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Philosophy Quotes @quotables.bsky.social · 47m

The life of a man is of no greater importance to the universe than that of an oyster. -- David Hume

Philosophy Quotes @quotables.bsky.social · 6h

I am also at this point accustomed to reaffirm with emphasis my conviction that the sun is real, and also that it is hot - in fact hot as Hell, and that if the metaphysicians doubt it they should go there and see. -- Winston Churchill

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Philosophy Quotes @quotables.bsky.social · 11h

[We] who are labelled 'deniers of truth' ...think that the sort of metaphysics and epistemological practised by analytic philosophers is just as fantastic and futile as Plato's Theory of Forms and Locke's notion of simple ideas. -- Richard Rorty

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Philosophy Quotes @quotables.bsky.social · 17h

The criminal law stands to the passion of revenge in much the same relation as marriage to the sexual appetite. -- James Fitzjames Stephen

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Philosophy Quotes @quotables.bsky.social · 18h

Science may be described as the art of systematic over-simplification. -- Karl Popper

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Philosophy Quotes @quotables.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Man was made for action, and to promote by the exertion of his faculties such changes in the external circumstances both of himself and others, as may seem most favourable to the happiness of all. -- Adam Smith

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Philosophy Quotes @quotables.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Life must be lived forward, but can only be understood backward. -- Soren Kierkegaard

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Philosophy Quotes @quotables.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Love, friendship, respect do not unite people as much as common hatred for something. -- Anton Chekhov

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Philosophy Quotes @quotables.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Use your health, even to the point of wearing it out. That is what it is for. Spend all you have before you die; and do not outlive yourself. -- George Bernard Shaw

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Philosophy Quotes @quotables.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

My kind of debauchery soils not only my body and my thoughts, but also anything I may conceive in its course, that is to say, the vast starry universe, which merely serves as a backdrop. -- Georges Bataille

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Philosophy Quotes @quotables.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

[T]hinking is an unusual and precarious exercise for Conservatives. -- Roger Scruton

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Philosophy Quotes @quotables.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

The universe that we observe has precisely the properties we should expect if there is, at bottom, no design, no purpose, no evil, no good, nothing but pitiless indifference. -- Richard Dawkins

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Philosophy Quotes @quotables.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Man is the measure of all things: of those which are, that they are; of those which are not, that they are not. -- Protagoras of Adera

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Philosophy Quotes @quotables.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Time is a child playing a game of draughts; the kingdom is a child's. -- Heraclitus

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Philosophy Quotes @quotables.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Injustice, poverty, slavery, ignorance - these may be cured by reform or revolution. But men do not live only by fighting evils. They live by positive goals, individual and collective, a vast variety of them, seldom predictable, at times incompatible. -- Isaiah Berlin

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Philosophy Quotes @quotables.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Know thyself. -- Thales Miletus

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Philosophy Quotes @quotables.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

The Creator, if He exists, has a special preference for beetles. -- John Haldane

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Philosophy Quotes @quotables.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Everything flows and nothing stays. -- Heraclitus

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Philosophy Quotes @quotables.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

The sentence 'snow is white' is true if, and only if, snow is white. -- Alfred Tarski

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Philosophy Quotes @quotables.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

[T]he real tyranny is the tyranny of your next-door neighbour. -- Walter Bagehot

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Philosophy Quotes @quotables.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

The only principle that does not inhibit progress is: anything goes. -- Paul Feyerabend

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Philosophy Quotes @quotables.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

A man with no philosophy in him is the most inauspicious and unprofitable of all possible social mates. -- William James

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Philosophy Quotes @quotables.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Universal doubt cancels itself. -- Edmund Husserl

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Philosophy Quotes @quotables.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Immortality. I notice that as soon as writers broach this question they begin to quote. I hate quotation. Tell me what you know. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Philosophy Quotes @quotables.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

We can even answer the ancient question, 'Why is there something rather than nothing?' Something is more natural than nothing. -- Victor Stenger

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Philosophy Quotes @quotables.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

The praise of ancient authors proceeds not from the reverence of the dead, but from the competition, and mutual envy of the living. -- Thomas Hobbes

