Philosophical Quotes

1598 Philosophical quotes by 584 unique authors

The entire universe is nothing but a great metaphor. — Simone Weil
All thought is immoral. Its very essence is destruction. If you think of anything, you kill it. Nothing survives being thought of. — Oscar Wilde
We turn from the light to see. — Don Paterson
It is sad that the air is the only thing we share. No matter how close we get to each other, there is always air… — Yoko Ono
Only the impossible lasts forever. — Djuna Barnes
Mistakes are joyful, truth infernal. — Albert Camus
Those who deny the existence of the truth postulate the truth of their denial and plainly contradict themselves. — Antonio Machado
The mere passage of time makes us all exiles. — Joyce Carol Oates
As soon as one knows one is going to die, childhood is over.... So one can be grown up at seven. Then, I believe most… — Eugene Ionesco
We are like snails, each stuck to his own leaf. — Stanislaw Lem
The partition separating life from death is so tenuous. The unbelievable fragility of our organism suggests a vision on a screen: a kind of mist… — Czeslaw Milosz
Every spoken word double-crosses us. The only tolerable form of communication is the written word, since it isn't a stone in a bridge between souls… — Fernando Pessoa
Humility is the daughter of truth. — Anne Truitt
It's only when I say that everything is incomprehensible that I come as close as possible to understanding the only thing it is given to… — Eugene Ionesco
I always know a lie when I hear it, and the effect it has on me is no good at all. I go berserk just… — William Saroyan
If a person sings quietly to himself on the street people smile with approval; but if he talks it's not alright; they think he's crazy.… — Edward Hoagland
Are we not all shipwrecked,...condemned to death?... However impatient our neighbours make us, however much indignation our race arouses, we are all bound together, and… — Henri Frederic Amiel
Every artist is an unhappy lover. — Iris Murdoch
On the road halfway between faith and criticism stands the inn of reason. Reason is faith in what can be understood without faith, but it's… — Fernando Pessoa
There was a time in our past when one could walk down any street and be surrounded by harmonious buildings. Such a street wasn't perfect,… — Jonathan Hale
The more I go into I, the more I fall out of I. — Ken Wilber
There's something in life that's a curtain, and I keep trying to raise it. — Maxine Hong Kingston
It's when I am fully conscious that I ask questions. — Eugene Ionesco
The desire to be loved is the last illusion. Give it up and you will be free. — Margaret Atwood
If life has given us no more than a prison cell, let's at least decorate it as best we can-with the shadows of our dreams,… — Fernando Pessoa

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