Philosophy Quotes

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

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"We are all strangers to ourselves."
Gérard de Nerval
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"The true revolution is not political but spiritual."
Gérard de Nerval
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"The infinite is hidden within the finite."
Gérard de Nerval
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"Every person is both saint and sinner."
Gérard de Nerval
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"I have sought meaning in all things and found it nowhere."
Gérard de Nerval
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"One must be absolutely modern in one's thinking."
Arthur Rimbaud
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"The modern age demands that we become strangers to ourselves."
Arthur Rimbaud
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"Philosophy begins with wonder."
Paul Verlaine
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"The body is temporary; the work of the mind is eternal."
Victor Leconte de Lisle
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"The philosopher's task is to question what others accept."
Victor Leconte de Lisle
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"In matters of taste, there can be no argument, only revelation."
Théophile Gautier
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"The eternal struggle between passion and reason defines the human condition."
Théophile Gautier
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"The pursuit of perfection is the pursuit of the infinite."
Théophile Gautier
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"The mind is everything; what you think you become."
Alexandre Dumas, fils
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"Every man carries within him a whole world of ideas"
Guy de Maupassant
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"The world is a stage, and we are merely poor actors upon it"
Guy de Maupassant
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"Philosophy is the art of being confused at a higher level"
Guy de Maupassant
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"One must philosophize early and late."
George Sand
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"The universe is a mirror of what we believe."
George Sand
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"I am the shadow, the doubt that haunts every certainty."
Gérard de Nerval
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"Identity is a costume we wear until we forget it is one."
Gérard de Nerval
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"We are all exiles in the land of the living."
Gérard de Nerval
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"Melancholy is the mark of a sensitive spirit."
Gérard de Nerval
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"We are all performing in a theater whose director we cannot see."
Gérard de Nerval
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"We are haunted by versions of ourselves we might have become."
Gérard de Nerval
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"The mind is a labyrinth where truth hides from itself."
Gérard de Nerval
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"In every heart lies the capacity for both great love and terrible cruelty."
Victor Leconte de Lisle
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"The greatest battles are fought in the mind, not on any field."
Victor Leconte de Lisle
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"The philosopher seeks not answers, but better questions."
Victor Leconte de Lisle
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"The depths of the human heart remain the last unexplored frontier."
Victor Leconte de Lisle