Philosophy & Thought: Deep Quotes

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"Human vocabulary is still not capable, and probably never will be, of knowing, recognizing, and communicating everything that can be humanly experienced and felt"

Jose Saramago, Writer

"The world is indeed comic, but the joke is on mankind"

H. P. Lovecraft, Novelist

"No greater problem is presented to the human mind"

Annie Jump Cannon, Scientist

Annie Jump Cannon

"Boundaries are actually the main factor in space, just as the present, another boundary, is the main factor in time"

Eduardo Chillida, Sculptor

Eduardo Chillida

"Only by living absurdly is it possible to break out of this infinite absurdity"

Julio Cortazar, Writer

"Every time your picture is taken, you lose a part of your soul"

Anna May Wong, Actress

"Language is not simply a reporting device for experience but a defining framework for it"

Benjamin Whorf, Scientist

"He's dreaming with his eyes open, and those that dream with their eyes open are dangerous, for they do not know when their dreams come to an end"

Hugo Pratt, Cartoonist

"Women are considered deep - why? Because one can never discover any bottom to them. Women are not even shallow"

Friedrich Nietzsche, Philosopher

Friedrich Nietzsche

"And if you gaze for long into an abyss, the abyss gazes also into you"

Friedrich Nietzsche, Philosopher

Friedrich Nietzsche

"Thoughts are the shadows of our feelings - always darker, emptier and simpler"

Friedrich Nietzsche, Philosopher

Friedrich Nietzsche

"Society exists only as a mental concept; in the real world there are only individuals"

Oscar Wilde, Dramatist

Oscar Wilde

"Every word is like an unnecessary stain on silence and nothingness"

Samuel Beckett, Playwright

Samuel Beckett

"To contemplate is to look at shadows"

Victor Hugo, Author

Victor Hugo

"We are all special cases"

Albert Camus, Philosopher

Albert Camus

"In solitude, where we are least alone"

Lord Byron, Poet

Lord Byron

"History does nothing; it does not possess immense riches, it does not fight battles. It is men, real, living, who do all this"

Karl Marx, Philosopher

Karl Marx

"The mind is like an iceberg, it floats with one-seventh of its bulk above water"

Sigmund Freud, Psychologist

Sigmund Freud

"I accept chaos, I'm not sure whether it accepts me"

Bob Dylan, Musician

Bob Dylan

"Chaos is a friend of mine"

Bob Dylan, Musician

Bob Dylan

"How can one take delight in the world unless one flees to it for refuge?"

Franz Kafka, Novelist

Franz Kafka

"What sane person could live in this world and not be crazy?"

Ursula K. Le Guin, Writer

Ursula K. Le Guin

"The paradox is really the pathos of intellectual life, and just as only great souls are exposed to passions, it is only the great thinker who is exposed to what I call paradoxes, which are nothing else than grandiose thoughts in embryo"

Søren Kierkegaard, Philosopher

Søren Kierkegaard

"Dreams are true while they last, and do we not live in dreams?"

Alfred Lord Tennyson, Poet

"The limit of every pain is an even greater pain"

Emile M. Cioran, Philosopher

Emile M. Cioran

"We all dream; we do not understand our dreams, yet we act as if nothing strange goes on in our sleep minds, strange at least by comparison with the logical, purposeful doings of our minds when we are awake"

Erich Fromm, Psychologist

Erich Fromm

"All satire is blind to the forces liberated by decay, which is why total decay has absorbed the forces of satire"

Theodor Adorno, Philosopher

Theodor Adorno

"To hate, to love, to think, to feel, to see; all this is nothing but to perceive"

David Hume, Philosopher

David Hume

"All cities are mad: but the madness is gallant. All cities are beautiful: but the beauty is grim"

Christopher Morley, Author

Christopher Morley

"Lust's passion will be served; it demands, it militates, it tyrannizes"

Marquis de Sade, Novelist

Marquis de Sade

"It is always by way of pain, one arrives at pleasure"

Marquis de Sade, Novelist

Marquis de Sade

"The universe seems neither benign nor hostile, merely indifferent"

Carl Sagan, Scientist

Carl Sagan

"If you wish to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first invent the universe"

Carl Sagan, Scientist

Carl Sagan

"We boil at different degrees"

Clint Eastwood, Actor

Clint Eastwood

"Sex is the mysticism of materialism and the only possible religion in a materialistic society"

Malcolm Muggeridge, Journalist

Malcolm Muggeridge

"Insanity - a perfectly rational adjustment to an insane world"

R. D. Laing, Psychologist

R. D. Laing

"Power is not an institution, and not a structure; neither is it a certain strength we are endowed with; it is the name that one attributes to a complex strategical situation in a particular society"

Michel Foucault, Historian

"The universe is like a safe to which there is a combination. But the combination is locked up in the safe"

Peter De Vries, Novelist

"Nothing, like something, happens anywhere"

Philip Larkin, Poet

"Sometimes I am two people. Johnny is the nice one. Cash causes all the trouble. They fight"

Johnny Cash, Musician

Johnny Cash

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