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Philosophy Quotes @quotables.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

The expression often used by Mr. Herbert Spencer, of the Survival of the Fittest, is more accurate, and is sometimes equally convenient. -- Charles Darwin

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Philosophy Quotes @quotables.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Are you not ashamed that you give your attention to acquiring as much money as possible... and give no attention or thought to truth and understanding and the perfection of your soul? -- Plato

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Philosophy Quotes @quotables.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Philosophers, according to the etymology, are supposed to love wisdom. In modern times, they have been more inclined to envy and imitate madness, which they see as a state of superior enlightenment. -- Peter Conrad

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Philosophy Quotes @quotables.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

The body is not a permanent dwelling, but a sort of inn...which is to be left behind when one perceives that one is a burden to the host. -- Seneca

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Philosophy Quotes @quotables.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Great indebtedness does not make men grateful, but vengeful; and if a little charity is not forgotten, it turns into a gnawing worm. -- Friedrich Nietzsche

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Philosophy Quotes @quotables.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

[S]econdary and latterly tertiary education has created a large population of people... who have been educated far beyond their capacity to undertake analytical thought. -- Peter Medawar

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Philosophy Quotes @quotables.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

The thing-in-itself, the will-to-live, exists whole and undivided in every being, even in the tiniest; it is present as completely as in all that ever were, are, and will be, taken together. -- Arthur Schopenhauer

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Philosophy Quotes @quotables.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Our politics, economics, advertising, and religions (New Age and Old) are awash in credulity. Those who have something to sell, those who wish to influence public opinion, those in power, a skeptic might suggest, have a vested interest in discouraging skepticism. -- Carl Sagan

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Philosophy Quotes @quotables.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Many people are afraid of freedom. They are conditioned to be afraid of it. -- Herbert Marcuse

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Philosophy Quotes @quotables.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

On earth there is nothing great but man; in man there is nothing great but mind. -- William Hamilton

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Philosophy Quotes @quotables.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Sometimes a cigar is just a cigar. -- Sigmund Freud

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Philosophy Quotes @quotables.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Ethiopians make their gods black and snub-nosed, Thracians red-haired and with blue eyes. -- Xenophanes

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Philosophy Quotes @quotables.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Distrust everyone in whom the impulse to punish is powerful! -- Friedrich Nietzsche

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Philosophy Quotes @quotables.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Can one be a saint if God does not exist? That is the only concrete problem I know of today. -- Albert Camus

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Philosophy Quotes @quotables.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

There are two kinds of truths: those of reasoning and those of fact. The truths of reasoning are necessary and their opposite is impossible; the truths of fact are contigent and their opposites are possible. -- Gottfried Leibnitz

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Philosophy Quotes @quotables.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Happiness consists in frequent repetition of pleasure. -- Arthur Schopenhauer

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Philosophy Quotes @quotables.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

It is the task of radical thought, since the world is given to us unintelligibly, to make it more unintelligible, more enigmatic, more fabulous. -- Jean Baudrillard

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Philosophy Quotes @quotables.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Nature abhors a vacuum. -- Benedict Spinoza

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Philosophy Quotes @quotables.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Crito, I owe a cock to Asclepius; will you remember to pay the debt? -- Socrates

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Philosophy Quotes @quotables.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

There could not be a worse time for philosophers to surrender the baton of metaphysical inquiry to physicists. Fundamental physics is in a metaphysical mess and needs help. -- Raymond Tallis

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Philosophy Quotes @quotables.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Philosophy, in spite of all its tiresome features, is not a luxury but a necessity, because we always have to use it when things get difficult. That is why I have spent such a lot of my life on it. -- Mary Midgley

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Philosophy Quotes @quotables.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

The people recognize themselves in their commodities; they find their soul in their automobile, hi-fi set, split-level home, kitchen equipment. -- Herbert Marcuse

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Philosophy Quotes @quotables.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

I would not live forever because we should not live forever, because if we were supposed to live forever then we would live forever, but we cannot live forever, which is why I would not live forever. -- Miss Alabama

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Philosophy Quotes @quotables.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Liberty is the right to do what the law permits. -- Montesquieu

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