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
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"Men will always be mad, and those who think they can cure them are the maddest of all."
Voltaire
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"Wonder is the foundation of all philosophy, inquiry its progress, ignorance its end."
Voltaire
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"Obscurity is the veil of the Divine."
Stéphane Mallarmé
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"The perfect crime is the one nobody suspects."
Stéphane Mallarmé
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"The void fascinates us."
Stéphane Mallarmé
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"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
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"The supreme being is not outside the world; he is the world itself."
Denis Diderot
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"The most dangerous madness is to see life as it is and not as it should be."
Denis Diderot
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"Every person contains within them an entire universe of thoughts and experiences."
Denis Diderot
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"The philosopher's task is not to provide answers but to illuminate questions."
Denis Diderot
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"The natural state of humans is not obedience but questioning."
Denis Diderot
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"The soul of man is not bound by the laws of nature but by the laws of reason."
Denis Diderot
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"A man's character is revealed not by his words, but by his deeds."
Pierre Corneille
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"Philosophy teaches us to question what others accept without thought."
Pierre Corneille
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"Philosophy liberates the mind from the chains of unexamined belief."
Pierre Corneille
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"Man differs from the animals only in one respect—he is capable of becoming virtuous."
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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"The more I reflect upon things, the more I am persuaded of their unity."
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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"To live without philosophy is to live without wisdom."
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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"All that we see is but a shadow cast by things unseen."
Molière
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"The poor man teaches us more than all the philosophers combined."
Molière
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"The human soul is an infinite mystery waiting to be explored."
Molière
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"In the theater of life, each man plays a part assigned to him by fate."
Jean Racine
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"Philosophy is the art of asking better questions rather than finding final answers."
Jean Racine