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Philosophy Quotes
25 Jan, 16:54
“In the mountains of truth you will never climb in vain: either you will get up higher today or you will exercise your strength so as to be able to get up higher tomorrow.”
— Friedrich Nietzsche
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— Friedrich Nietzsche
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Philosophy Quotes
25 Jan, 14:44
✹ From today's Wisdom Letter:
“Your worst sin is that you have destroyed and betrayed yourself for nothing.”
— Fyodor Dostoevsky
https://philosophors.substack.com/p/the-wisdom-letter-205
“Your worst sin is that you have destroyed and betrayed yourself for nothing.”
— Fyodor Dostoevsky
https://philosophors.substack.com/p/the-wisdom-letter-205
Philosophy Quotes
25 Jan, 08:11
“Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.”
— Ernest Hemingway
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— Ernest Hemingway
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Philosophy Quotes
24 Jan, 14:38
✹ From today's Wisdom Letter:
“The intolerant can be viewed as free-riders, as persons who seek the advantages of just institutions while not doing their share to uphold them.”
— John Rawls
https://philosophors.substack.com/p/the-wisdom-letter-204
“The intolerant can be viewed as free-riders, as persons who seek the advantages of just institutions while not doing their share to uphold them.”
— John Rawls
https://philosophors.substack.com/p/the-wisdom-letter-204
Philosophy Quotes
23 Jan, 18:21
“Nobody can save you but yourself—and you’re worth saving. It’s a war not easily won, but if anything is worth winning—this is it.”
— Charles Bukowski
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— Charles Bukowski
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Philosophy Quotes
23 Jan, 14:42
✹ From today's Wisdom Letter:
“He who fights with monsters should see to it that he himself does not become a monster. And if you gaze long into an abyss, the abyss also gazes into you.”
— Friedrich Nietzsche
https://philosophors.substack.com/p/the-wisdom-letter-203
“He who fights with monsters should see to it that he himself does not become a monster. And if you gaze long into an abyss, the abyss also gazes into you.”
— Friedrich Nietzsche
https://philosophors.substack.com/p/the-wisdom-letter-203
Philosophy Quotes
22 Jan, 14:32
✹ From today's Wisdom Letter:
“However, he who makes himself a worm cannot complain afterwards that he gets stepped on.”
— Immanuel Kant
https://philosophors.substack.com/p/the-wisdom-letter-202
“However, he who makes himself a worm cannot complain afterwards that he gets stepped on.”
— Immanuel Kant
https://philosophors.substack.com/p/the-wisdom-letter-202
Philosophy Quotes
22 Jan, 13:48
“Painful is the stress when one cannot reproduce or convey vividly to others, however hard he tries, what he's experienced so intensely.”
— Haruki Murakami
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— Haruki Murakami
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Philosophy Quotes
22 Jan, 08:26
“Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try again. Fail again. Fail better.”
— Samuel Beckett
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— Samuel Beckett
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Philosophy Quotes
21 Jan, 17:55
“I have come to believe that a great teacher is a great artist and that there are as few as there are any other great artists. It might even be the greatest of the arts since the medium is the human mind and spirit.”
— John Steinbeck
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— John Steinbeck
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Philosophy Quotes
21 Jan, 15:37
“Thus do I counsel you, my friends: distrust all in whom the impulse to punish is powerful!”
— Friedrich Nietzsche
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— Friedrich Nietzsche
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Philosophy Quotes
21 Jan, 08:06
“Love is the extremely difficult realisation that something other than oneself is real.”
— Iris Murdoch
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— Iris Murdoch
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Philosophy Quotes
20 Jan, 18:19
“When you wake up in the morning, tell yourself: The people I deal with today will be meddling, ungrateful, arrogant, dishonest, jealous, and surly. They are like this because they can't tell good from evil.”
— Marcus Aurelius
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— Marcus Aurelius
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Philosophy Quotes
20 Jan, 15:12
“We suffer from an incurable malady: Hope.”
— Mahmoud Darwish
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— Mahmoud Darwish
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Philosophy Quotes
20 Jan, 12:43
“It is good to love many things, for therein lies the true strength, and whosoever loves much performs much, and can accomplish much, and what is done in love, is well done.”
— Vincent van Gogh
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— Vincent van Gogh
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Philosophy Quotes
20 Jan, 09:28
“I don't care if it's a sad good-by or a bad good-by, but when I leave a place I like to know I'm leaving it. If you don't, you feel even worse.”
