Philosophy Quotes

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

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"Reason lays down its arms"
e.e. cummings
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"I believe in the cosmic kinship of all things."
Hart Crane
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"Philosophy is the art of living well."
Hart Crane
"In this life we are guests of the moment."
Kurt Vonnegut
"Tiger got to hunt, bird got to fly. Man got to sit and wonder why."
Kurt Vonnegut
"Think of a training camp for astronauts, except the course never ended, just like life."
Kurt Vonnegut
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"Among other things, you'll find that you're not the first person who was ever confused and frightened and even sickened by human behavior."
J.D. Salinger
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"I'm quite the philosopher in my own peculiar way."
J.D. Salinger
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"Philosophy is simply the attempt to think clearly about how to live well."
William Carlos Williams
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"Substance is not to be found in the body, it is in the consciousness"
Allen Ginsberg
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"All that exists is energy and desire in different forms"
Allen Ginsberg
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"The universe is an intelligent being and we are its thoughts"
Allen Ginsberg
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"The meaning of life is the experience of living itself"
Allen Ginsberg
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"Philosophy begins with wonder and continues with questioning"
Allen Ginsberg
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"The unexamined life is not worth living but also not fully lived"
Allen Ginsberg
"The world is not external to the mind."
Wallace Stevens
"The spirit's universe is the place where we live."
Wallace Stevens
"We seek nothing beyond the veil."
Wallace Stevens
"The nature of human nature is fundamental."
Wallace Stevens
"The image of the world as the image of a man."
Wallace Stevens
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"The world you see is just the world you expect to see, as you expect to see it."
Jack Kerouac
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"The beauty of religious mania is that it has the power to explain everything."
Jack Kerouac
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"I think there is something in us that wants to die, as well as something that wants to live."
Jack Kerouac
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"We're all lost now in the American darkness."
Jack Kerouac
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"The only way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the moment."
Jack Kerouac
"Language is a conspiracy against the mind."
Marianne Moore
"I wonder if writers are made or born."
Marianne Moore
"One must make a choice between being an artist and being moral."
Marianne Moore
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"I seek the flesh beneath the abstraction."
Hart Crane
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"Philosophy begins with the courage to question everything."
Hart Crane