Philosophy Quotes

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

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"The unexamined life is a life of perpetual childhood."
Italo Svevo
"A life without contradiction is a life without depth."
Italo Svevo
"We are all characters in a story written by forces we do not understand."
Italo Svevo
"The examined life reveals not answers, but deeper questions."
Italo Svevo
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"Every person carries within them a landscape as vast as any desert."
Dino Buzzati
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"The mind is a territory more complex than any physical world."
Dino Buzzati
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"To understand the self is to enter a maze with no exit."
Dino Buzzati
D
"The self is a fiction we maintain through daily effort."
Dino Buzzati
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"To be or not to be, that's not really the question."
Luigi Pirandello
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"The absurdity of existence."
Luigi Pirandello
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"The life which is unexamined is not worth living."
Luigi Pirandello
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"We cannot escape our mythology."
Umberto Eco
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"Postmodernity is not a new age, it is a way of thinking about the present."
Umberto Eco
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"Order is a human need, but reality often defies it."
Umberto Eco
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"Semiotics is the discipline of lies."
Umberto Eco
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"Meaning is not found; it is constructed."
Umberto Eco
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"We are trapped in signs; we are made of signs."
Umberto Eco
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"We mistake complexity for depth."
Umberto Eco
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"The map is not the territory."
Umberto Eco
U
"A closed system breeds stagnation."
Umberto Eco
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"The margins hold as much truth as the center."
Umberto Eco
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"We create meaning to impose order on chaos."
Umberto Eco
U
"Identity is not fixed; it is performed daily."
Umberto Eco
U
"We are condemned to make sense of a senseless world."
Umberto Eco
U
"Signs multiply in our era; meaning becomes elusive."
Umberto Eco
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"In Sicily, we understand that fate is written long before we are born."
Giovanni Verga
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"The depths of human nature are fathomless; we only ever see the surface."
Giovanni Verga
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"The philosopher seeks not answers, but better questions."
Giosue Carducci
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"Philosophy is the art of living well through thinking clearly."
Giosue Carducci
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"Philosophy teaches us not answers, but better questions to ask."
Gabriele D'Annunzio