Philosophy Quotes
Questions about meaning, existence, and truth from thinkers who spent their lives searching for answers.
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"A truly great man never puts away his childishness."Knut Hamsun
"To be nobody but yourself in a world which is doing its best to make you everybody else is to fight the hardest battle any human being can fight."Knut Hamsun
"Philosophy is the art of wondering about life."Johan Christian Andersen
"For this is the hard law of the world that it always weighs one side of a man's character against the other."Dante Gabriel Rossetti
"The heart is the seat of all wisdom and all folly."Dante Gabriel Rossetti
"Philosophy without practice is mere sophistry."Robert Browning
"Man has no Body distinct from his Soul; for that called Body is a portion of Soul discerned by the five Senses."William Blake
"Mock on, Mock on Voltaire, Rousseau."William Blake
"God is in the details."William Blake
"Jesus could not do miracles, he could not control the demon."William Blake
"Sin is a state of discord."William Blake
"The ancient tradition that the world will be consumed in fire is true."William Blake
"Seeking for pleasure through pain is the motive of Creation."William Blake
"The Marriage of Heaven and Hell produces the eternal fire."William Blake
"We are shaped by thought; we become what we think."Elizabeth Barrett Browning
"The noblest work of man is to understand himself."Alfred, Lord Tennyson
"Philosophy is the love of wisdom eternally pursued."Alfred, Lord Tennyson
"The journey is more important than the destination."Johan Christian Andersen
"Philosophy questions, wisdom answers."Johan Christian Andersen
"I myself am strange and unusual"Knut Hamsun
"The mind creates the world we inhabit"Knut Hamsun
"Every moment contains the entire universe"Knut Hamsun
"The self is constantly being remade"Knut Hamsun
"The specific character of despair is precisely this: it is unaware of being despair."Søren Kierkegaard
"The self is a relation that relates itself to itself."Søren Kierkegaard
"A man may at any time do what he will, but he cannot will what he wills."Søren Kierkegaard
"Not only did he refuse to belong to any Church, but he was a radical outsider."Søren Kierkegaard
"The present generation does not think it is pious enough to say 'I am not'."Søren Kierkegaard
"The conclusion does not follow."Søren Kierkegaard
"Take away paradox from the thinker and you have a professor."Søren Kierkegaard