Philosophy Quotes
Questions about meaning, existence, and truth from thinkers who spent their lives searching for answers.
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"The infinite is a mystery bestowed upon us by the Almighty."Voltaire
"Men will always be mad, and those who think they can cure them are the maddest of all."Voltaire
"Wonder is the foundation of all philosophy, inquiry its progress, ignorance its end."Voltaire
"Obscurity is the veil of the Divine."Stéphane Mallarmé
"The perfect crime is the one nobody suspects."Stéphane Mallarmé
"The void fascinates us."Stéphane Mallarmé
"Philosophy is the art of asking better questions."Stéphane Mallarmé
"I passionately hate ideas of redemption."Charles Baudelaire
"The universe is a kind of thought."Charles Baudelaire
"To debauch means to corrupt, but what if you are already corrupt?"Charles Baudelaire
"The whole world of matter is nothing but a dream of God."Charles Baudelaire
"Evil is performed without effort, naturally, fatally; goodness is always the product of some art."Charles Baudelaire
"The infinite is present in every finite thing."Charles Baudelaire
"The supreme being is not outside the world; he is the world itself."Denis Diderot
"The most dangerous madness is to see life as it is and not as it should be."Denis Diderot
"Every person contains within them an entire universe of thoughts and experiences."Denis Diderot
"The philosopher's task is not to provide answers but to illuminate questions."Denis Diderot
"The natural state of humans is not obedience but questioning."Denis Diderot
"The soul of man is not bound by the laws of nature but by the laws of reason."Denis Diderot
"A man's character is revealed not by his words, but by his deeds."Pierre Corneille
"Philosophy teaches us to question what others accept without thought."Pierre Corneille
"Philosophy liberates the mind from the chains of unexamined belief."Pierre Corneille
"Man differs from the animals only in one respect—he is capable of becoming virtuous."Jean-Jacques Rousseau
"The more I reflect upon things, the more I am persuaded of their unity."Jean-Jacques Rousseau
"To live without philosophy is to live without wisdom."Jean-Jacques Rousseau
"All that we see is but a shadow cast by things unseen."Molière
"The poor man teaches us more than all the philosophers combined."Molière
"The human soul is an infinite mystery waiting to be explored."Molière
"In the theater of life, each man plays a part assigned to him by fate."Jean Racine
"Philosophy is the art of asking better questions rather than finding final answers."Jean Racine