Philosophical Quotes
1598 Philosophical quotes by 584 unique authors
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The time when most of you should withdraw into yourself is when you are forced to be in a crowd.
— Epicurus
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Riches do not exhilarate us so much with their possession as they torment us with their loss.
— Epicurus
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Justice... is a kind of compact not to harm or be harmed.
— Epicurus
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There is no such thing as justice in the abstract; it is merely a compact between men.
— Epicurus
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The learner always begins by finding fault, but the scholar sees the positive merit in everything.
— Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
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Governments have never learned anything from history, or acted on principles deducted from it.
— Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
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Truth in philosophy means that concept and external reality correspond.
— Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
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The Few assume to be the deputies, but they are often only the despoilers of the Many.
— Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
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World history is a court of judgment.
— Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
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The most thought-provoking thing in our thought-provoking time is that we are still not thinking.
— Martin Heidegger
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Every man is born as many men and dies as a single one.
— Martin Heidegger
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The possible ranks higher than the actual.
— Martin Heidegger
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Making itself intelligible is suicide for philosophy.
— Martin Heidegger
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But every historical statement and legitimization itself moves within a certain relation to history.
— Martin Heidegger
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The human body is essentially something other than an animal organism.
— Martin Heidegger
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Why are there beings at all, instead of Nothing?
— Martin Heidegger
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Curiosity is the lust of the mind.
— Thomas Hobbes
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Leisure is the Mother of Philosophy.
— Thomas Hobbes
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A man cannot lay down the right of resisting them that assault him by force, to take away his life.
— Thomas Hobbes
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The privilege of absurdity; to which no living creature is subject, but man only.
— Thomas Hobbes
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Love is the master key that opens the gates of happiness.
— Oliver Wendell Holmes
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Beauty in things exists in the mind which contemplates them.
— David Hume
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To hate, to love, to think, to feel, to see; all this is nothing but to perceive.
— David Hume
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Generally speaking, the errors in religion are dangerous; those in philosophy only ridiculous.
— David Hume
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Nothing is more surprising than the easiness with which the many are governed by the few.
— David Hume
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