Philosophy Quotes
Questions about meaning, existence, and truth from thinkers who spent their lives searching for answers.
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"Evil is not something to be debated and brokered over like some commodity."Alexander Solzhenitsyn
"Philosophy teaches us to question everything."Alexander Solzhenitsyn
"Philosophy is the pursuit of wisdom through questioning."Alexander Solzhenitsyn
"Where is the earth? Where is the sky? Where is God?"Anna Akhmatova
"Philosophy is the love of wisdom"Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson
"Just as a physician diagnoses a disease, I have sought to diagnose the condition of modern Christianity."Søren Kierkegaard
"The paradox is the passion of thought, and the thinker without the paradox is like the lover without passion."Søren Kierkegaard
"Resign yourself to the fact that certain things cannot be explained logically."Søren Kierkegaard
"The only absolute principle that can be established is the absolute impossibility of establishing absolutes."Søren Kierkegaard
"A man's deepest need is not to understand the world but to live in it."Søren Kierkegaard
"The middle class is the worst class imaginable, neither good nor beautiful."August Strindberg
"I hate humanity. I want to see it destroyed utterly."August Strindberg
"There is no such thing as chance; everything is fate."August Strindberg
"I have had the experience of being despised for my opinions, and I have also had the experience of deserving it."August Strindberg
"I am a tool in the hands of fate."August Strindberg
"I have nothing but contempt for the false modesty of the virtuous."August Strindberg
"Intelligence without goodness is wickedness."August Strindberg
"Every person carries within them the capacity for both creation and destruction."Selma Lagerlöf
"We are shaped by the stories we tell ourselves about who we are."Selma Lagerlöf
"In contemplating our own mortality, we begin to live more fully."Selma Lagerlöf
"In every person dwells an untold story of struggle and resilience."Selma Lagerlöf
"The very same things that we call evil are necessary to produce good."Henrik Ibsen
"I believe that before all else, I am a human being."Henrik Ibsen
"The paradox is that we find ourselves by losing ourselves."Henrik Ibsen
"The whole of life is symbolic because the whole of it has meaning."Boris Pasternak
"What makes all doctrines about the future meaningless and base is that they suppose that something takes precedence over man."Boris Pasternak
"Philosophy is the study of asking the right questions."Boris Pasternak
"Philosophy is awakening from the dream of the ordinary."Boris Pasternak
"Philosophy teaches us to question, not to answer definitively."Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson
"If only it were all so simple! If only there were evil people somewhere insidiously committing evil deeds, and it were necessary only to separate them from the rest of us and destroy them. But the line dividing good and evil cuts through the heart of every human being."Alexander Solzhenitsyn