Philosophy Quotes

"The greatest deception is the one we practice upon ourselves."

"We condemn in others what we practice ourselves."

"All human striving is ultimately futile."

"The hand of fate guides us whether we will it or not."

"The voice of reason is often drowned by passion's cry."

"The human condition is a mixture of tragedy and farce."

"Man can get used to anything, the scoundrel"

"I think the devil doesn't exist, but man has created him"

"The more I love humanity in general, the less I love man in particular"

"A man may take a very selfish nature in the strictest sense of the word"

"I love the human, but I cannot stand mankind"

"Consciousness is a disease"

"What is sin? A word without substance"

"I could never understand how one can love one's neighbors"

"I am tormented by an unresolved question"

"You must understand that a person is not just one thing"

"What if something very obvious to me is completely impossible to someone else"

"In our time, the most dangerous dogma is not religion but the arrogance of reason."

"Philosophy asks the questions that science cannot answer through measurement."

"Philosophy is the art of asking questions that matter."

"Philosophy begins with wonder at the world's mysteries."

"Passion without thought is chaos; thought without passion is emptiness."

"Every person contains multitudes they never discover."

"The mind is a prison we build for ourselves."

"We are made of contradictions—that is what makes us human."

"We are defined not by what we do, but why we do it."

"Philosophy begins where comfort ends."

"We are all fragments of something once whole."

"In Russia, everyone has their own particular path to redemption."

"To understand Russia, one must first understand the Russian soul."