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Goodreads Choice Awards 2024 Opening Round

Philosopher Quotes

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Confucius
“You cannot open a book without learning something.”
― Confucius
tags: books, learning, philosopher
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Ambrose Bierce
“All are lunatics, but he who can analyze his delusion is called a philosopher.”
― Ambrose Bierce, The Collected Writings Of Ambrose Bierce
tags: delusion, humor, lunatics, philosopher
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Baruch Spinoza
“Those who wish to seek out the cause of miracles and to understand the things of nature as philosophers, and not to stare at them in astonishment like fools, are soon considered heretical and impious, and proclaimed as such by those whom the mob adores as the interpreters of nature and the gods. For these men know that, once ignorance is put aside, that wonderment would be taken away, which is the only means by which their authority is preserved.”
― Baruch De Spinoza, Ethics
tags: adoration, astonishment, authority, causation, cause, foolish, fools, gods, heresy, heretical, ignorance, impious, interpret, knowledge, miracles, mob, nature, philosopher, piety, preservation, stare, the-gods, thinking, truth, understanding, wonder
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David Hume
“Be a philosopher; but, amidst all your philosophy, be still a man.”
― David Hume, An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding
tags: man, philosopher
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Diogenes of Sinope
“Of what use is a philosopher who doesn't hurt anybody's feelings?”
― Diogenes of Sinope
tags: feelings, offend, offense, philosopher, philosophers, philosophy
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Thomas Aquinas
“Because philosophy arises from awe, a philosopher is bound in his way to be a lover of myths and poetic fables. Poets and philosophers are alike in being big with wonder.”
― Thomas Aquinas
tags: awe, fables, philosopher, philosophy, poet, poetry, wonder
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H.L. Mencken
“A philosopher is a blind man in a dark room looking for a black cat that isn't there. A theologian is the man who finds it.”
― H.L. Mencken
tags: black-cat, blind, cat, funny, humor, joke, lie, lies, looking, man, metaphysics, misattributed-h-l-mencken, philosopher, philosophy, religion, search, theologian, theology, untruth, untruthful, wishful-thinking
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Diogenes of Sinope
“A philosopher named Aristippus, who had quite willingly sucked up to Dionysus and won himself a spot at his court, saw Diogenes cooking lentils for a meal. "If you would only learn to compliment Dionysus, you wouldn't have to live on lentils."

Diogenes replied, "But if you would only learn to live on lentils, you wouldn't have to flatter Dionysus.”
― Diogenes of Sinope
tags: diogenes, greece, philosopher, philosophy
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Will Durant
“And last are the few whose delight is in meditation and understanding; who yearn not for goods, nor for victory, but for knowledge; who leave both market and battlefield to lose themselves in the quiet clarity of secluded thought; whose will is a light rather than a fire, whose haven is not power but truth: these are the men of wisdom, who stand aside unused by the world.”
― Will Durant, The Story of Philosophy: The Lives and Opinions of the World's Greatest Philosophers
tags: knowledge, philosopher, philosophy, truth
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“I have often regretted my speech, never my silence.”
― Simonides
tags: 314, 396, bc, greek, philosopher, platonic
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Mokokoma Mokhonoana
“A relationship is likely to last way longer, if each partner convinces or has convinced themselves that they do not deserve their partner, even if that is not true.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana
tags: adage, adages, africa, african, aphorism, aphorisms, arrogance, arrogant, axiom, axioms, boyfriend, boyfriends, convince, convinced, convincing, date, dating, deep, deserve, deserving, dictum, dictums, epigram, epigrams, funny, girlfriend, girlfriends, gnome, gnomes, humble, humbled, humility, humor, humorous, humour, husband, husbands, insightful, made-me-think, make-you-think, maxim, maxims, partner, partners, persuade, persuaded, persuading, philosopher, profound, proverb, proverbs, provoke-thought, quotation, quotations, quote, quote-of-the-day, quotes, relationship, satire, satirical, saying, sayings, south-africa, south-african, thought-provoking, thoughtful, true, wife, wives
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Ralph Waldo Emerson
“To the poet, to the philosopher, to the saint, all things are friendly and sacred, all events profitable, all days holy, all men divine.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson, Self-Reliance and Other Essays
tags: divine, holy, philosopher, poet, sacred
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Mokokoma Mokhonoana
“Some people avoid thinking deeply in public, only because they are afraid of coming across as suicidal.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana
tags: adage, adages, afraid, africa, african, aphorism, aphorisms, avoid, axiom, axioms, deep, depress, depressed, depressing, depression, dictum, dictums, epigram, epigrams, fear, fearful, funny, gnome, gnomes, humor, humorous, humour, impression, in-public, insightful, made-me-think, make-you-think, maxim, maxims, philosopher, philosophy, private, profound, proverb, proverbs, provoke-thought, public, quotation, quotations, quote, quote-of-the-day, quotes, satire, satirical, satirist, satirists, saying, sayings, seem, south-africa, south-african, stoic, stoicism, stoics, suicidal, suicide, think, thinker, thinkers, thinking, thought-provoking, thoughtful
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Friedrich Nietzsche
“Thus the man who is responsive to artistic stimuli reacts to the reality of dreams as does the philosopher to the reality of existence; he observes closely, and he enjoys his observation: for it is out of these images that he interprets life, out of these processes that he trains himself for life.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche, Twilight of the Idols / The Anti-Christ
tags: adam-gottbetter, artistic, human-existence, interpretation, observation, observe, philosopher, philosophy-of-life, reaction, reactions, reality-of-life, stimulation, training
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Criss Jami
“We are often taught to look for the beauty in all things, so in finding it, the layman asks the philosopher while the philosopher asks the photographer.”
― Criss Jami, Killosophy
tags: art, beauty, finding, layman, modeling, perspective, philosopher, philosophy, photographer, photography, photos, searching, searching-and-finding, teachings, vision
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Friedrich Nietzsche
“My conception of freedom. — The value of a thing sometimes does not lie in that which one attains by it, but in what one pays for it — what it costs us. Liberal institutions cease to be liberal as soon as they are attained: later on, there are no worse and no more thorough injurers of freedom than liberal institutions.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche, Twilight of the Idols
tags: concept, institution, institutions, philosopher
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Mokokoma Mokhonoana
“Some of us were brought into this troubled world primarily or only to increase our fathers’ chances of not being left by our mothers, or vice versa.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana, The Use and Misuse of Children
tags: adage, adages, africa, african, aphorism, aphorisms, axiom, axioms, bachelor, bachelors, birth, born, boyfriend, boyfriends, breakup, breakups, childfree, childless, deep, dictum, dictums, divorce, divorces, epigram, epigrams, ex, exes, father, fatherhood, fathers, funny, girlfriend, girlfriends, gnome, gnomes, humor, humorous, humour, husband, husbands, insightful, made-me-think, make-you-think, marriage, married, maxim, maxims, mom, moms, mother, mothers, philosopher, profound, proverb, proverbs, provoke-thought, quotation, quotations, quote, quote-of-the-day, quotes, relationship, relationships, satire, satirical, satirist, satirists, saying, sayings, selfish, selfishness, single, south-africa, south-african, thought-provoking, thoughtful, trouble, troubled, wife, wives, world
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Mokokoma Mokhonoana
“A premature death does not only rob one of the countless instances where one would have experienced pleasure, it also saves one from the innumerable instances where one would have experienced pain.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana
tags: adage, adages, africa, african, antinatalism, antinatalist, antinatalists, anxiety, anxious, aphorism, aphorisms, axiom, axioms, casket, caskets, coffin, coffins, dead, death, deep, depress, depressing, dictum, dictums, dying, enjoy, enjoyment, epigram, epigrams, eulogies, eulogy, funeral, funerals, funny, gnome, gnomes, humor, humorous, humour, hurt, hurting, immortal, immortality, insightful, joy, lament, laments, made-me-think, make-you-think, maxim, maxims, mortal, mortality, pain, philosopher, pleasure, pleasures, premature, premature-death, premature-deaths, profound, proverb, proverbs, provoke-thought, quotation, quotations, quote, quote-of-the-day, quotes, rob, robbed, robber, robbers, robbing, satire, satirical, satirist, satirists, saying, sayings, south-africa, south-african, stress, suffer, suffering, thought-provoking, thoughtful, worried, worry, worrying
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Mokokoma Mokhonoana
“The most upsetting thing about Society’s attitude towards disabled people is that many millions of disabled people became disabled while trying to please Society, the very same bitch that secretly regards them as subhuman.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana, The Use and Misuse of Children
tags: adage, adages, africa, african, aphorism, aphorisms, attitude, axiom, axioms, bitch, bitches, childfree, childless, deep, dictum, dictums, disability, disabled, epigram, epigrams, funny, gnome, gnomes, humor, humorous, humour, insightful, made-me-think, make-you-think, maxim, maxims, philosopher, please, profound, proverb, proverbs, provoke-thought, quotation, quotations, quote, quote-of-the-day, quotes, satire, satirical, satirist, satirists, saying, sayings, selfish-selfishness, society, south-africa, south-african, subhuman, thought-provoking, thoughtful, upset, upsetting
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Criss Jami
“A writer is one who communicates ideas and emotions people want to communicate but aren't quite sure how, or even if, they should communicate them.”
