Philosophy Quotes

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

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"The unconscious mind speaks to us through dreams, accidents, and slips of the tongue."
Julio Cortázar
"The search for meaning is what makes life worth living, even if meaning escapes us."
Julio Cortázar
"The aesthetic is a form of moral resistance."
Luis Cernuda
"The self is not found; it is created through resistance."
Luis Cernuda
"Desire transcends the boundaries we construct."
Luis Cernuda
"The body is the only homeland we truly possess."
Luis Cernuda
"The invisible is more real than the seen."
Luis Cernuda
"To accept reality is to accept suffering."
Luis Cernuda
J
"The universe (which others call the Library) is composed of an indefinite and perhaps infinite number of hexagonal galleries."
Jorge Luis Borges
J
"Every man is two men: the man he is and the man he could have been."
Jorge Luis Borges
J
"One concept corrupts and confuses all others. I am not speaking of Evil, whose limited empire is that of ethics; I am speaking of the Infinite."
Jorge Luis Borges
J
"Perhaps universal history is the history of the different intonations given a handful of metaphors."
Jorge Luis Borges
J
"I have known uncertainty: a state unknown to the ancients."
Jorge Luis Borges
J
"Mirrors and copulation are abominable, because they increase the number of men."
Jorge Luis Borges
J
"The labyrinth is a perfect symbol of human existence."
Jorge Luis Borges
J
"I believe that every man carries within him a secret life."
Jorge Luis Borges
J
"Every person is a universe unto themselves, containing infinite worlds."
Jorge Luis Borges
J
"Every man is both the dreamer and the dream."
Jorge Luis Borges
A
"The eye you see is not an eye because you see it; it is an eye because it sees you."
Antonio Machado
A
"Man, in his reason, is always seeking; in his emotion, always finding."
Antonio Machado
A
"To be human is to search eternally for meaning in the vast unknown."
Antonio Machado
A
"To question is to be alive; to cease questioning is to begin to die."
Antonio Machado
J
"The heart understands what the mind cannot explain."
Juan Ramón Jiménez
J
"Every person carries a universe within them waiting to be explored."
Juan Ramón Jiménez
J
"To be fully present is the most radical act in an age of distraction."
Juan Ramón Jiménez
R
"The soul requires nourishment beyond bread alone."
Rafael Alberti
R
"The unexamined life is a life half-lived."
Rafael Alberti
R
"Philosophy is the art of asking the right questions."
Rafael Alberti
M
"What is called the philosophy of history is not the history of philosophy."
Miguel de Unamuno
M
"The sentiment of the tragic is the sentiment of the sublime."
Miguel de Unamuno