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150 Philosophy Quotes About All The Important Things

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As my old philosophy professor once told me, even if you hate philosophy, that is, in fact, also philosophizing. Boy, I truly wasn’t too excited about that! However, some years passed, and I understood what he meant by that - philosophy is always there, whether you wish for it or not. And, thinking of it, there’s probably no other way of trying to explain the unexplainable than by using principles of philosophy where some exquisitely insightful person has put all your intangible and incoherent thoughts into one sentence, at least somewhat explaining humans, life, and all the burning questions stemming out of these topics. So, here we are, with our list of the best philosophy quotes that might spark your interest in this science or rekindle the fire you already have for it.

Surely, it is best to start your journey of understanding things with the words of the great philosophers like Nietzsche, Bertrand Russell, and Socrates. These are all names you will surely find mentioned in this article. However, not only philosophers have had some insights into the universe, so you might also expect to find some unexpected names like Frank Zappa, Albert Einstein, and Carl Sagan, who also contributed to the world of philosophy. All in all, it is a pretty comprehensive collection of philosophy quotes, whether you’re just a newbie or a bona fide scholar.

So, prepare to be blown away by these clever quotes you’re about to find just a scroll below! Once you are there, vote for the deep quotes that gave you something to think about, and share this article with your friends, too!

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#1

Albert Einstein quote on universe “Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe.” ― Albert Einstein

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Cubbypotato 2 years ago

Hahahaha good job Albert

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#2

“The only thing I know is that I know nothing.” – Socrates

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Kookamunga 2 years ago

The key to wisdom, my friends!

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#3

“The cosmos is within us. We are made of star-stuff. We are a way for the universe to know itself.” ― Carl Sagan

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Josh 2 years ago

I gotta figure out the best font for this to be a tattoo.

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#4

Mahatma Gandhi quote on the power of love “The day the power of love overrules the love of power, the world will know peace.” ― Mahatma Gandhi

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Bhushan Kulkarni 2 years ago

Gandhi quotes https://youtu.be/knXYvVXInPk

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#5

“The best revenge is not to be like your enemy.” ― Marcus Aurelius

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Zophra 2 years ago

Nice one! Never heard of this one.

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#6

“Empty your mind, be formless. Shapeless, like water. If you put water into a cup, it becomes the cup. You put water into a bottle and it becomes the bottle. You put it in a teapot, it becomes the teapot. Now, water can flow or it can crash. Be water, my friend.” ― Bruce Lee

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Zophra 2 years ago

All I could think of is water in the toliet bowl. Now, water can be flushed...

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#7

“Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle.” ― Socrates

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Bibmibap 2 years ago

Not from Socrates.

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#8

Socrates quote on knowledge and ignorance “There is only one good - knowledge, and one evil - ignorance.” – Socrates

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#9

“The easy confidence with which I know another man's religion is folly teaches me to suspect that my own is also.” ― Mark Twain

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Cubbypotato 2 years ago

I would not interfere with any one's religion, either to strengthen it or to weaken it

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#10

“Be the change that you wish to see in the world.” ― Mahatma Gandhi

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Jay Mason 2 years ago

As possible, yes

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#11

“Without music, life would be a mistake.” ― Friedrich Nietzsche

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TEMEKO ROMANIC 9 months ago

This is timeless 🥰

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#12

Martin Heidegger quote about errors “He who thinks great thoughts, often makes great errors.” – Martin Heidegger

14points

#13

“You are an aperture through which the universe is looking at and exploring itself.” ― Alan Watts

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#14

“Never let your sense of morals prevent you from doing what is right.” ― Isaac Asimov

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#15

“We are addicted to our thoughts. We cannot change anything if we cannot change our thinking.” ― Santosh Kalwar

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#16

Oscar Wilde quote on morality “Morality is simply the attitude we adopt towards people we personally dislike.” ― Oscar Wilde

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Jay Mason 2 years ago

Thoughtful, isn't it?

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#17

“The unexamined life is not worth living.” – Socrates

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Jay Mason 2 years ago

Something like that

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#18

“We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.” – Aristotle

13points

#19

“There is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so.” ― William Shakespear

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APL 2 years ago

*Shakespeare

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#20

Jean-Jacques Rousseau quote about freedom “Man is born free, but is everywhere in chains.” – Jean-Jacques Rousseau

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Josh 2 years ago

Therefore streaking is not Public nudity, it's personal liberation.

