Philosophy Quotes

Questions about meaning, existence, and truth from thinkers who spent their lives searching for answers.

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"The human capacity for self-deception is boundless."
Nikolai Gogol
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"There is no such thing as an event without meaning or something completely senseless."
Boris Pasternak
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"Consciousness is a disease."
Boris Pasternak
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"A person is, like space, mostly nothing."
Boris Pasternak
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"The philosophy of one century becomes the common sense of the next."
Boris Pasternak
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"The masses have never thirsted after truth; they turn away from evidence."
Maxim Gorky
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"Man cannot serve two masters without losing his soul."
Maxim Gorky
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"A man may be born, but in order to be born he must first die."
Maxim Gorky
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"Every person contains multitudes within themselves."
Maxim Gorky
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"The human soul is a mirror of the universe."
Ivan Turgenev
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"A man must live by his principles."
Ivan Turgenev
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"The soul is immortal; the body merely rents space."
Aleksandr Pushkin
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"The most important laws and principles for all existence are hidden."
Anton Chekhov
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"Life is a great mystery, not a problem to be solved."
Anton Chekhov
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"It is impossible to conceive of the universe without a cause."
Anton Chekhov
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"Melancholy is the luxury of those who have the leisure to feel deeply."
Mikhail Lermontov
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"The mask we wear becomes our face after enough years of wearing."
Mikhail Lermontov
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"We are all exiles in our own lives, yearning for a home we've never seen."
Mikhail Lermontov
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"We are each the author of our own tragedy, though we claim to be victims."
Mikhail Lermontov
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"Each person is a universe unto themselves, and we know only their exterior."
Mikhail Lermontov
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"The saddest people are often those with the brightest smiles."
Mikhail Lermontov
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"The world breaks everyone eventually, and those it doesn't break later."
Mikhail Lermontov
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"We are all prisoners of our own perception."
Mikhail Lermontov
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"The connection between sensations and language is the great mystery of consciousness."
Vladimir Nabokov
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"The essence of consciousness is the flow of time through it."
Vladimir Nabokov
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"We are all prisoners of our own perception."
Vladimir Nabokov
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"We are all exiles from our own consciousness."
Vladimir Nabokov
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"We are all living in a labyrinth of our own creation."
Vladimir Nabokov
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"We spend our lives running from our true selves."
Vladimir Nabokov
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"We are all susceptible to the influence of environment and circumstance."
Nikolai Gogol