— J. D. Salinger
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— J. D. Salinger
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Philosophy Quotes
20 Jan, 08:08
“I was a man who thrived on solitude; without it I was like another man without food or water. Each day without solitude weakened me. I took no pride in my solitude; but I was dependent on it.”
— Charles Bukowski
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— Charles Bukowski
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Philosophy Quotes
19 Jan, 19:21
“We are as forlorn as children lost in the woods. When you stand in front of me and look at me, what do you know of the griefs that are in me and what do I know of yours.”
— Franz Kafka
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— Franz Kafka
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Philosophy Quotes
19 Jan, 17:43
“It is not true that people stop pursuing dreams because they grow old, they grow old because they stop pursuing dreams.”
— Gabriel García Márquez
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— Gabriel García Márquez
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Philosophy Quotes
18 Jan, 14:30
✹ From today's Wisdom Letter:
“How much better is silence; the coffee cup, the table. How much better to sit by myself like the solitary sea-bird that opens its wings on the stake. Let me sit here for ever with bare things, this coffee cup, this knife, this fork, things in themselves, myself being myself.”
— Virginia Woolf
https://philosophors.substack.com/p/the-wisdom-letter-199
“How much better is silence; the coffee cup, the table. How much better to sit by myself like the solitary sea-bird that opens its wings on the stake. Let me sit here for ever with bare things, this coffee cup, this knife, this fork, things in themselves, myself being myself.”
— Virginia Woolf
https://philosophors.substack.com/p/the-wisdom-letter-199
Philosophy Quotes
18 Jan, 08:54
“Power does not corrupt. Fear corrupts... perhaps the fear of a loss of power.”
— John Steinbeck
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— John Steinbeck
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Philosophy Quotes
17 Jan, 15:25
“Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent.”
— Isaac Asimov
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— Isaac Asimov
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Philosophy Quotes
17 Jan, 14:31
✹ From today's Wisdom Letter:
“I have very strongly this feeling... that our everyday life is at one and the same time banal, overfamiliar, platitudinous and yet mysterious and extraordinary.”
— Bryan Magee
https://philosophors.substack.com/p/the-wisdom-letter-198
“I have very strongly this feeling... that our everyday life is at one and the same time banal, overfamiliar, platitudinous and yet mysterious and extraordinary.”
— Bryan Magee
https://philosophors.substack.com/p/the-wisdom-letter-198
Philosophy Quotes
17 Jan, 10:15
“It's a bit embarrassing to have been concerned with the human problem all one's life and find at the end that one has no more to offer by way of advice than 'Try to be a little kinder.'”
— Aldous Huxley
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— Aldous Huxley
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Philosophy Quotes
17 Jan, 09:00
“The fabric of democracy is always fragile everywhere because it depends on the will of citizens to protect it, and when they become scared, when it becomes dangerous for them to defend it, it can go very quickly.”
— Margaret Atwood
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— Margaret Atwood
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Philosophy Quotes
16 Jan, 20:42
“A belief in a supernatural source of evil is not necessary; men alone are quite capable of every wickedness.”
— Joseph Conrad
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— Joseph Conrad
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Philosophy Quotes
16 Jan, 14:40
✹ From today's Wisdom Letter:
“Knowledge is indivisible. When people grow wise in one direction, they are sure to make it easier for themselves to grow wise in other directions as well. On the other hand, when they split up knowledge, concentrate on their own field, and scorn and ignore other fields, they grow less wise — even in their own field.”
— Isaac Asimov
https://philosophors.substack.com/p/the-wisdom-letter-197
“Knowledge is indivisible. When people grow wise in one direction, they are sure to make it easier for themselves to grow wise in other directions as well. On the other hand, when they split up knowledge, concentrate on their own field, and scorn and ignore other fields, they grow less wise — even in their own field.”
— Isaac Asimov
https://philosophors.substack.com/p/the-wisdom-letter-197
Philosophy Quotes
16 Jan, 10:37
“The first thing you learn in life is you’re a fool. The last thing you learn in life is you’re the same fool.”
— Ray Bradbury
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— Ray Bradbury
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Philosophy Quotes
15 Jan, 20:15
“To admit that an opponent might be both honest and intelligent is felt to be intolerable. It is more immediately satisfying to shout that he is a fool or a scoundrel, or both, than to find out what he is really like.”
— George Orwell
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— George Orwell
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Philosophy Quotes
15 Jan, 09:44
“Endurance is one of the most difficult disciplines, but it is to the one who endures that the final victory comes.”
