Philosophical Quotes
1598 Philosophical quotes by 584 unique authors
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After coming into contact with a religious man I always feel I must wash my hands.
— Friedrich Nietzsche
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Forgiveness is the final form of love.
— Reinhold Niebuhr
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Without music, life would be a mistake.
— Friedrich Nietzsche
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The surest way to corrupt a youth is to instruct him to hold in higher esteem those who think alike than those who think differently.
— Friedrich Nietzsche
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There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness.
— Friedrich Nietzsche
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Insanity in individuals is something rare - but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule.
— Friedrich Nietzsche
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To forget one's purpose is the commonest form of stupidity.
— Friedrich Nietzsche
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At times one remains faithful to a cause only because its opponents do not cease to be insipid.
— Friedrich Nietzsche
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The irrationality of a thing is no argument against its existence, rather a condition of it.
— Friedrich Nietzsche
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The greatest remedy for anger is delay.
— Thomas Paine
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Whatever I take, I take too much or too little; I do not take the exact amount. The exact amount is no use to me.
— Antonio Porchia
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The philosophical connection between the Islamic world and the West is much closer than I thought. Doubt did not begin with Descartes. We have this…
— Tariq Ramadan
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The sense of historical continuity, and a feeling for philosophical rectitude cannot, however, be compromised.
— Herbert Read
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We are more often treacherous through weakness than through calculation.
— Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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Proverbs often contradict one another, as any reader soon discovers. The sagacity that advises us to look before we leap promptly warns us that if…
— Leo Rosten
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The world of reality has its limits; the world of imagination is boundless.
— Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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The person who has lived the most is not the one with the most years but the one with the richest experiences.
— Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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Falsehood has an infinity of combinations, but truth has only one mode of being.
— Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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I hate books; they only teach us to talk about things we know nothing about.
— Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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You forget that the fruits belong to all and that the land belongs to no one.
— Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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Nature never deceives us; it is we who deceive ourselves.
— Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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Those that are most slow in making a promise are the most faithful in the performance of it.
— Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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Gratitude is a duty which ought to be paid, but which none have a right to expect.
— Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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Plant and your spouse plants with you; weed and you weed alone.
— Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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All of my misfortunes come from having thought too well of my fellows.
— Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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