Practical Philosophy Quotes

Select Philosophy quotes to help explore and advance your #philosophy of life. Curated by @martinjanello. For a more systematic approach, see the website below.

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"We are possessed by the things we possess."

Jean-Paul Sartre

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"'I think, I am' has been, since Cartesius, the fundamental error in all knowledge; Thinking is not my thinking, and being is not my being, because everything is only God's or the All's."

F.W.J. Schelling

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“A government which robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend on the support of Paul.”

George Bernard Shaw

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“A government which robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend on the support of Paul.”

George Bernard Shaw

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"'I think, I am' has been, since Cartesius, the fundamental error in all knowledge; Thinking is not my thinking, and being is not my being, because everything is only God's or the All's."

F.W.J. Schelling

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“The beautiful is a bliss of the whole person, the spiritual and the sensual; it satisfies our reason and our conscience by pleasing the ear and refreshing and delighting the eye.“

Moritz Carrière

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"We are possessed by the things we possess."

Jean-Paul Sartre

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"You must give birth to your images. They are the future waiting to be born."

Rainer Maria Rilke

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"Every pleasure has sprung from need, and only in pain does the dearest thing that my heart has enjoyed, the sweet charm of humanity, thrive."

Friedrich Hölderlin

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“When a man wants to murder a tiger he calls it sport; when a tiger wants to murder him he calls it ferocity.”

George Bernard Shaw

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"In each individual, nature sees itself from a special point of view."

Johann Gottlieb Fichte

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"[A scholar] should be the morally best person of his age: he should represent the highest level of moral education possible for him."

J.G. Fichte

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"The sweetest things become the most bitter by excess."

Democritus

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"Education perverts the mind since we are directly opposing the natural development of our mind by obtaining ideas first and observations last. This is why so few men of learning have such sound common sense as is quite common among the illiterate."

Arthur Schopenhauer

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"No person on earth has the right to leave their powers unused and to live through the forces of others."

Johann Gottlieb Fichte

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“Anyone who is too disgusted with the finite will not achieve any reality at all, but will remain in the abstract and fade into himself.” 

Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

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"This interconnection ... of all created things to each other ... brings it about that each simple substance has relations that express all the others, and consequently, that each simple substance is a perpetual, living mirror of the universe."

Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz

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"Truth exists for the wise, beauty for the feeling heart.

Friedrich Schiller

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“When philosophy paints its gray in gray, then a figure of life has grown old, and with gray in gray it cannot be rejuvenated, but only recognized; Minerva's owl only begins its flight as dusk falls."

G.W.F. Hegel

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"The perfected mind is the one that no longer needs to go out of itself, that is completely complete and resolved in itself."

F.W.J. Schelling

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