Philosophy Quotes

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

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"What we think, we become; what we become, we shape the world."
Christina Rossetti
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"The philosophy of one age becomes the common sense of the next."
Percy Bysshe Shelley
"The mind is a universe unto itself."
Aphra Behn
"To understand mankind, one must first understand the human heart."
Eliza Haywood
"In every heart dwells both angel and demon; which prevails depends on our will."
Eliza Haywood
"Human nature is a labyrinth; few truly know themselves within it."
Eliza Haywood
"In the theater of life, we are both actors and audience."
Eliza Haywood
"The measure of a person is not their achievements but their choices."
Eliza Haywood
"The universe is indifferent to our suffering and apathetic to our joy."
Eliza Haywood
"The heart's contradictions are the proof of its humanity."
Eliza Haywood
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"The world is made up for the most part of fools and knaves."
Jonathan Swift
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"The very minute a notion of duty enters the mind, it is already losing ground."
Jonathan Swift
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"Reasoning will never make a Man correct an ill Opinion, which by Reasoning he never acquired."
Jonathan Swift
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"A man may be so much of a cynic as to think the worst of others, but few are such philosophers as to think the best of themselves."
Jonathan Swift
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"There is something at work in my soul which I do not understand."
Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
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"In every heart there is a chamber of secrets."
Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
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"To understand humanity, one must understand its flaws."
Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
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"Every person has the capacity for both good and evil."
Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
"Philosophy teaches us to question what others accept blindly."
Eliza Haywood
"In the garden of life, even weeds have their purpose."
Christina Rossetti
"Philosophy is the art of living well."
Christina Rossetti
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"A man may be so much occupied in sharpening his tools that he neglects to use them."
Samuel Johnson
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"To think is to be alive; to cease thinking is to be dead."
Samuel Johnson
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"The question about the ultimate Ground of Being lies at the heart of all philosophy."
Samuel Johnson
"Man, however great, is but dust and ashes."
Aphra Behn
"We are made all of frailties and imperfections."
Aphra Behn
"The mind knows no difference between a king and a beggar."
Aphra Behn
"The heart's desires are often contrary to reason."
Aphra Behn
"The body ages but the spirit remains eternally young."
Aphra Behn
"The soul recognizes what the mind cannot explain."
Aphra Behn