1point

#21

“If you understand others you are smart. If you understand yourself you are illuminated. If you overcome others you are powerful. If you overcome yourself you have strength. If you know how to be satisfied you are rich. If you can act with vigor, you have a will. If you don't lose your objectives you can be long-lasting. If you die without loss, you are eternal.” ― Lao Tzu

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Luigi Felici 2 years ago

Absolutely

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#22

“When another blames you or hates you, or people voice similar criticisms, go to their souls, penetrate inside and see what sort of people they are. You will realize that there is no need to be racked with anxiety that they should hold any particular opinion about you.” ― Marcus Aurelius

12points

Jay Mason 2 years ago

If possible but do not assume. Worth trying but dont rationalize

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#23

“You're not to be so blind with patriotism that you can't face reality. Wrong is wrong, no matter who does it or says it.” ― Malcolm X

11points

#24

Plato quote about price indifference “The price good men pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men.” ― Plato

11points

#25

“A concept is a brick. It can be used to build a courthouse of reason. Or it can be thrown through the window.” ― Gilles Deleuze

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#26

“Man will never be free until the last king is strangled with the entrails of the last priest.” – Denis Diderot

11points

#27

“The flame that burns twice as bright burns half as long.” ― Lao Tzu

11points

#28

Noam Chomsky quote about curiosity “I was never aware of any other option but to question everything.” ― Noam Chomsky

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Luigi Felici 2 years ago

Self-teaching

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#29

“One, remember to look up at the stars and not down at your feet. Two, never give up work. Work gives you meaning and purpose and life is empty without it. Three, if you are lucky enough to find love, remember it is there and don't throw it away.” ― Stephen Hawking

10points

#30

“Fantasy is escapist, and that is its glory. If a soldier is imprisioned by the enemy, don't we consider it his duty to escape? If we value the freedom of mind and soul, if we're partisans of liberty, then it's our plain duty to escape, and to take as many people with us as we can!” ― J.R.R. Tolkien

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#31

“Science is not only compatible with spirituality; it is a profound source of spirituality.” ― Carl Sagan

10points

#32

Confucius quote about complexity of life “Life is really simple, but we insist on making it complicated.” ― Confucius

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#33

“The true man wants two things: danger and play. For that reason he wants woman, as the most dangerous plaything.” ― Freidrich Neitzsche

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TrashIsGaming404 2 years ago

That one din't age well

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#34

“Do not go gentle into that good night,
Old age should burn and rave at close of day;
Rage, rage against the dying of the light.” ― Dylan Thomas

10points

#35

“Happiness is not an ideal of reason but of imagination.” – Immanuel Kant

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#36

Søren Kierkegaard quote about life “Life must be understood backward. But it must be lived forward.” – Søren Kierkegaard

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#37

“You can discover more about a person in an hour of play than in a year of conversation.” – Plato

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#38

“I would never die for my beliefs because I might be wrong.” – Bertrand Russell

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Cwc Connie 2 years ago

I hope I would die to fight antisemitism. Fight for my children and christianity.

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#39

“The greater the difficulty, the more glory in surmounting it.” – Epicurus

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#40

René Descartes quote on truth “If you would be a real seeker after truth, it is necessary that at least once in your life you doubt, as far as possible, all things.” – René Descartes

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#41

“I can control my passions and emotions if I can understand their nature.” – Spinoza

10points

#42

“Freedom is secured not by the fulfilling of one's desires, but by the removal of desire.” – Epictetus

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Luigi Felici 2 years ago

Buddha complements

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#43

“One of the penalties of refusing to participate in politics is that you end up being governed by your inferiors.” ― Plato

10points

#44

Epictetus quote on philosophy “Don't explain your philosophy. Embody it.” ― Epictetus

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Scott Crowell 2 years ago

Let your actions define you! The choice is yours

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#45

“On the whole human beings want to be good, but not too good, and not quite all the time.” ― George Orwell

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#46

“You talk when you cease to be at peace with your thoughts.” ― Kahlil Gibran

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Scott Crowell 2 years ago

That's my Ex-wife blah blah blah blah. Sky's too blue. Blah.