— Buddha
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— Buddha
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Philosophy Quotes
15 Jan, 08:06
“You cannot swim for new horizons until you have courage to lose sight of the shore.”
— William Faulkner
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— William Faulkner
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Philosophy Quotes
14 Jan, 14:55
✹ From today's Wisdom Letter:
“We begin to understand the goal of life is to die young — as late as possible!”
— Ashley Montagu
https://philosophors.substack.com/p/the-wisdom-letter-195
“We begin to understand the goal of life is to die young — as late as possible!”
— Ashley Montagu
https://philosophors.substack.com/p/the-wisdom-letter-195
Philosophy Quotes
13 Jan, 14:48
✹ From today's Wisdom Letter:
“It’s just so uninteresting to live without love. Life has not risk. Love just seems to make life not just livable, but a gallant, gallant event.”
— Toni Morrison
https://philosophors.substack.com/p/the-wisdom-letter-194
“It’s just so uninteresting to live without love. Life has not risk. Love just seems to make life not just livable, but a gallant, gallant event.”
— Toni Morrison
https://philosophors.substack.com/p/the-wisdom-letter-194
Philosophy Quotes
13 Jan, 09:16
“There is no greatness where there is not simplicity, goodness, and truth.”
— Leo Tolstoy
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— Leo Tolstoy
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Philosophy Quotes
13 Jan, 07:47
“Truth is the ultimate end of the whole universe.”
— Thomas Aquinas
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— Thomas Aquinas
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Philosophy Quotes
12 Jan, 17:41
“Only during hard times do people come to understand how difficult it is to be master of their feelings and thoughts.”
— Anton Chekhov
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— Anton Chekhov
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Philosophy Quotes
12 Jan, 14:59
✹ From today's Wisdom Letter:
“Let us be grateful to people who make us happy, they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.”
— Marcel Proust
https://philosophors.substack.com/p/the-wisdom-letter-193
“Let us be grateful to people who make us happy, they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.”
— Marcel Proust
https://philosophors.substack.com/p/the-wisdom-letter-193
Philosophy Quotes
12 Jan, 09:21
“My imagination functions much better when I don't have to speak to people.”
— Patricia Highsmith
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— Patricia Highsmith
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Philosophy Quotes
11 Jan, 14:53
✹ From today's Wisdom Letter:
“Man is a rational animal — so at least I have been told. Throughout a long life, I have looked diligently for evidence in favor of this statement, but so far I have not had the good fortune to come across it.”
— Bertrand Russell
https://philosophors.substack.com/p/the-wisdom-letter-192
“Man is a rational animal — so at least I have been told. Throughout a long life, I have looked diligently for evidence in favor of this statement, but so far I have not had the good fortune to come across it.”
— Bertrand Russell
https://philosophors.substack.com/p/the-wisdom-letter-192
Philosophy Quotes
11 Jan, 09:03
“I've always loved you, and when you love someone, you love the whole person, just as he or she is, and not as you would like them to be.”
— Leo Tolstoy
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— Leo Tolstoy
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Philosophy Quotes
11 Jan, 07:52
“An intellectual says a simple thing in a hard way. An artist says a hard thing in a simple way.”
— Charles Bukowski
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— Charles Bukowski
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Philosophy Quotes
10 Jan, 17:53
“Another belief of mine: that everyone else my age is an adult, whereas I am merely in disguise.”
— Margaret Atwood
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— Margaret Atwood
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Philosophy Quotes
10 Jan, 14:30
✹ From today's Wisdom Letter:
“I must learn to love the fool in me, the one who feels too much, talks too much, takes too many chances, wins sometimes and loses often, lacks self-control, loves and hates, hurts and gets hurt, promises and breaks promises, laughs and cries. It alone protects me against that utterly self-controlled, masterful tyrant whom I also harbor and who would rob me of human aliveness, humility, and dignity, but for my fool.”
— Theodore Isaac Rubin
https://philosophors.substack.com/p/the-wisdom-letter-191
“I must learn to love the fool in me, the one who feels too much, talks too much, takes too many chances, wins sometimes and loses often, lacks self-control, loves and hates, hurts and gets hurt, promises and breaks promises, laughs and cries. It alone protects me against that utterly self-controlled, masterful tyrant whom I also harbor and who would rob me of human aliveness, humility, and dignity, but for my fool.”
— Theodore Isaac Rubin
https://philosophors.substack.com/p/the-wisdom-letter-191
Philosophy Quotes
10 Jan, 12:09
“Books are like imprisoned souls till someone takes them down from a shelf and frees them.”
