Philosophy Quotes
Questions about meaning, existence, and truth from thinkers who spent their lives searching for answers.
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"The only truth is that there is no truth."Fernando Pessoa
"I live, I exist, therefore I think about existing."Fernando Pessoa
"In each of us there are as many souls as there are contradictions."Fernando Pessoa
"Consciousness is a disease."Fernando Pessoa
"Every man is the sum total of his reactions to experience."Fernando Pessoa
"I am every person, yet I am no one."Fernando Pessoa
"A filosofia é a tentativa humana de compreender o incompreensível."Almeida Garrett
"A filosofia nos enseña a questionar e não apenas aceitar."Almeida Garrett
"Philosophy is the art of asking better questions."Padraig Colum
"Philosophy seeks the eternal in the temporal."Padraig Colum
"Memory is a kind of storytelling we do for ourselves."John Banville
"Identity is a construct we maintain through constant effort."John Banville
"Consciousness is a kind of burden we carry."John Banville
"The universe is indifferent to our suffering and joy."John Banville
"Suffering is the price of consciousness."John Banville
"The self dissolves the more we examine it."John Banville
"The universe contains no inherent meaning or purpose."John Banville
"Everything is already over before it begins."John Banville
"Philosophy is the art of asking better questions."John Banville
"Philosophy begins when we dare to question what others accept without thought."Luís de Camões
"Society is nothing more than a collection of masked individuals performing for each other."Eça de Queirós
"The philosopher seeks truth; the masses seek comfort in illusion."Eça de Queirós
"The human condition is characterized by the gap between who we are and who we wish to be."Eça de Queirós
"Philosophy offers answers to questions that have no answers."Eça de Queirós
"To be human is to be incomplete, always searching for what we lack."Saramago
"We are all searching for meaning in a world that may have none."Saramago
"We are all mirrors reflecting the world back to itself."Saramago
"We become what we practice, not what we intend."Saramago
"The true measure of a man lies not in his possessions, but in his character."Luís de Camões
"The philosopher questions the world; the poet illuminates it."Luís de Camões