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
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"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
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"Philosophy is the art of wondering about life."
Johan Christian Andersen
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"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
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"The heart is the seat of all wisdom and all folly."
Dante Gabriel Rossetti
"Philosophy without practice is mere sophistry."
Robert Browning
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"Man has no Body distinct from his Soul; for that called Body is a portion of Soul discerned by the five Senses."
William Blake
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"Mock on, Mock on Voltaire, Rousseau."
William Blake
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"God is in the details."
William Blake
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"Jesus could not do miracles, he could not control the demon."
William Blake
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"Sin is a state of discord."
William Blake
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"The ancient tradition that the world will be consumed in fire is true."
William Blake
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"Seeking for pleasure through pain is the motive of Creation."
William Blake
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"The Marriage of Heaven and Hell produces the eternal fire."
William Blake
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"We are shaped by thought; we become what we think."
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
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"The noblest work of man is to understand himself."
Alfred, Lord Tennyson
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"Philosophy is the love of wisdom eternally pursued."
Alfred, Lord Tennyson
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"The journey is more important than the destination."
Johan Christian Andersen
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"Philosophy questions, wisdom answers."
Johan Christian Andersen
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"I myself am strange and unusual"
Knut Hamsun
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"The mind creates the world we inhabit"
Knut Hamsun
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"Every moment contains the entire universe"
Knut Hamsun
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"The self is constantly being remade"
Knut Hamsun
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"The specific character of despair is precisely this: it is unaware of being despair."
Søren Kierkegaard
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"The self is a relation that relates itself to itself."
Søren Kierkegaard
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"A man may at any time do what he will, but he cannot will what he wills."
Søren Kierkegaard
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"Not only did he refuse to belong to any Church, but he was a radical outsider."
Søren Kierkegaard
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"The present generation does not think it is pious enough to say 'I am not'."
Søren Kierkegaard
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"The conclusion does not follow."
Søren Kierkegaard
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"Take away paradox from the thinker and you have a professor."
Søren Kierkegaard