Philosophy Quotes
Questions about meaning, existence, and truth from thinkers who spent their lives searching for answers.
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"Identity is something you become, not something you are born with."Austin Clarke
"Philosophy begins with questions, not answers."Austin Clarke
"I feel, therefore I am, but I don't know what I am."Fernando Pessoa
"I think, therefore I am confused."Fernando Pessoa
"I am many people; forgive me if I contradict myself."Fernando Pessoa
"The soul is a guest in the body, never the owner."Fernando Pessoa
"The universe is indifferent to our meaning-making."Fernando Pessoa
"We are all actors performing on the stage of existence, never quite sure of our lines."John Banville
"The self is not a fixed thing but a story we keep revising as we live."John Banville
"The world is a great theater, and we are all merely actors in a play we did not write."José María de Eça de Queirós
"We are all condemned to repeat the same mistakes of our ancestors."José María de Eça de Queirós
"Men build civilization to hide their true nature from themselves."José María de Eça de Queirós
"The modern world is a museum of forgotten virtues and abandoned principles."José María de Eça de Queirós
"We are all actors, and the world is our stage of careful deceptions."José María de Eça de Queirós
"The soul of a man is revealed not in his words, but in his silences."José María de Eça de Queirós
"We are slaves to our passions and call it freedom."José María de Eça de Queirós
"Every person contains multitudes; we are all contradictions."José María de Eça de Queirós
"The heart of man is a mystery that no science can fully solve."Padraig Colum
"We can distinguish the trees, and the leaves on the trees, and the veins on the leaves, but we cannot see the forest, we are inside the forest."Saramago
"The human being is a complex creature capable of both great kindness and unspeakable cruelty."Saramago
"We are all fragments of larger stories we will never fully comprehend."Saramago
"The philosopher questions everything; the fool questions nothing."Luís de Camões
"Philosophy is the art of being confused at a higher level"Patrick Kavanagh
"Everything that is not thought is nothing more than silence."Fernando Pessoa
"I think, therefore I doubt, and in doubt I am truly myself."Fernando Pessoa
"I am my own universe; everyone else is merely visiting."Fernando Pessoa
"To be modern is to be constantly uncertain."Fernando Pessoa
"We are all actors on the stage of life, playing parts we barely understand."John Banville
"The mind is a labyrinth of its own making."John Banville
"The world is text, and we are its readers and writers."John Banville