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#47

“You do not write your life with words... You write it with actions. What you think is not important. It is only important what you do.” ― Patrick Ness

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#48

Douglas Adams quote about time “Time is an illusion. Lunchtime doubly so.” ― Douglas Adams

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#49

“A truth that's told with bad intent beats all the lies you can invent.” ― William Blake

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Luigi Felici 2 years ago

Smart guy

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#50

“There is but one truly serious philosophical problem, and that is the question of whether to live.” – Albert Camus

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#51

“This is patently absurd; but whoever wishes to become a philosopher must learn not to be frightened by absurdities.” – Bertrand Russell

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#52

Ludwig Wittgenstein quote about philosophy “Philosophy is a battle against the bewitchment of our intelligence by means of language.” – Ludwig Wittgenstein

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#53

“Things alter for the worse spontaneously, if they be not altered for the better designedly.” – Francis Bacon

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Luigi Felici 2 years ago

Murphy copycat?

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#54

“Morality is not the doctrine of how we may make ourselves happy, but of how we may make ourselves worthy of happiness.” – Immanuel Kant

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#55

“It is one thing to show a man that he is in error, and another to put him in possession of truth.” – John Locke

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#56

Karl Marx quote about philosophers “The philosophers have only interpreted the world, in various ways. The point, however, is to change it.” ― Karl Marx

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#57

"There is no easy way from the earth to the stars.” ― Seneca

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Luigi Felici 2 years ago

Tell it to Musk

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#58

“The eye sees only what the mind is prepared to comprehend.” ― Robertson Davies

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#59

“What you are is God's gift to you, what you become is your gift to God.” ― Hans Urs von Balthasar

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Luigi Felici 2 years ago

Mother god

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#60

Niccolò Machiavelli quote on intelligence “The first method for estimating the intelligence of a ruler is to look at the men he has around him.” ― Niccolò Machiavelli

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#61

“Man is always prey to his truths. Once he has admitted them, he cannot free himself from them.” ― Albert Camus

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Luigi Felici 2 years ago

Scary but very possibile

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#62

“I have learned to seek my happiness by limiting my desires, rather than in attempting to satisfy them.” — John Stuart Mill

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Luigi Felici 2 years ago

Buddha rules again

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#63

“Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed, citizens can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has.” ― Margaret Mead

8points

#64

Albert Camus quote on humanity “Man is the only creature who refuses to be what he is.” ― Albert Camus

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Luigi Felici 2 years ago

We know for we are

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#65

“Simplicity, patience, compassion. These three are your greatest treasures. Simple in actions and thoughts, you return to the source of being. Patient with both friends and enemies, you accord with the way things are. Compassionate toward yourself, you reconcile all beings in the world.” ― Lao Tzu

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#66

“Trust yourself. You know more than you think you do.” ― Benjamin Spock

8points

Ewan McInnes 2 years ago

For most people, I think it's the opposite

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#67

“Without deviation from the norm, progress is not possible.” ― Frank Zappa

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#68

D.H. Lawrence quote about woman's lives “A woman has to live her life, or live to repent not having lived it.” ― D.H. Lawrence

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Karmijn van Bohemen 2 years ago

I don 't know who this is but I bet it's a man. If so I will bring out my femenist hat and ask him about certain events in the US

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#69

“The reasonable man adapts himself to the world: the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man.” ― George Bernard Shaw

8points

#70

“Maybe everyone can live beyond what they're capable of.” ― Markus Zusak

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#71

“I cannot teach anybody anything. I can only make them think.” ― Socrates

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#72

Lao Tzu quote on knowledge “Those who know do not speak. Those who speak do not know.” ― Lao Tzu

8points

#73

“Grown-ups never understand anything by themselves, and it is tiresome for children to be always and forever explaining things to them.” ― Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

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Scott Crowell 2 years ago

I highly doubt this. My daughter is constantly explaining things to me.

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#74

“Tiger got to hunt, bird got to fly;
Man got to sit and wonder 'why, why, why?'
Tiger got to sleep, bird got to land;
Man got to tell himself he understand.” ― Kurt Vonnegut

8points

#75

“It is not true that people stop pursuing dreams because they grow old, they grow old because they stop pursuing dreams.” ― Gabriel García Márquez

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#76

“Be like water making its way through cracks. Do not be assertive, but adjust to the object, and you shall find a way around or through it. If nothing within you stays rigid, outward things will disclose themselves.” ― Bruce Lee

8points

#77

Jose Marti quote on duty “The first duty of a man is to think for himself.” ― Jose Marti

8points

#78

“Time is a game played beautifully by children.” ― Heraclitus

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Luigi Felici 2 years ago

Heraclitus was a genius

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#79

“The greatest happiness of the greatest number is the foundation of morals and legislation.” – Jeremy Bentham

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#80

“One cannot conceive anything so strange and so implausible that it has not already been said by one philosopher or another.” – René Descartes

