Best Philosophical Qoutes
1598 Philosophical quotes by 584 unique authors
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Frivolity is inborn, conceit acquired by education.
— Marcus Tullius Cicero
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Great is our admiration of the orator who speaks with fluency and discretion.
— Marcus Tullius Cicero
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Hatreds not vowed and concealed are to be feared more than those openly declared.
— Marcus Tullius Cicero
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It shows nobility to be willing to increase your debt to a man to whom you already owe much.
— Marcus Tullius Cicero
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Not cohabitation but consensus constitutes marriage.
— Marcus Tullius Cicero
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To some extent I liken slavery to death.
— Marcus Tullius Cicero
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What one has, one ought to use: and whatever he does he should do with all his might.
— Marcus Tullius Cicero
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The world's a mean place. It's unfair, then it's fair. It's hateful, then it's loving. It's a very peculiar place on philosophical and metaphysical and…
— Tim Allen
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Just living is not enough... one must have sunshine, freedom, and a little flower.
— Hans Christian Andersen
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I did this within a philosophical framework, and a moral and legal framework. And I have been turned into a cartoon of the greatest villain…
— Jack Abramoff
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There is nothing on this earth more to be prized than true friendship.
— Thomas Aquinas
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Love takes up where knowledge leaves off.
— Thomas Aquinas
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Friendship is the source of the greatest pleasures, and without friends even the most agreeable pursuits become tedious.
— Thomas Aquinas
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Faith has to do with things that are not seen and hope with things that are not at hand.
— Thomas Aquinas
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How can we live in harmony? First we need to know we are all madly in love with the same God.
— Thomas Aquinas
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Beware of the person of one book.
— Thomas Aquinas
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Because philosophy arises from awe, a philosopher is bound in his way to be a lover of myths and poetic fables. Poets and philosophers are…
— Thomas Aquinas
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All the efforts of the human mind cannot exhaust the essence of a single fly.
— Thomas Aquinas
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Moral science is better occupied when treating of friendship than of justice.
— Thomas Aquinas
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Good can exist without evil, whereas evil cannot exist without good.
— Thomas Aquinas
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Whatever is received is received according to the nature of the recipient.
— Thomas Aquinas
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Human salvation demands the divine disclosure of truths surpassing reason.
— Thomas Aquinas
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To convert somebody go and take them by the hand and guide them.
— Thomas Aquinas
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All that is true, by whomsoever it has been said has its origin in the Spirit.
— Thomas Aquinas
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A photograph is a secret about a secret. The more it tells you the less you know.
— Diane Arbus
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