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