— Samuel Butler
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— Samuel Butler
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Philosophy Quotes
10 Jan, 10:25
“There's more beauty in truth, even if it is dreadful beauty.”
— John Steinbeck
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— John Steinbeck
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Philosophy Quotes
09 Jan, 14:21
✹ From today's Wisdom Letter:
“You know, it's quite a job starting to love somebody. You have to have energy, generosity, blindness. There is even a moment, in the very beginning, when you have to jump across a precipice: if you think about it you don't do it.”
— Jean-Paul Sartre
https://philosophors.substack.com/p/the-wisdom-letter-190
“You know, it's quite a job starting to love somebody. You have to have energy, generosity, blindness. There is even a moment, in the very beginning, when you have to jump across a precipice: if you think about it you don't do it.”
— Jean-Paul Sartre
https://philosophors.substack.com/p/the-wisdom-letter-190
Philosophy Quotes
09 Jan, 07:02
“When the rich wage war it's the poor who die.”
— Jean-Paul Sartre
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— Jean-Paul Sartre
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Philosophy Quotes
08 Jan, 15:51
“Don't look forward to the day you stop suffering, because when it comes you'll know you're dead.”
— Tennessee Williams
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— Tennessee Williams
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Philosophy Quotes
08 Jan, 14:31
✹ From today's Wisdom Letter:
“The awareness that we are all human beings together has become lost in war and through politics.”
— Albert Schweitzer
https://philosophors.substack.com/p/the-wisdom-letter-189
“The awareness that we are all human beings together has become lost in war and through politics.”
— Albert Schweitzer
https://philosophors.substack.com/p/the-wisdom-letter-189
Philosophy Quotes
26 Dec, 14:39
✹ From today's Wisdom Letter:
“At the end of the day, we can endure much more than we think we can.”
— Frida Kahlo
https://philosophors.substack.com/p/the-wisdom-letter-176
“At the end of the day, we can endure much more than we think we can.”
— Frida Kahlo
https://philosophors.substack.com/p/the-wisdom-letter-176
Philosophy Quotes
26 Dec, 11:06
“It wasn’t my day. My week. My month. My year. My life. God damn it.”
— Charles Bukowski
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— Charles Bukowski
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Philosophy Quotes
25 Dec, 15:10
✹ From today's Wisdom Letter:
“Power is given only to those who dare to lower themselves and pick it up. Only one thing matters, one thing; to be able to dare!”
— Fyodor Dostoevsky
https://philosophors.substack.com/p/the-wisdom-letter-175
“Power is given only to those who dare to lower themselves and pick it up. Only one thing matters, one thing; to be able to dare!”
— Fyodor Dostoevsky
https://philosophors.substack.com/p/the-wisdom-letter-175
Philosophy Quotes
25 Dec, 09:19
“When one door of happiness closes, another opens; but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one which has been opened for us.”
— Helen Keller
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— Helen Keller
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Philosophy Quotes
24 Dec, 14:23
✹ From today's Wisdom Letter:
“The truth is that all men having power ought to be mistrusted.”
— James Madison
https://philosophors.substack.com/p/the-wisdom-letter-174
“The truth is that all men having power ought to be mistrusted.”
— James Madison
https://philosophors.substack.com/p/the-wisdom-letter-174
Philosophy Quotes
24 Dec, 11:48
“But better to get hurt by the truth than comforted with a lie.”
— Khaled Hosseini
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— Khaled Hosseini
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Philosophy Quotes
24 Dec, 09:44
“A rat in a maze is free to go anywhere, as long as it stays inside the maze.”
— Margaret Atwood
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— Margaret Atwood
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Philosophy Quotes
24 Dec, 08:07
“Never think that war, no matter how necessary, nor how justified, is not a crime.”
— Ernest Hemingway
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— Ernest Hemingway
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Philosophy Quotes
23 Dec, 18:05
“If there's a book that you want to read, but it hasn't been written yet, then you must write it.”
— Toni Morrison
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— Toni Morrison
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Philosophy Quotes
23 Dec, 14:17
✹ From today's Wisdom Letter:
“The moment we no longer have a free press, anything can happen. What makes it possible for a totalitarian or any other dictatorship to rule is that people are not informed.”
— Hannah Arendt
https://philosophors.substack.com/p/the-wisdom-letter-173
“The moment we no longer have a free press, anything can happen. What makes it possible for a totalitarian or any other dictatorship to rule is that people are not informed.”
— Hannah Arendt
https://philosophors.substack.com/p/the-wisdom-letter-173
Philosophy Quotes
23 Dec, 07:56
“Emotional hurt is the price a person has to pay in order to be independent.”