― Criss Jami, Killosophy
tags: articulate, articulation, communication, controversy, disapproval, emotions, expression, ice-breaking, ideas, people, philosopher, philosophy, prophecy, prophesy, prophet, prophetic, tension, truth, truth-telling, writers, writing
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Mokokoma Mokhonoana
“Life is a process during which one initially gets less and less dependent, independent, and then more and more dependent.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana
tags: adage, adages, adolescent, adolescents, adult, adulthood, adults, africa, african, ancient, aphorism, aphorisms, axiom, axioms, child, children, dead, death, deep, dependence, dependent, develop, developing, development, dictum, dictums, epigram, epigrams, existence, four-stages-of-life, funny, gnome, gnomes, grandparent, grandparents, grow, growing, growth, humor, humorous, humour, immortal, immortality, independence, independent, infant, infants, insightful, life, made-me-think, make-you-think, maxim, maxims, mortal, mortality, newborn, newborns, old, old-age, old-age-home, old-age-homes, phase, phases, philosopher, prepubescent, process, profound, proverb, proverbs, provoke-thought, quotation, quotations, quote, quote-of-the-day, quotes, retire, retired, retiree, retirees, retirement, satire, satirical, satirist, satirists, saying, sayings, senile, senility, south-africa, south-african, stage, stages, stages-of-life, teenage, teenager, teenagers, thought-provoking, thoughtful, young, youth, youths
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Mokokoma Mokhonoana
“Some people will hate you for not loving them.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana
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Mokokoma Mokhonoana
“We are way less likely to love someone just because they love us than we are to hate someone just because they hate us.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana
tags: adage, adages, africa, african, aphorism, aphorisms, avenge, axiom, axioms, deep, dictum, dictums, enemies, enemy, epigram, epigrams, fair, fairness, foe, foes, friend, friends, funny, gnome, gnomes, hate, hated, hater, haters, hating, humor, humorous, humour, injustice, insightful, justice, likelihood, likely, love, loving, made-me-think, make-you-think, maxim, maxims, philosopher, profound, proverb, proverbs, provoke-thought, quotation, quotations, quote, quote-of-the-day, quotes, requited-hate, requited-love, revenge, rival, rivals, satire, satirical, saying, sayings, south-africa, south-african, thought-provoking, thoughtful, tit-for-tat, unfair, unfairness, unrequited, unrequited-hate, unrequited-hatred, unrequited-love
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Abhaidev
“One must not avoid Schopenhauer. One should read him and then overcome him. It is the ladder that you must get rid of once you reach the top.”
― Abhaidev, The Gods Are Not Dead
tags: growth, growth-quotes, philosopher, philosophers, philosophy, philosophy-quotes, schopenhauer, schopenhauer-quotes, spiritual-growth
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Shah Asad Rizvi
“Caution not spirit, let it roam wild; for in that natural state dance embraces divine frequency.”
