Philosophical Quotes

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When I die, I will not see myself die, for the first time.
- W.S. Merwin

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We become aware of the void as we fill it.
- W.S. Merwin

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I stop wanting what I am looking for, looking for it.
- W.S. Merwin

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You are fastened to them and cannot understand how, because they are not fastened to you.
- Antonio Porchia

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Sometimes it’s necessary to go a long distance out of the way in order to come back a short distance correctly.
- Edward Albee

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Man is not measured by his normality, but rather by his deviation from it.

Submitted by Garrett L. Duyck.
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We never know we are beings till we love. And then it is we know the powers and potentialities of human existence.
- Jean Toomer

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Love is like quicksilver in the hand. Leave the fingers open and it stays. Clutch it, and it darts away.
- Dorothy Parker

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My advice to you is not to inquire why or whither, but just enjoy your ice cream while it is on your plate.
- Thornton Wilder

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The obstacle is the path.
- Zen Proverb

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We are spirits clad in veils.
- Christopher P. Cranch

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What will survive of us is love.
- Philip Larkin

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By daily dying I have come to be.
- Theodore Roethke

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We learn only from those we love.
- Johann Eckermann

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I am a part of all that I have met.
- Alfred Lord Tennyson

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A loving heart is the truest wisdom.
- Charles Dickens

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Whoso loves believes the impossible.
- Elizabeth Barrett

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One man’s quiet is another man’s din.
- Carrie Latet

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Seeking is not always the way to find.
- Augustus William Hare

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Forgiveness is the final form of love.
- Reinhold Niebuhr

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Astonishment is the root of philosophy.
- Paul Tillich

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A gun gives you the body, not the bird.
- Henry David Thoreau

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Skin is a covering for our immortality.
- Ever Garrison

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A thousand men can’t undress a naked man.
- Greek Proverb

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Knock on the sky and listen to the sound.
- Zen Proverb

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Before I travelled my road I was my road.
- W.S. Merwin

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It must be so, Plato, thou reason’st well!
- Joseph Addison

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You cannot step into the same river twice.
- Heraclitus

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History is Philosophy teaching by examples.
- Thucydides

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Will localizes us; thought universalizes us.
- Henri Frederic Amiel

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What deep wounds ever closed without a scar?
- George Gordon

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There are some remedies worse than the disease.
- Publilius Syrus

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Philosophy is the science which considers truth.
- Aristotle

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The foot feels the foot when it feels the ground.
- Buddha

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Man was born free, and everywhere he is in chains.
- Jean Jacques Rousseau

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Some people walk in the rain, others just get wet.
- Roger Miller

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I feel lucky, happy and philosophical about it all.
- Greta Scacchi

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Who depends on another man’s table often dines late.
- John Ray

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Even a clock that does not work is right twice a day.
- Polish Proverb

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If you think you’re free, there’s no escape possible.
- Ram Dass

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