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
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"Conflict is the gadfly of thought."
Søren Kierkegaard
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"Despair is a sickness unto death."
Søren Kierkegaard
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"The absurd is the only concept which I am constrained to use without defining it."
Søren Kierkegaard
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"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
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"The specific character of shame is precisely this: it is unaware of being shame."
Søren Kierkegaard
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"We are made of stardust and infinite possibility."
Dante Gabriel Rossetti
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"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
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"Existence itself is the greatest miracle."
Hans Christian Andersen
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"The universe is bound together by invisible threads."
Hans Christian Andersen
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"I have always sought to plumb the depths of the human soul."
Hans Christian Andersen
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"The philosophy of life is simple: help others."
Johan Christian Andersen
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"Every moment contains the seeds of eternity."
Johan Christian Andersen
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"I am bound by my own nature and cannot escape it."
Knut Hamsun
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"We are shaped by forces beyond our comprehension."
Knut Hamsun
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"We are all somewhat mad in our own ways."
Knut Hamsun
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"The weight of consciousness is the human burden."
Knut Hamsun
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"The human condition is fundamentally absurd."
Knut Hamsun
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"Consciousness is both our greatest gift and worst curse."
Knut Hamsun
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"What is it all but a trouble of ants in the gleam of a million million of suns?"
Alfred, Lord Tennyson
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"The modern mind is in complete disarray."
Alfred, Lord Tennyson
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"A life devoted to beauty is a life devoted to truth."
Dante Gabriel Rossetti
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"Mysteries are not necessarily miracles."
Knut Hamsun
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"The heart of a man is like the depths of the sea."
Hans Christian Andersen
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"Memory is a painter; it colors the past with whatever hues it chooses."
Hans Christian Andersen
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"The human heart is the greatest book ever written."
Hans Christian Andersen
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"The more a man denies himself, the more he shall receive from the infinite."
Søren Kierkegaard
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"A genuine human being is an unusual phenomenon."
Søren Kierkegaard