Philosophy Quotes
Questions about meaning, existence, and truth from thinkers who spent their lives searching for answers.
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"Philosophy seeks eternal truth."Hilda Doolittle
"We are a way for the cosmos to know itself."Kurt Vonnegut
"Everything is nothing, with a twist."Kurt Vonnegut
"The culture you live in defines who you are."Kurt Vonnegut
"No ideas but in things."William Carlos Williams
"The local is the only universal."William Carlos Williams
"A man is not a machine."William Carlos Williams
"A word is not the thing it represents."William Carlos Williams
"The philosopher and the poet speak in the same ancient language."Hart Crane
"The only authoritative answer to the question of life's meaning is that which each person creates for themselves."Allen Ginsberg
"The problem with America is that it's drunk on its own mythology."Allen Ginsberg
"Philosophy without poetry is just abstract nonsense."Allen Ginsberg
"The mind is a universe unto itself."Hilda Doolittle
"Philosophy is the art of living well."Hilda Doolittle
"The world's an orphan's home."Marianne Moore
"It is human nature to stand in the middle of the thing."Marianne Moore
"Resistance strengthens what it opposes."Marianne Moore
"We live in the description of a place and not in the place itself."Wallace Stevens
"To live in the world is to live among meanings."Wallace Stevens
"We must accept that we ourselves are fragments in an unknown composition."Wallace Stevens
"The real is not a matter of fact but a matter of choice."Wallace Stevens
"A man is a god in ruins."Wallace Stevens
"Society is always, at all moments, dead when contemplated."Wallace Stevens
"The world as we know it is our own construction."Wallace Stevens
"One lives in the mind and through the mind lives in the world."Wallace Stevens
"The world is not only the material that surrounds us but also the consciousness observing it."Wallace Stevens
"The universe is neither friendly nor unfriendly; it is indifferent."Wallace Stevens
"To perceive a thing is already to alter it."Wallace Stevens
"The mind makes what it beholds."Wallace Stevens
"Reality is the product of continuous creative effort."Wallace Stevens