Philosophy Quotes

"To be human is to be a paradox, forever torn between opposing desires."

"We are all wounded in ways we do not fully understand."

"We are all prisoners of our own perspectives, seeing only what we have been taught to see."

"In the end, we are all defined by the choices we make and the roads we refuse to travel."

"We are all prisoners of our own minds."

"The unexamined life is not worth living."

"What we think, we become."

"Philosophy begins in wonder."

"Philosophy teaches us how to live wisely."

"Every person has infinite worth."

"The intellectual has a duty to disturb false peace."

"Humility before the archive of human experience is essential."

"Language is the first battleground of ideology."

"Power's greatest fear is the accumulation of individual truths into collective understanding."

"The universe (which others call the Library) is composed of an indefinite and perhaps infinite number of hexagonal galleries."

"An intellectual is a man who uses words to describe reality."

"To define is to exclude and negate."

"All things are words of some tongue that the gods speak in whispers."

"The notion that I am myself is an old and a strange notion."

"The idea of a destiny is the central theme of my work."

"We are both the same: neither of us had the certainty of what we were."

"There is a concept which corrupts and upsets all others - not as an opinion but as a metaphor."

"I have devoted my life to the pursuit of being."

"We search for meaning in a world that may have none."

"The mind is a prison of its own making."

"The modern world is a symphony of noise and a silence of meaning."

"The unexamined life is not worth living, nor is the over-examined one."

"The self is not a fixed thing but a constant process of becoming."

"The question is not whether life has meaning but what meaning we give it."

"The human condition is marked by our inability to accept what cannot be changed."