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#81

James Baldwin quote about home “Perhaps home is not a place but simply an irrevocable condition.” ― James Baldwin

8points

#82

“Man is a mystery. It needs to be unravelled, and if you spend your whole life unravelling it, don't say that you've wasted time. I am studying that mystery because I want to be a human being.” ― Fyodor Dostoevsky

8points

#83

“Happiness consists in frequent repetition of pleasure.” ― Arthur Schopenhauer

8points

#84

“The opposite of love is not hate, it's indifference. The opposite of art is not ugliness, it's indifference. The opposite of faith is not heresy, it's indifference. And the opposite of life is not death, it's indifference.” ― Elie Wiesel

7points

Luigi Felici 2 years ago

Call for attention

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#85

“Go to heaven for the climate and hell for the company.” ― Benjamin Franklin Wade

7points

#86

Nicolas Chamfort quote about laugh “A day without laughter is a day wasted.” ― Nicolas Chamfort

7points

#87

“Have you ever noticed how ‘What the hell’ is always the right decision to make?” ― Terry Johnson

7points

#88

“If a cluttered desk is a sign of a cluttered mind, of what, then, is an empty desk a sign?” ― Laurence J. Peter

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#89

“We are all atheists about most of the gods that humanity has ever believed in. Some of us just go one god further.” ― Richard Dawkins

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#90

Eckhart Tolle quote about the past “The past has no power over the present moment.” ― Eckhart Tolle

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APL 2 years ago

Cause and effect says otherwise

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#91

“It is easy in the world to live after the world's opinion; it is easy in solitude to live after our own; but the great man is he who in the midst of the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude.” ― Ralph Waldo Emerson

7points

#92

“An intellectual? Yes. And never deny it. An intellectual is someone whose mind watches itself. I like this, because I am happy to be both halves, the watcher and the watched. "Can they be brought together?" This is a practical question. We must get down to it. "I despise intelligence" really means: "I cannot bear my doubts.” ― Albert Camus

7points

#93

“Do not train a child to learn by force or harshness; but direct them to it by what amuses their minds, so that you may be better able to discover with accuracy the peculiar bent of the genius of each.” ― Plato

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#94

Antoine de Saint-Exupéry quote the reality of life “Well, I must endure the presence of a few caterpillars if I wish to become acquainted with the butterflies.” ― Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

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Luigi Felici 2 years ago

Take it or leave it

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#95

“A serious and good philosophical work could be written consisting entirely of jokes.” ― Ludwig Wittgenstein

7points

#96

“I don’t know what’s worse: to not know what you are and be happy, or to become what you’ve always wanted to be, and feel alone.” ― Daniel Keyes

7points

#97

“The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing.” ― Albert Einstein

7points

#98

“Sometimes I lie awake at night and I ask, "Is life a multiple choice test or is it a true or false test?"
Then a voice comes to me out of the dark and says, "We hate to tell you this but life is a thousand word essay.” ― Charles M. Schulz

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#99

“It's not all bad. Heightened self-consciousness, apartness, an inability to join in, physical shame and self-loathing — they are not all bad. Those devils have been my angels. Without them I would never have disappeared into language, literature, the mind, laughter and all the mad intensities that made and unmade me.” ― Stephen Fry

7points

#100

Friedrich Nietzsche quote about God “I would believe only in a God that knows how to dance.” ― Friedrich Nietzsche

7points

#101

“Man suffers only because he takes seriously what the gods made for fun.” ― Alan Wilson Watts

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Libstak 2 years ago

I am seriously at a place where this totally makes the most sense to me in my world view.

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#102

“It is an ironic habit of human beings to run faster when they have lost their way.” ― Rollo May

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#103

“Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them; for these only gave them life, those the art of living well.” ― Aristotle

7points

#104

“God is dead! He remains dead! And we have killed him.” – Friedrich Nietzsche

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#105

John Locke quote about knowledge and experience “No man's knowledge here can go beyond his experience.” – John Locke

7points

#106

“It is undesirable to believe a proposition when there is no ground whatever for supposing it true.” – Bertrand Russell

7points

#107

“Only one man ever understood me, and he didn’t understand me.” – G. W. F. Hegel

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#108

“Metaphysics is a dark ocean without shores or lighthouse, strewn with many a philosophic wreck.” – Immanuel Kant

7points

#109

“He who is unable to live in society, or who has no need because he is sufficient for himself, must be either a beast or a god.” – Aristotle

7points

#110

Friedrich Nietzsche quote about God and a man “Is man merely a mistake of God's? Or God merely a mistake of man's?” – Friedrich Nietzsche

7points

#111

“If men were born free, they would, so long as they remained free, form no conception of good and evil.” – Baruch Spinoza

7points

APL 2 years ago

Erm...more context needed because this sounds like bollocks.