— Haruki Murakami
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— Haruki Murakami
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Philosophy Quotes
22 Dec, 17:55
“If you do not take an interest in the affairs of your government, then you are doomed to live under the rule of fools.”
— Plato
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— Plato
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Philosophy Quotes
22 Dec, 16:39
“It may be true that you can't fool all the people all the time, but you can fool enough of them to rule a large country.”
— Will Durant
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— Will Durant
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Philosophy Quotes
22 Dec, 14:37
✹ From today's Wisdom Letter:
“I suppose it is tempting, if the only tool you have is a hammer, to treat everything as if it were a nail.”
— Abraham Maslow
https://philosophors.substack.com/p/the-wisdom-letter-172
“I suppose it is tempting, if the only tool you have is a hammer, to treat everything as if it were a nail.”
— Abraham Maslow
https://philosophors.substack.com/p/the-wisdom-letter-172
Philosophy Quotes
22 Dec, 11:15
“The truth is, everyone is going to hurt you. You just got to find the ones worth suffering for.”
— Bob Marley
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— Bob Marley
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Philosophy Quotes
22 Dec, 10:05
“Being with you and not being with you is the only way I have to measure time.”
— Jorge Luis Borges
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— Jorge Luis Borges
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Philosophy Quotes
21 Dec, 18:36
“Whatever you're meant to do, do it now. The conditions are always impossible.”
— Doris Lessing
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— Doris Lessing
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Philosophy Quotes
21 Dec, 15:44
“The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that your very existence is an act of rebellion.”
— Albert Camus
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— Albert Camus
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Philosophy Quotes
21 Dec, 14:21
✹ From today's Wisdom Letter:
“The more powerful and original a mind, the more it will incline towards the religion of solitude.”
— Aldous Huxley
https://philosophors.substack.com/p/the-wisdom-letter-171
“The more powerful and original a mind, the more it will incline towards the religion of solitude.”
— Aldous Huxley
https://philosophors.substack.com/p/the-wisdom-letter-171
Philosophy Quotes
25 Nov, 15:14
✹ From today's Wisdom Letter:
“People hasten to judge in order not to be judged themselves.”
— Albert Camus
https://philosophors.substack.com/p/the-wisdom-letter-146
“People hasten to judge in order not to be judged themselves.”
— Albert Camus
https://philosophors.substack.com/p/the-wisdom-letter-146
Philosophy Quotes
25 Nov, 11:05
“Love consists in this, that two solitudes protect and touch and greet each other.”
— Rainer Maria Rilke
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— Rainer Maria Rilke
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Philosophy Quotes
25 Nov, 07:57
“One is loved because one is loved. No reason is needed for loving.”
— Paulo Coelho
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— Paulo Coelho
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Philosophy Quotes
24 Nov, 21:30
“You will never be able to experience everything. So, please, do poetical justice to your soul and simply experience yourself.”
— Albert Camus
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— Albert Camus
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Philosophy Quotes
24 Nov, 16:54
✹ From today's Wisdom Letter:
“A stupid man's report of what a clever man says is never accurate, because he unconsciously translates what he hears into something that he can understand.”
— Bertrand Russell
https://philosophors.substack.com/p/the-wisdom-letter-145
“A stupid man's report of what a clever man says is never accurate, because he unconsciously translates what he hears into something that he can understand.”
— Bertrand Russell
https://philosophors.substack.com/p/the-wisdom-letter-145
Philosophy Quotes
24 Nov, 11:44
“We're all going to die, all of us, what a circus! That alone should make us love each other but it doesn't. We are terrorized and flattened by trivialities, we are eaten up by nothing.”
— Charles Bukowski
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— Charles Bukowski
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Philosophy Quotes
24 Nov, 09:58
“Life is merely terrible; I feel it as few others do. Often — and in my inmost self perhaps all the time — I doubt whether I am a human being.”
— Franz Kafka
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— Franz Kafka
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Philosophy Quotes
24 Nov, 07:40
“Growing up is losing some illusions, in order to acquire others.”
— Virginia Woolf
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— Virginia Woolf
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Philosophy Quotes
23 Nov, 20:00
“Accept suffering and achieve atonement through it — that is what you must do.”
— Fyodor Dostoevsky
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— Fyodor Dostoevsky
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Philosophy Quotes
23 Nov, 15:17
✹ From today's Wisdom Letter:
“There was a missing person inside of myself and I needed to find him.”
