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