Philosophy Quotes

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

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"The boundaries which divide Life from Death are at best shadowy and vague."
Edgar Allan Poe
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"Stupidity is a capital crime, yet we all commit it."
Edgar Allan Poe
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"To observe is to exist; to think is to be real."
Edgar Allan Poe
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"In madness there exists a strange method and a startling clarity."
Edgar Allan Poe
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"A life without purpose is a life without direction."
Edgar Allan Poe
"Nothing that happens in any village is unimportant to the world."
Willa Cather
"The heart of the matter remains incomprehensible to most."
Willa Cather
"Every one has peculiarities of their own."
Louisa May Alcott
"The disappointment of life is the only true one."
Louisa May Alcott
"The only thing I worry about is that I am not worried enough."
Louisa May Alcott
"We are what our thoughts make us."
Louisa May Alcott
"The human heart is the same everywhere, though trained and modified by circumstances."
Harriet Beecher Stowe
"There are depths in every human heart that no earthly eye can measure."
Harriet Beecher Stowe
"Philosophy seeks to understand the eternal questions that perplex humanity."
James Fenimore Cooper
"Character is higher than intellect."
Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Every genius is a variation of human nature."
Ralph Waldo Emerson
"The mind's ultimate worth and reward is to transcend individual existence."
Ralph Waldo Emerson
"The universe is composed of Nature and the Soul."
Ralph Waldo Emerson
"The mass of mankind concerns itself not with the abstract but with the concrete."
Ralph Waldo Emerson
"The only sin is limiting our understanding of who we truly are."
Ralph Waldo Emerson
"The creation of a single being is the creation of the universe."
Ralph Waldo Emerson
"The fundamental truth is that all men are poets."
Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Society is always of a conspiracy against the manhood of its members."
Ralph Waldo Emerson
"The creation of the world is the creation of ourselves."
Ralph Waldo Emerson
"The world is a reflection of what is within us."
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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"The essence of philosophy is to question, to wonder, and to seek understanding of what is."
Washington Irving
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"In every person dwells the capacity for both profound good and terrible harm; character decides which prevails."
Washington Irving
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"The Admirations and Contempts, of time, are all that I esteem."
Emily Dickinson
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"The Body is a Tomb."
Emily Dickinson
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"All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream."
Edgar Allan Poe