— Bob Dylan
https://philosophors.substack.com/p/the-wisdom-letter-144
“There was a missing person inside of myself and I needed to find him.”
— Bob Dylan
https://philosophors.substack.com/p/the-wisdom-letter-144
Philosophy Quotes
23 Nov, 12:21
“There are two tragedies in life. One is not to get your heart's desire. The other is to get it.”
— George Bernard Shaw
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— George Bernard Shaw
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Philosophy Quotes
23 Nov, 09:08
“We're born alone, we live alone, we die alone. Only through our love and friendship can we create the illusion for the moment that we're not alone.”
— Orson Welles
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— Orson Welles
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Philosophy Quotes
23 Nov, 07:49
“It is the ability to take a joke, not make one, that proves you have a sense of humor.”
— Max Eastman
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— Max Eastman
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Philosophy Quotes
22 Nov, 20:21
“And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.”
— Anaïs Nin
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— Anaïs Nin
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Philosophy Quotes
22 Nov, 17:40
“Everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of the human freedoms—to choose one’s attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one’s own way.”
— Viktor Frankl
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— Viktor Frankl
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Philosophy Quotes
22 Nov, 15:07
✹ From today's Wisdom Letter:
“Some old wounds never truly heal, and bleed again at the slightest word.”
— George R. R. Martin
https://philosophors.substack.com/p/the-wisdom-letter-143
“Some old wounds never truly heal, and bleed again at the slightest word.”
— George R. R. Martin
https://philosophors.substack.com/p/the-wisdom-letter-143
Philosophy Quotes
22 Nov, 13:31
“Always do what you are afraid to do.”
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Philosophy Quotes
22 Nov, 10:41
“A man who procrastinates in his choosing will inevitably have his choice made for him by circumstance.”
— Hunter S. Thompson
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— Hunter S. Thompson
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Philosophy Quotes
21 Nov, 11:14
“There must be those among whom we can sit down and weep and still be counted as warriors.”
— Adrienne Rich
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— Adrienne Rich
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Philosophy Quotes
20 Nov, 18:22
“The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes.”
— Marcel Proust
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— Marcel Proust
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Philosophy Quotes
20 Nov, 17:09
✹ From today's Wisdom Letter:
“You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view.”
— Harper Lee
https://philosophors.substack.com/p/the-wisdom-letter-142
“You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view.”
— Harper Lee
https://philosophors.substack.com/p/the-wisdom-letter-142
Philosophy Quotes
20 Nov, 10:55
“How about if I sleep a little bit longer and forget all this nonsense.”
— Franz Kafka
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— Franz Kafka
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Philosophy Quotes
20 Nov, 09:04
“War against a foreign country only happens when the moneyed classes think they are going to profit from it.”
— George Orwell
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— George Orwell
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Philosophy Quotes
20 Nov, 07:47
“The oppressor would not be so strong if he did not have accomplices among the oppressed.”
— Simone de Beauvoir
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— Simone de Beauvoir
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Philosophy Quotes
19 Nov, 17:48
“At the end of the day, we can endure much more than we think we can.”
— Frida Kahlo
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— Frida Kahlo
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Philosophy Quotes
19 Nov, 16:40
✹ From today's Wisdom Letter:
“I am alone in the midst of these happy, reasonable voices. All these creatures spend their time explaining, realizing happily that they agree with each other. In Heaven’s name, why is it so important to think the same things all together.”
— Jean-Paul Sartre
https://philosophors.substack.com/p/the-wisdom-letter-141
“I am alone in the midst of these happy, reasonable voices. All these creatures spend their time explaining, realizing happily that they agree with each other. In Heaven’s name, why is it so important to think the same things all together.”
— Jean-Paul Sartre
https://philosophors.substack.com/p/the-wisdom-letter-141
Philosophy Quotes
19 Nov, 09:50
“To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.”
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Philosophy Quotes
19 Nov, 08:24
“I wasn’t meant for reality, but life came and found me.”
— Fernando Pessoa
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— Fernando Pessoa
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Philosophy Quotes
18 Nov, 20:27
“One day I will find the right words, and they will be simple.”
— Jack Kerouac
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— Jack Kerouac
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Philosophy Quotes
18 Nov, 16:45
✹ From today's Wisdom Letter:
“Even with the utterly lost, to whom life and death are equally jests, there are matters of which no jest can be made.”
— Edgar Allan Poe
https://philosophors.substack.com/p/the-wisdom-letter-140
“Even with the utterly lost, to whom life and death are equally jests, there are matters of which no jest can be made.”