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#112

“That man is wisest who, like Socrates, realizes that his wisdom is worthless.” – Plato

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#113

“It is wrong always, everywhere and for everyone, to believe anything upon insufficient evidence.” – W. K. Clifford

7points

#114

John Locke quote about good and evil “Good and evil, reward and punishment, are the only motives to a rational creature.” – John Locke

7points

Luigi Felici 2 years ago

That's why dogs are rational

0points

#115

“To do as one would be done by, and to love one's neighbor as oneself, constitute the ideal perfection of utilitarian morality.” – John Stuart Mill

7points

#116

“Expect everything, I always say, and the unexpected never happens.” ― Norton Juster

7points

Libstak 2 years ago

Where is the fun in that?

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#117

“For, after all, how do we know that two and two make four? Or that the force of gravity works? Or that the past is unchangeable? If both the past and the external world exist only in the mind, and if the mind itself is controllable – what then?” ― George Orwell

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#118

“I know that pain is the most important thing in the universes. Greater than survival, greater than love, greater even than the beauty it brings about. For without pain, there can be no pleasure. Without sadness, there can be no happiness. Without misery there can be no beauty. And without these, life is endless, hopeless, doomed and damned.” ― Harlan Ellison

7points

#119

“People know what they do; frequently they know why they do what they do; but what they don't know is what what they do does.” ― Michel Foucault

7points

Luigi Felici 2 years ago

Consequences

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#120

Mahatma Gandhi quote about hapiness “Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony.” — Mahatma Gandhi

7points

#121

“We have to dare to be ourselves, however frightening or strange that self may prove to be.” ― May Sarton

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#122

“A human being is a part of the whole called by us universe, a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and feeling as something separated from the rest, a kind of optical delusion of his consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest to us. Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty.” ― Albert Einstein

6points

#123

“Think left and think right and think low and think high. Oh, the thinks you can think up if only you try!” ― Dr. Seuss

6points

#124

“The most beautiful experience we can have is the mysterious. It is the fundamental emotion that stands at the cradle of true art and true science.” ― Albert Einstein

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#125

J.K.Rowling quote about hapiness “Happiness can be found, even in the darkest of times, if one only remembers to turn on the light.” ― J.K.Rowling

6points

#126

“You only live twice: once when you are born, and once when you look death in the face.” ― Ian Fleming

6points

#127

“For me, I am driven by two main philosophies: know more today about the world than I knew yesterday and lessen the suffering of others. You'd be surprised how far that gets you.” ― Neil deGrasse Tyson

6points

#128

“Nothing was ever in tune. People just blindly grabbed at whatever there was: communism, health foods, zen, surfing, ballet, group encounters, orgies, biking, herbs, Catholicism, weight-lifting, travel, withdrawal, vegetarianism, painting, writing, conducting, yoga, gambling, drinking, Buddha, Christ, jet travel, New York City, and then it all evaporated and fell apart. People had to find things to do while waiting to die. I guess it was nice to have a choice.” ― Charles Bukowski

6points

Luigi Felici 2 years ago

Oh dear

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#129

Ayn Rand quote about individuality “The smallest minority on earth is the individual. Those who deny individual rights cannot claim to be defenders of minorities.” ― Ayn Rand

6points

#130

“If you're going to kick authority in the teeth, you might as well use two feet.” ― Keith Richards

6points

#131

“I shall look at you out of the corner of my eye, and you will say nothing. Words are the source of misunderstandings.” ― Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

6points

#132

“To be is to be perceived.” – Bishop George Berkeley

6points

#133

John Stuart Mill quote about liberty “Liberty consists in doing what one desires.” – John Stuart Mill

6points

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#134

“We are too weak to discover the truth by reason alone.” – St. Augustine

6points

#135

“The legitimate powers of government extend to such acts only as are injurious to others. It does me no injury for my neighbor to say there are twenty gods or no god. It neither picks my pocket nor breaks my leg.” ― Thomas Jefferson

6points

#136

“The most incomprehensible thing about the world is that it is at all comprehensible.” ― Albert Einstein

6points

#137

Aristotle quote on art “The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance.” ― Aristotle

6points

Luigi Felici 2 years ago

Obvious

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#138

“Even if there is only one possible unified theory, it is just a set of rules and equations. What is it that breathes fire into the equations and makes a universe for them to describe? The usual approach of science of constructing a mathematical model cannot answer the questions of why there should be a universe for the model to describe. Why does the universe go to all the bother of existing?” ― Stephen Hawking

6points

Luigi Felici 2 years ago (edited)

Well, does the universe exist or does it allow existence?

