Philosophy Quotes

"We are shaped by our thoughts; we become what we think."

"The purpose of philosophy is to question everything."

"The path to enlightenment is through questioning."

"A man without ethics is a wild beast loosed upon this world."

"There is but one truly serious philosophical problem, and that is suicide."

"The absurd is the only concept I know that is not a philosophy."

"Thought cannot exhaust existence because existence precedes thought."

"All healthy men have thought of their own suicide."

"Life is neither good nor evil; it simply is."

"I should like to know whether the laws which govern men are the same as those which govern beasts."

"The natural law is prior to all positive laws."

"The Confessions of St. Augustine and the Meditations of Marcus Aurelius are the only psychological works of the ancients."

"Plurality must be subject to unity."

"In the state of nature there is no such thing as a crime."

"We are our choices."

"Existence precedes essence."

"Consciousness is a being such that in its being, its being is in question insofar as this being implies a being other than itself."

"To choose is to affirm the value of what we choose."

"What do we mean by saying that existence precedes essence? We mean that man first of all exists."

"I exist; this simple statement is the beginning of all philosophy."

"When we say that man chooses himself, we mean that every one of us chooses himself."

"Philosophy begins with radical doubt and ends with commitment."

"To be a woman is to be condemned to justify one's existence perpetually."

"A man is in general better pleased when he has a good dinner upon his table than when his wife talks Greek."

"Consciousness is a being such that in its being, its being is in question insofar as this being implies a being other than itself."

"Being a woman has only recently stopped being a definition of cosmic inferiority."

"The oppressed will always believe the worst about themselves until they learn to question the oppressor's narrative."

"Nostalgia is not a virtue; it is an escape from the present."

"The greatest tragedy is not to be poor but to have been robbed of one's own agency."

"One cannot claim freedom and simultaneously demand that others remain enslaved."