— Edgar Allan Poe
https://philosophors.substack.com/p/the-wisdom-letter-140
Philosophy Quotes
18 Nov, 10:44
“In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on.”
— Robert Frost
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— Robert Frost
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Philosophy Quotes
18 Nov, 08:45
“A purpose of human life, no matter who is controlling it, is to love whoever is around to be loved.”
— Kurt Vonnegut
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— Kurt Vonnegut
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Philosophy Quotes
18 Nov, 07:41
“We die. That may be the meaning of life. But we do language. That may be the measure of our lives.”
— Toni Morrison
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— Toni Morrison
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Philosophy Quotes
17 Nov, 18:22
“Perhaps one did not want to be loved so much as to be understood.”
— George Orwell
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— George Orwell
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Philosophy Quotes
17 Nov, 15:25
✹ From today's Wisdom Letter:
“The world is indeed full of peril, and in it there are many dark places; but still there is much that is fair, and though in all lands love is now mingled with grief, it grows perhaps the greater.”
— J. R. R. Tolkien
https://philosophors.substack.com/p/the-wisdom-letter-139
“The world is indeed full of peril, and in it there are many dark places; but still there is much that is fair, and though in all lands love is now mingled with grief, it grows perhaps the greater.”
— J. R. R. Tolkien
https://philosophors.substack.com/p/the-wisdom-letter-139
Philosophy Quotes
17 Nov, 12:22
“All great and precious things are lonely.”
— John Steinbeck
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— John Steinbeck
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Philosophy Quotes
17 Nov, 10:50
“I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.”
— Maya Angelou
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— Maya Angelou
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Philosophy Quotes
17 Nov, 09:15
“Another belief of mine: that everyone else my age is an adult, whereas I am merely in disguise.”
— Margaret Atwood
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— Margaret Atwood
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Philosophy Quotes
17 Nov, 08:04
“Ninety-nine percent of the people in the world are fools and the rest of us are in great danger of contagion.”
— Thornton Wilder
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— Thornton Wilder
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Philosophy Quotes
04 Nov, 10:00
“The way to learn whether a person is trustworthy is to trust him.”
— Ernest Hemingway
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— Ernest Hemingway
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Philosophy Quotes
03 Nov, 17:49
“To love at all is to be vulnerable.”
— C. S. Lewis
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— C. S. Lewis
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Philosophy Quotes
03 Nov, 15:05
✹ From today's Wisdom Letter:
“The only truly serious questions are ones that even a child can formulate.”
— Milan Kundera
https://philosophors.substack.com/p/the-wisdom-letter-128
“The only truly serious questions are ones that even a child can formulate.”
— Milan Kundera
https://philosophors.substack.com/p/the-wisdom-letter-128
Philosophy Quotes
02 Nov, 14:50
✹ From today's Wisdom Letter:
“In Paradise there are no stories, because there are no journeys. It’s loss and regret and misery and yearning that drive the story forward, along its twisted road.”
— Margaret Atwood
https://philosophors.substack.com/p/the-wisdom-letter-127
“In Paradise there are no stories, because there are no journeys. It’s loss and regret and misery and yearning that drive the story forward, along its twisted road.”
— Margaret Atwood
https://philosophors.substack.com/p/the-wisdom-letter-127
Philosophy Quotes
01 Nov, 17:47
“The best and most beautiful things in life cannot be seen or even touched, they must be felt with the heart.”
— Helen Keller
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— Helen Keller
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Philosophy Quotes
01 Nov, 15:11
✹ From today's Wisdom Letter:
“Everything faded into mist. The past was erased, the erasure was forgotten, the lie became truth.”
— George Orwell
https://philosophors.substack.com/p/the-wisdom-letter-126
“Everything faded into mist. The past was erased, the erasure was forgotten, the lie became truth.”
— George Orwell
https://philosophors.substack.com/p/the-wisdom-letter-126
Philosophy Quotes
01 Nov, 12:56
“Paradoxically, the ability to be alone is the condition for the ability to love.”
— Erich Fromm
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— Erich Fromm
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Philosophy Quotes
31 Oct, 17:39
“The good life is a process, not a state of being. It is a direction not a destination.”
— Carl Rogers
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— Carl Rogers
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Philosophy Quotes
27 Oct, 17:37
“Rest satisfied with doing well, and leave others to talk of you as they please.”
— Pythagoras
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— Pythagoras
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Philosophy Quotes
24 Oct, 11:37
“The trouble with the world is that the stupid are cocksure and the intelligent are full of doubt.”
