Philosophical Quotes
1598 Philosophical quotes by 584 unique authors
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He who does not prevent a crime when he can, encourages it.
— Seneca the Younger
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Intelligence is the faculty of making artificial objects, especially tools to make tools.
— Henri Bergson
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I am about to take my last voyage, a great leap in the dark.
— Thomas Hobbes
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Be careful when you fight the monsters, lest you become one.
— Friedrich Nietzsche
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The motive power of democracy is love
— Henri Bergson
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One must steer, not talk.
— Seneca the Younger
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Where a man can live, he can also live well.
— Marcus Aurelius
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The display of grief makes more demands than grief itself. How few men are sad in their own company.
— Seneca the Younger
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The first step in a person's salvation is knowledge of their sin.
— Seneca the Younger
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What is true belongs to me!
— Seneca the Younger
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Sudden glory is the passion which maketh those grimaces called laughter.
— Thomas Hobbes
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Opinion is like a pendulum and obeys the same law.
— Arthur Schopenhauer
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For men are not equal: thus speaks justice.
— Friedrich Nietzsche
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If you judge, investigate.
— Seneca the Younger
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Nothing is void of God, his work is everywhere his full of himself.
— Seneca the Younger
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In reality, the past is preserved by itself automatically.
— Henri Bergson
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Newspapers are the second hand of history.
— Arthur Schopenhauer
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Call it Nature, Fate, Fortune; all these are names of the one and selfsame God.
— Seneca the Younger
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From the first day to this, sheer greed was the driving spirit of civilization.
— Friedrich Engels
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The Gay Science, section 108
— Friedrich Nietzsche
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Death is the wish of some, the relief of many, and the end of all.
— Seneca the Younger
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A great mind becomes a great fortune.
— Seneca the Younger
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I don't trust liberals, I trust conservatives.
— Seneca the Younger
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True virtue is life under the direction of reason.
— Baruch Spinoza
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Christianity is called the religion of pity.
— Friedrich Nietzsche
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