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