Philosophy quotes

Explore the profound depths of human wisdom and thought with our collection of diverse and thought-provoking philosophical quotes. Gain a deeper understanding of life's fundamental questions and unravel the complexities of existence through the lens of philosophy.

A warrior who is prepared to fight must also be prepared to die.

- Sun Tzu

When you can't go back, you have to worry only about the best way of moving forward.

- Paulo Coelho

But when the strong were too weak to hurt the weak, the weak had to be strong enough to leave.

- Milan Kundera

Because to love is to renounce strength.

- Milan Kundera

Anyone whose goal is 'something higher' must expect someday to suffer vertigo. What is vertigo? Fear of falling? No, Vertigo is something other than fear of falling. It is the voice of the emptiness below us which tempts and lures us, it is the desire to fall, against which, terrified, we defend ourselves.

- Milan Kundera

Sad company is bad company.

- Milan Kundera

People are always shouting they want to create a better future. It's not true. The future is an apathetic void of no interest to anyone.

- Milan Kundera

Only when a person reaches old age can he stop caring about the opinions of his fellows, or of the public, or of the future.

- Milan Kundera

Tell me, where in life is there a value that would make us consider suicide uncalled for on principle! Love? Or friendship? I guarantee that friendship is not a bit less fickle than love and it is impossible to build anything on it. Self-love? I wish it were possible.

- Milan Kundera

Not only have people stopped trying to be attractive when they are out among other people, but they are no longer even trying not to look ugly!

- Milan Kundera

The Greek word for "return" is nostos. Algos means "suffering." So nostalgia is the suffering caused by an unappeased yearning to return.

- Milan Kundera

The greater the time we have left behind, the more irresistible is the voice that invites us to return.

- Milan Kundera

No love can survive muteness.

- Milan Kundera

Suicide is worse than murder. One can murder for vengeance or out of greed, but even greed is the expression of a perverted love of life. But to commit suicide is to throw one's life down contemptuously at God's feet.

- Milan Kundera

We can never know what to want, because, living only one life, we can neither compare it with our previous lives nor perfect it in our lives to come.

- Milan Kundera

Two people in love, alone, isolated from the world, that's beautiful.

- Milan Kundera

Speak truth to power.

- Milan Kundera

Solitude: a sweet absence of looks.

- Milan Kundera

Scepticism does not abolish the world, it turns it into questions.

- Milan Kundera

People fascinated by the idea of progress never suspect that every step forward is also a step on the way to the end.

- Milan Kundera

People are going deaf because music is played louder and louder, but because they're going deaf, it has to be played louder still.

- Milan Kundera

Pain doesn't listen to reason, it has it's own reason, which is not reasonable

- Milan Kundera

Only animals were not expelled from Paradise.

- Milan Kundera

In eroticism as dance: one of the partners is always charged with leading the other.

- Milan Kundera

If those who know why and how neglect to act, those who do not know will act, and the world will continue to flounder.

- Alfred Korzybski

There are two ways to slide easily through life; to believe everything or doubt everything. Both ways save us from thinking.

- Alfred Korzybski

The map is not the territory.

- Alfred Korzybski

The abuse of symbolism is like the abuse of food or drink: it makes people ill, and so their reactions become deranged.

- Alfred Korzybski

Ignorance is no excuse when once we know that ignorance is the only possible excuse.

- Alfred Korzybski

Musical training is a more potent instrument than any other, because rhythm and harmony find their way into the inward places of the soul.

- Plato