Philosophy Quotes

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

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"The self we present to others is always incomplete."
Federigo Tozzi
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"Ambition without ethics is merely hunger."
Federigo Tozzi
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"The hunger for meaning is what makes us human."
Federigo Tozzi
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"Every person is a universe unto themselves."
Federigo Tozzi
"Man would be much offended if he were told he is a machine."
Italo Svevo
"Consciousness is a disease."
Italo Svevo
"Philosophy is the art of asking better questions."
Italo Svevo
"The examined life is the only one worth living."
Italo Svevo
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"Language is both a prison and a key."
Elsa Morante
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"The human capacity for love is matched only by its capacity for cruelty."
Elsa Morante
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"We are all complicit in the structures that harm us."
Elsa Morante
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"The night teaches us what daylight hides."
Elsa Morante
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"The search for meaning is itself meaningful."
Elsa Morante
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"Words fail us precisely when we most need them."
Elsa Morante
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"Suffering is not ennobling, pain is not a doorway to anything."
Cesare Pavese
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"The real sickness of the modern age is despair."
Cesare Pavese
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"We are all seeking something in this life."
Cesare Pavese
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"The mind is its own place."
Cesare Pavese
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"The void stares back at those who stare too long."
Cesare Pavese
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"We must question everything we believe."
Cesare Pavese
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"We are responsible for our choices."
Cesare Pavese
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"Language is not neutral; it carries within it the ideology of those who speak it."
Pier Paolo Pasolini
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"Passion and intellect must work together, or both are diminished."
Pier Paolo Pasolini
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"We are prisoners of our own language."
Pier Paolo Pasolini
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"Every gesture carries ideology within it."
Pier Paolo Pasolini
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"Words are weapons; choose them with care."
Pier Paolo Pasolini
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"Memory is the thread that holds identity together."
Pier Paolo Pasolini
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"The death of language is the death of thought."
Pier Paolo Pasolini
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"To be fully human is to be aware of the complexity of existence."
Elio Vittorini
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"Philosophy begins with the willingness to question everything, including our questions."
Elio Vittorini