Philosophy & Thought: Deep Quotes

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"Eroticism is assenting to life even in death"

Georges Bataille, Writer

"The most merciful thing in the world... is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents"

H. P. Lovecraft, Novelist

"Sacrifice is nothing other than the production of sacred things"

Georges Bataille, Writer

"Radical simply means 'grasping things at the root'"

Angela Davis, Activist

"Being an intellectual creates a lot of questions and no answers"

Janis Joplin, Musician

Janis Joplin

"Situational variables can exert powerful influences over human behavior, more so that we recognize or acknowledge"

Philip Zimbardo, Psychologist

"We keep passing unseen through little moments of other people's lives"

Robert M. Pirsig, Philosopher

"Turn on, Tune in, Drop out"

Timothy Leary, Educator

"Do not look at stars as bright spots only. Try to take in the vastness of the universe"

Maria Mitchell, Scientist

"Woman are complex creatures"

Talib Kweli, Musician

"There is a thin line between politics and theatricals"

Julian Bond, Activist

"To pretend, I actually do the thing: I have therefore only pretended to pretend"

Jacques Derrida, Philosopher

"Prometheus is reaching out for the stars with an empty grin on his face"

Arthur Koestler, Novelist

"Consciousness is what makes the mind-body problem really intractable"

Thomas Nagel, Philosopher

"I am convinced that we are in a terminal process"

E. P. Thompson, Historian

"Perhaps I know best why it is man alone who laughs; he alone suffers so deeply that he had to invent laughter"

Friedrich Nietzsche, Philosopher

Friedrich Nietzsche

"The world itself is the will to power - and nothing else! And you yourself are the will to power - and nothing else!"

Friedrich Nietzsche, Philosopher

Friedrich Nietzsche

"It is the most sensual men who need to flee women and torment their bodies"

Friedrich Nietzsche, Philosopher

Friedrich Nietzsche

"Only the shallow know themselves"

Oscar Wilde, Dramatist

Oscar Wilde

"Thinking is more interesting than knowing, but less interesting than looking"

Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe, Writer

Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

"Do what you will, this world's a fiction and is made up of contradiction"

William Blake, Poet

William Blake

"Now comes the mystery"

Henry Ward Beecher, Clergyman

"Western man is schizophrenic"

J.B. Priestley, Writer

J.B. Priestley

"London is a modern Babylon"

Benjamin Disraeli, Statesman

Benjamin Disraeli

"Man is an intelligence in servitude to his organs"

Aldous Huxley, Novelist

Aldous Huxley

"Life is wasted on the living"

Douglas Adams, Writer

Douglas Adams

"The human being is, in the most literal sense, a political animal, not merely a gregarious animal, but an animal which can individuate itself only in the midst of society"

Karl Marx, Philosopher

Karl Marx

"Don't you believe that there is in man a deep so profound as to be hidden even to him in whom it is?"

Saint Augustine, Saint

Saint Augustine

"Habit is a second nature that destroys the first. But what is nature? Why is habit not natural? I am very much afraid that nature itself is only a first habit, just as habit is a second nature"

Blaise Pascal, Philosopher

Blaise Pascal

"Men know they are sexual exiles. They wander the earth seeking satisfaction, craving and despising, never content. There is nothing in that anguished motion for women to envy"

Camille Paglia, Author

Camille Paglia

"To be conscious means not simply to be, but to be reported, known, to have awareness of one's being added to that being"

William James, Philosopher

William James

"Perhaps the only true dignity of man is his capacity to despise himself"

George Santayana, Philosopher

George Santayana

"Metaphysics is a dark ocean without shores or lighthouse, strewn with many a philosophic wreck"

Immanuel Kant, Philosopher

Immanuel Kant

"Who in the world am I? Ah, that's the great puzzle!"

Lewis Carroll, Author

Lewis Carroll

"I am attracted to myths"

Tina Turner, Musician

Tina Turner

"Men are by nature merely indifferent to one another; but women are by nature enemies"

Arthur Schopenhauer, Philosopher

Arthur Schopenhauer

"It was completely fruitless to quarrel with the world, whereas the quarrel with oneself was occasionally fruitful and always, she had to admit, interesting"

Søren Kierkegaard, Philosopher

Søren Kierkegaard

"Boredom is the root of all evil - the despairing refusal to be oneself"

Søren Kierkegaard, Philosopher

Søren Kierkegaard

"Thou art not for the earth, nor for the Heaven, the world is for thee, thou art not for the world"

Muhammad Iqbal, Poet

Muhammad Iqbal

"Physiologically less violent and psychologically more suitable to a concrete type of mind"

Muhammad Iqbal, Poet

Muhammad Iqbal

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