Philosophical Quotes

"The whole is greater than the sum of its parts."
— Aristotle, Metaphysics

"It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it."
— Aristotle, interpretation of fragments from De Anima

"If you would be a real seeker after truth, it is necessary that at least once in your life you doubt, as far as possible, all things."
— René Descartes, Discourse on the Method (1637)

"All our knowledge begins with experience, but it does not follow that it arises from experience."
— Immanuel Kant, Critique of Pure Reason

"A person may cause evil to others not only by his actions but by his inaction."
— John Stuart Mill, On Liberty (1859)

"The limits of my language mean the limits of my world."
— Ludwig Wittgenstein, Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus (1921)

"The most radical revolutionary will become a conservative the day after the revolution."
— Hannah Arendt, On Revolution

"Love is not simply a feeling; it is a practice of tolerance and understanding toward the Other."
— Slavoj Žižek, The Parallax View

"True freedom is the freedom to choose one's limitations."
— Slavoj Žižek, Lectures and Essays

"The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing."
— Socrates (via Plato), Apology of Socrates

"It's not what happens to you, but how you react to it that matters."
— Epictetus, Enchiridion

"We do not learn from experience… we learn from reflecting on experience."
— John Dewey, Essays on Education and Pragmatism

"Change your life today. Don’t gamble on the future, act now, without delay."
— Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex

"Science must begin with myths, and with the criticism of myths."
— Karl Popper, The Logic of Scientific Discovery

"Real knowledge is to know the extent of one's ignorance."
— Confucius, Analects