Philosophy Quotes
Questions about meaning, existence, and truth from thinkers who spent their lives searching for answers.
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"Either/or is not the only choice before us."Søren Kierkegaard
"Conflict is the gadfly of thought."Søren Kierkegaard
"Despair is a sickness unto death."Søren Kierkegaard
"The absurd is the only concept which I am constrained to use without defining it."Søren Kierkegaard
"A person may wish to be rid of an uneasy consciousness, but no one can wish to be rid of it without uneasiness."Søren Kierkegaard
"The specific character of shame is precisely this: it is unaware of being shame."Søren Kierkegaard
"We are made of stardust and infinite possibility."Dante Gabriel Rossetti
"What we resist persists; what we accept transforms."Dante Gabriel Rossetti
"Philosophy begins in wonder and ends in understanding."Robert Browning
"Philosophy is the art of living well and dying well."Robert Browning
"Existence itself is the greatest miracle."Hans Christian Andersen
"The universe is bound together by invisible threads."Hans Christian Andersen
"I have always sought to plumb the depths of the human soul."Hans Christian Andersen
"The philosophy of life is simple: help others."Johan Christian Andersen
"Every moment contains the seeds of eternity."Johan Christian Andersen
"I am bound by my own nature and cannot escape it."Knut Hamsun
"We are shaped by forces beyond our comprehension."Knut Hamsun
"We are all somewhat mad in our own ways."Knut Hamsun
"The weight of consciousness is the human burden."Knut Hamsun
"The human condition is fundamentally absurd."Knut Hamsun
"Consciousness is both our greatest gift and worst curse."Knut Hamsun
"What is it all but a trouble of ants in the gleam of a million million of suns?"Alfred, Lord Tennyson
"The modern mind is in complete disarray."Alfred, Lord Tennyson
"A life devoted to beauty is a life devoted to truth."Dante Gabriel Rossetti
"Mysteries are not necessarily miracles."Knut Hamsun
"The heart of a man is like the depths of the sea."Hans Christian Andersen
"Memory is a painter; it colors the past with whatever hues it chooses."Hans Christian Andersen
"The human heart is the greatest book ever written."Hans Christian Andersen
"The more a man denies himself, the more he shall receive from the infinite."Søren Kierkegaard
"A genuine human being is an unusual phenomenon."Søren Kierkegaard