― Shah Asad Rizvi
tags: artist, artists, artists-quotes, author, bachata, baila, bailando, ballerina, ballet, ballet-dancer, ballroom, ballroom-dance, ballroom-dancing, belly-dance, belly-dancer, belly-dancing, bhangra, boogie-woogie, choreographer, choreography, contemporary-dance, dance, dance-academy, dance-class, dance-costume, dance-festival, dance-floor, dance-life, dance-photography, dance-quote, dance-quotes, dance-shoes, dance-show, dance-studio, dance-wear, dancehall-dance, dancer, dancing, dancing-with-the-stars, danza, disco-dance, disco-dancing, electronic-dance, figure-skater, figure-skating, flamenco, folk-dance, freestyle, gymnastics, ice-skating, inspirational-quotes, jazz-dance, kathak, kizomba, latin-dance, life-quotes, mambo, modern-dance, motion, motivational-quotes, movement, movements, philosopher, philosophy, poet, poetry, quote, quote-of-the-day, quotes, raqs-sharqi, reggae-dance, reggaeton, rumi, salsa, salsa-dance, samba, shah-asad-rizvi, street-dance, sway, swing-dance, tango, tap-dance, word-porn, words-of-wisdom, writer, writing, zouk, zumba-dance
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Mokokoma Mokhonoana
“Most sane human beings who are over the age of six usually act or react not as per what they genuinely feel or really think but in accordance with the expectations of those around them.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana, The Use and Misuse of Children
tags: act, adage, adages, africa, african, aphorism, aphorisms, axiom, axioms, believe, conform, conformity, deep, dictum, dictums, epigram, epigrams, expect, expectation, expectations, feel, feeling, feelings, funny, gnome, gnomes, human, human-being, human-beings, humanity, humans, humor, humorous, humour, insane, insanity, insightful, made-me-think, make-you-think, mankind, maxim, maxims, people, person, philosopher, profound, proverb, proverbs, provoke-thought, quotation, quotations, quote, quote-of-the-day, quotes, sane, sanity, satire, satirical, satirist, satirists, saying, sayings, south-africa, south-african, think, thought-provoking, thoughtful
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Jeremy Bentham
“Is it possible for a man to move the earth? Yes; but he must first find out another earth to stand upon.”
― Jeremy Bentham
tags: jeremy-bentham, philosopher, philosophy, quotes, utilitarianism
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Shah Asad Rizvi
“Life is an affair of mystery; shared with companions of music, dance and poetry.”
― Shah Asad Rizvi
tags: artist, artists, artists-quotes, author, bachata, baila, bailando, ballerina, ballet, ballet-dancer, ballroom, ballroom-dance, ballroom-dancing, belly-dance, belly-dancer, belly-dancing, bhangra, boogie-woogie, choreographer, choreography, contemporary-dance, dance, dance-academy, dance-class, dance-costume, dance-festival, dance-floor, dance-life, dance-photography, dance-quote, dance-quotes, dance-shoes, dance-show, dance-studio, dance-wear, dancehall-dance, dancer, dancing, danza, disco-dance, disco-dancing, electronic-dance, figure-skater, figure-skating, flamenco, folk-dance, freestyle, gymnastics, ice-skating, inspirational-quotes, jazz-dance, kathak, kizomba, latin-dance, life-quotes, mambo, modern-dance, motion, motivational-quotes, movement, movements, philosopher, philosophy, poet, poetry, quote, quote-of-the-day, quotes, raqs-sharqi, reggae-dance, reggaeton, rumi, salsa, salsa-dance, samba, shah-asad-rizvi, street-dance, sway, swing-dance, tango, tap-dance, word-porn, words-of-wisdom, writer, writing, zouk, zumba-dance
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Blaise Pascal
“All of humanity’s problems stem from man’s inability to sit quietly in a room alone.”
― Blaise Pascal
tags: philosopher
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Shah Asad Rizvi
“Through synergy of intellect, artistry and grace came into existence the blessing of a dancer.”
― Shah Asad Rizvi
tags: artist, artists, artists-quotes, author, bachata, baila, bailando, ballerina, ballet, ballet-dancer, ballroom, ballroom-dance, ballroom-dancing, belly-dance, belly-dancer, belly-dancing, bhangra, boogie-woogie, choreographer, choreography, contemporary-dance, dance, dance-academy, dance-class, dance-costume, dance-festival, dance-floor, dance-life, dance-photography, dance-quote, dance-quotes, dance-shoes, dance-show, dance-studio, dance-wear, dancehall-dance, dancer, dancing, danza, disco-dance, disco-dancing, electronic-dance, figure-skater, figure-skating, flamenco, folk-dance, freestyle, gymnastics, ice-skating, inspirational-quotes, jazz-dance, kathak, kizomba, latin-dance, life-quotes, mambo, modern-dance, motion, motivational-quotes, movement, movements, philosopher, philosophy, poet, poetry, quote, quote-of-the-day, quotes, raqs-sharqi, reggae-dance, reggaeton, rumi, salsa, salsa-dance, samba, shah-asad-rizvi, street-dance, sway, swing-dance, tango, tap-dance, word-porn, words-of-wisdom, writer, writing, zouk, zumba-dance
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