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Philosophy
11 quotes in the Philosophy category.
The limits of my language mean the limits of my world.
— Wittgenstein on the limits of language · Ludwig Wittgenstein · c. 1922
If a lion could speak, we could not understand him.
— Wittgenstein on the speaking lion · Ludwig Wittgenstein · c. 1953
The unexamined life is not worth living.
— Socrates on the unexamined life · Socrates · 399 BCE
We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.
— Durant on excellence as habit · Will Durant · c. 1926
The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, and wiser people so full of doubts.
— Russell on fools and fanatics · Bertrand Russell · c. 1933
If I lack awareness, why should I care what happens to me when I’m dead?
— Diogenes on caring about death · Diogenes · c. 350 BCE
The mob is the mother of tyrants.
— Diogenes on the mob and tyrants · Diogenes · c. 350 BCE
If I were not Alexander, I would wish to be Diogenes.
— Alexander on wishing to be Diogenes · Alexander the Great · c. 336 BCE
If I were not Diogenes, I would also wish to be Diogenes.
— Diogenes on wishing to be Diogenes · Diogenes · c. 336 BCE
Nature gave us one tongue but two ears so that we may listen twice as much as we speak.
— Zeno on two ears, one tongue · Zeno of Citium · c. 300 BCE
Wise men speak because they have something to say; fools because they have to say something.
— Plato on wise men and fools · Plato · c. 370 BCE