Philosophy Quotes

"If you're treated a certain way you become a certain kind of person. If certain things are described to you as being real they are real."

"The role of the artist is to ask questions, not to necessarily answer them."

"One goes through the world with a set of assumptions."

"All of us contain multitudes. We are not simple creatures."

"The raw materials of the world belong to all of us, but how we use them defines us."

"Identity is no simple matter; it is always a negotiation between self and society."

"The search for meaning is as fundamental as the search for bread."

"Philosophy begins in wonder and ends in responsibility."

"Philosophy is the art of living deliberately and consciously."

"The essential American soul is hard, isolate, stoic, and a killer."

"A man's character is his fate."

"There is an aristocracy of the sensitive. The vulgar in the fullest sense of the word have always called them troublemakers."

"Hunger is a more interesting problem than you are, or I am."

"Human nature is the same everywhere; it is always capable of being moved by the same causes."

"Philosophy begins with the willingness to question everything, including our questions."

"Meaning is not found; it is created through our choices and actions."

"Philosophy teaches us to question, and questioning teaches us to grow."

"The most important thing is to understand that we are all trapped in the same web of existence, and our only salvation is in recognizing our common humanity."

"The greatest revolutions begin in the mind before they reach the streets."

"I write to ask questions that society would prefer remain unasked."

"I have learned that the meek do not inherit the earth; the earth inherits them."

"The struggle for identity is the struggle for humanity itself."

"To be human is to carry contradictions within oneself."

"The search for meaning is the search for one's place in the world."

"The present was an egg laid by the past that had the future inside its shell."

"You must learn to live with contradiction."

"Philosophy teaches us to question everything."

"The pattern of a man's life seems clearer to someone who is watching it from outside."

"The mind cannot accept that it does not exist."

"We are born into a world of confusion and live our lives trying to make sense of it."