, wasting our lives on purposes that are not our own."
Gabriel García Márquez
"Philosophy is the art of asking the right questions."
Gabriel García Márquez
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"The church has always been the enemy of knowledge and freedom."
Fernando Vallejo