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#139

“Take it moment by moment, and you will find that we are all, as I’ve said before, bugs in amber.” ― Kurt Vonnegut

6points

#140

“Devotion to the truth is the hallmark of morality; there is no greater, nobler, more heroic form of devotion than the act of a man who assumes the responsibility of thinking.” ― Ayn Rand

6points

Ewan McInnes 2 years ago

As much as I disagree with Ayn Rand's philosophy generally, I agree with this quote

0points

#141

Ludwig van Beethoven quote on art “Don’t only practice your art, but force your way into its secrets, for it and knowledge can raise men to the divine.” ― Ludwig van Beethoven

6points

#142

“Everything we do is for the purpose of altering consciousness. We form friendships so that we can feel certain emotions, like love, and avoid others, like loneliness. We eat specific foods to enjoy their fleeting presence on our tongues. We read for the pleasure of thinking another person's thoughts.” ― Sam Harris

6points

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#143

“Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric.” ― Bertrand Russell

5points

#144

“Is it possible, in the final analysis, for one human being to achieve perfect understanding of another?
We can invest enormous time and energy in serious efforts to know another person, but in the end, how close can we come to that person's essence? We convince ourselves that we know the other person well, but do we really know anything important about anyone?” ― Haruki Murakami

5points

#145

“I think therefore I am.” – René Descartes

5points

#146

G. W. F. Hegel quote on rationality “What is rational is actual and what is actual is rational.” – G. W. F. Hegel

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#147

“God is not willing to do everything, and thus take away our free will and that share of glory which belongs to us.” – Niccolo Machiavelli

5points

#148

“If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent Him.” – Voltaire

5points

#149

“The mind is furnished with ideas by experience alone.” – John Locke

5points

#150

Democritus quote on courage “The brave man is he who overcomes not only his enemies but his pleasures.” – Democritus

5points

Justė Kairytė - Barkauskienė

Justė is a copywriter here at Bored Panda, and though her studies at the Veterinary Academy seemingly have nothing to do with writing, the passion for animals and nature helps in creating the most interesting and engaging posts. She also works with Search Engine Optimization, so you could find Bored Panda's articles easier. Justė's not only an avid equestrian, but she's also a walking encyclopedia. Ask her anything!

Justė is a copywriter here at Bored Panda, and though her studies at the Veterinary Academy seemingly have nothing to do with writing, the passion for animals and nature helps in creating the most interesting and engaging posts. She also works with Search Engine Optimization, so you could find Bored Panda's articles easier. Justė's not only an avid equestrian, but she's also a walking encyclopedia. Ask her anything!

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Linas is a SEO List Curator at Bored Panda with a bachelor's degree in Communication & Digital Marketing. Before, he did a quick internship at AMII and worked as a Wolt courier (in other words, before Bored Panda, he never had a real job). After an intense day of Googling and scrolling, he likes to lose himself in League of Legends or make a couple pretzels while practicing Brazilian Jiu Jitsu. Never shies away from a deep conversation, never runs out of jokes. Also an owner of 0.0028 Bitcoin.

Linas is a SEO List Curator at Bored Panda with a bachelor's degree in Communication & Digital Marketing. Before, he did a quick internship at AMII and worked as a Wolt courier (in other words, before Bored Panda, he never had a real job). After an intense day of Googling and scrolling, he likes to lose himself in League of Legends or make a couple pretzels while practicing Brazilian Jiu Jitsu. Never shies away from a deep conversation, never runs out of jokes. Also an owner of 0.0028 Bitcoin.

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Cwc Connie 2 years ago

Some are ok. Left out faith. Death and grief

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APL 2 years ago

"There was only ever one Christian, and he died on the cross." - Friedrich Nietzsche, Twilight of the Idols

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Cwc Connie 2 years ago

Some are ok. Left out faith. Death and grief

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APL 2 years ago

"There was only ever one Christian, and he died on the cross." - Friedrich Nietzsche, Twilight of the Idols

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