— Bertrand Russell
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— Bertrand Russell
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Philosophy Quotes
22 Oct, 11:39
“All you have to do is say something nobody understands and they'll do practically anything you want them to.”
— J. D. Salinger
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— J. D. Salinger
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Philosophy Quotes
22 Oct, 08:54
“Nobody realizes that some people expend tremendous energy merely to be normal.”
— Albert Camus
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— Albert Camus
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Philosophy Quotes
21 Oct, 18:04
“Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.”
— Ernest Hemingway
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— Ernest Hemingway
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Philosophy Quotes
14 Oct, 09:56
“And now that you don’t have to be perfect, you can be good.”
— John Steinbeck
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— John Steinbeck
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Philosophy Quotes
13 Oct, 17:39
“Some mathematician, I believe, has said that true pleasure lies not in the discovery of truth, but in the search for it.”
— Leo Tolstoy
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— Leo Tolstoy
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Philosophy Quotes
12 Oct, 18:25
“Nothing in this world is harder than speaking the truth, nothing easier than flattery.”
— Fyodor Dostoyevsky
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— Fyodor Dostoyevsky
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Philosophy Quotes
11 Oct, 16:45
“I have a deeply hidden and inarticulate desire for something beyond the daily life.”
— Virginia Woolf
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— Virginia Woolf
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Philosophy Quotes
10 Oct, 10:43
“Music is a higher revelation than all wisdom and philosophy.”
— Ludwig van Beethoven
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— Ludwig van Beethoven
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Philosophy Quotes
09 Oct, 17:31
“I hunt everywhere for a life worth living and a knowledge worth knowing. Having roots nowhere, I have everywhere to go.”
— Elif Shafak
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— Elif Shafak
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Philosophy Quotes
06 Oct, 15:25
✹ From today's Wisdom Letter:
“You can't cross the sea merely by standing and staring at the water.”
— Rabindranath Tagore
https://philosophors.substack.com/p/the-wisdom-letter-125
“You can't cross the sea merely by standing and staring at the water.”
— Rabindranath Tagore
https://philosophors.substack.com/p/the-wisdom-letter-125
Philosophy Quotes
05 Oct, 18:16
“One must have a chaos inside oneself to give birth to a dancing star.”
— Friedrich Nietzsche
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— Friedrich Nietzsche
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Philosophy Quotes
04 Oct, 15:16
“There are misfortunes in life that no one will accept; people would rather believe in the supernatural and the impossible.”
— Alexandre Dumas
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— Alexandre Dumas
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Philosophy Quotes
03 Oct, 16:22
“Only the person who has faith in himself is able to be faithful to others.”
— Erich Fromm
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— Erich Fromm
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Philosophy Quotes
02 Oct, 09:48
“People who know little are usually great talkers, while men who know much say little.”
— Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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— Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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Philosophy Quotes
28 Sep, 15:43
✹ From today's Wisdom Letter:
“And now here is my secret, a very simple secret: It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye.”
— Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
https://philosophors.substack.com/p/the-wisdom-letter-122
“And now here is my secret, a very simple secret: It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye.”
— Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
https://philosophors.substack.com/p/the-wisdom-letter-122
Philosophy Quotes
28 Sep, 10:55
“Pain and suffering are always inevitable for a large intelligence and a deep heart.”
— Fyodor Dostoyevsky
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— Fyodor Dostoyevsky
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Philosophy Quotes
27 Sep, 11:06
“The pain of parting is nothing to the joy of meeting again.”
— Charles Dickens
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— Charles Dickens
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Philosophy Quotes
26 Sep, 15:50
“Once you teach people to say what they do not understand, it is easy enough to get them to say anything you like.”
— Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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— Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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Philosophy Quotes
26 Sep, 15:12
✹ From today's Wisdom Letter:
“Do you know when you may concede your insignificance? Before God or, perhaps, before the intellect, beauty, or nature, but not before people. Among people, one must be conscious of one's dignity.”
— Anton Chekhov
https://philosophors.substack.com/p/the-wisdom-letter-121
“Do you know when you may concede your insignificance? Before God or, perhaps, before the intellect, beauty, or nature, but not before people. Among people, one must be conscious of one's dignity.”
— Anton Chekhov
https://philosophors.substack.com/p/the-wisdom-letter-121
Philosophy Quotes
24 Sep, 11:35
“Geniuses are like thunderstorms. They go against the wind, terrify people, cleanse the air.”
— Søren Kierkegaard
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— Søren Kierkegaard
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