Philosophy Quotes

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

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"Saint-Simonism is a religion without a God."
Stendhal
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"As soon as you think of something, you are no longer thinking of it."
Stendhal
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"The intelligent are to the intelligentsia what a man is to a woman."
Stendhal
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"Every person carries a world within themselves."
Alexandre Dumas, fils
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"Philosophy is the search for wisdom."
Alexandre Dumas, fils
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"The greatest luxury is the absence of necessity."
Théophile Gautier
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"Every shadow owes its existence to light."
Théophile Gautier
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"The journey is more important than the destination."
Théophile Gautier
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"The universe speaks to those who listen with their hearts."
Théophile Gautier
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"Every sorrow teaches us something; without sorrow, we would be empty."
George Sand
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"The greatest minds are capable of the greatest vices as well as of the greatest virtues."
George Sand
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"We are all pilgrims seeking that which we have already lost."
Gérard de Nerval
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"The soul speaks in metaphors that the mind struggles to comprehend."
Gérard de Nerval
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"We are all actors in a play written by forces beyond our understanding."
Gérard de Nerval
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"Man is a creation of desire, not a creation of need."
Guy de Maupassant
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"There is no such thing as chance; everything is fate."
Guy de Maupassant
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"Philosophy begins with the question 'why?'"
Guy de Maupassant
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"Suffering refines the soul like fire refines gold."
Guy de Maupassant
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"Philosophy is the art of sophisticated questioning."
Guy de Maupassant
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"I declare, the absurdity is gross."
Mary Wollstonecraft
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"I perceive that those things which possess the power of living possess also the power of dying."
Mary Wollstonecraft
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"Arguments drawn from the beautiful tropez of nature are fallacious."
Mary Wollstonecraft
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"I do not believe in God, though I believe in the goodness of action."
Mary Wollstonecraft
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"The female philosophers have been the pioneers of a new rationality."
Mary Wollstonecraft
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"We are what we remember, nothing more."
Gérard de Nerval
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"The mind is a labyrinth of its own making."
Gérard de Nerval
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"We are all strangers to ourselves in some way."
Gérard de Nerval
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"The world demands much of those who dare to think differently."
Victor Leconte de Lisle
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"The heart knows mysteries that reason cannot penetrate."
Victor Leconte de Lisle
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"The intellectual life is a conversation across the centuries."
Victor Leconte de Lisle