Philosophy Quotes
Questions about meaning, existence, and truth from thinkers who spent their lives searching for answers.
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"Philosophy is humanity's eternal conversation with itself."Giosue Carducci
"Philosophy seeks to understand the nature of existence itself."Giovanni Boccaccio
"Philosophy examines the questions that science cannot answer."Giovanni Boccaccio
"The soul yearns for what the body cannot grasp."Ugo Foscolo
"The philosopher seeks not answers, but better questions."Ugo Foscolo
"Philosophy teaches us to question what we take for granted."Ugo Foscolo
"Philosophy is the art of asking questions that reveal the depths of our being."Francesco Petrarca
"The human heart contains depths that no philosophy can fully measure."Alessandro Manzoni
"To understand a man, you must understand his hunger."Giovanni Verga
"The heart knows truths that reason cannot reach."Giovanni Verga
"The mind is everything. What you think, you become."Petrarch
"The unexamined life is not worth living."Petrarch
"The examined life reveals our true nature."Petrarch
"The human heart is capable of both great virtue and terrible vice."Giovanni Boccaccio
"To understand the world, one must first understand human nature."Alessandro Manzoni
"Philosophy is the art of asking better questions, not providing final answers."Luigi Pirandello
"Society is built on collective agreement to ignore certain truths that would destabilize it."Luigi Pirandello
"The search for meaning is more important than any meaning we might find."Luigi Pirandello
"The burden of consciousness is knowing that we are partly responsible for the world we see."Luigi Pirandello
"Culture is the mask civilization wears to hide its true nature from itself."Luigi Pirandello
"We are all plagued by the knowledge that we are not as good as our intentions."Luigi Pirandello
"Every society creates the diseases that reveal its values and fears."Luigi Pirandello
"The examined life is often sadder than the unexamined one."Luigi Pirandello
"The mind is the noblest part of man."Francesco Petrarca
"Philosophy teaches us how to live well."Francesco Petrarca
"The end justifies the means."Niccolò Machiavelli
"A person who wishes to make a profession of good in all things must come to ruin."Niccolò Machiavelli
"It is impossible for the new prince to observe all those things by which men are considered good."Niccolò Machiavelli
"Philosophy teaches us to accept what we cannot change."Ludovico Ariosto
"Philosophy is common sense in a bad mood."Ludovico Ariosto