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33 Borderline Genius Philosophy Quotes That Read Like Instagram Captions

<br /> These are the perfect captions to make your selfie incredibly deep. 
Mélanie Berliet
December 20, 2016
“Don’t try to see what all the colors look like when they’re added up. Instead, try to get into as many (revealing) moods as possible, as many ways of responding to the sacred as you can— and this life of serial resonances with the sacred is ultimately a kind of contentedness, happiness, even joy.”
— Hubert Dreyfus, All Things Shining
Tagged: Color, Truth, Openness
“Your relevance is about as relevant as the Earth is to the billions and billions of stars in the sky.”
— Marc Ecko, Unlabel: Selling You Without Selling Out
Tagged: Relevance
“History is a nightmare from which I am trying to awake.”
— Stephen Dedalus, Ulysses
Tagged: History, Nightmare
“Who chose this face for me?”
— Stephen Dedalus, Ulysses
Tagged: Identity, Where Do We Come From?, Questions
“Why get hung up on what other people are doing if you go forward and work on what you think is best?”
— Larry Page, Digiday.com
Tagged: Work Strategies
“Philosophers have merely interpreted the world in various ways; the point is to change it.”
— Karl Marx , marxists.org
Tagged: Theory and Practice
“Gradually we become tired of the old, of what we safely possess, and we stretch out our hands again. Even the most beautiful scenery is no longer assured of our love after we have lived in it for three months, and some more distant coast attracts our avarice: possessions are generally diminished by possession.”
— Friedrich Nietzsche, The Gay Science: With a Prelude in Rhymes and an Appendix of Songs
Tagged: Awalys Move, Change, Ennui, Possession
“When we hate someone, what we hate is something in him, or in our image of him, that is part of ourselves. Nothing that isn't in us ever bothers us.”
— Hermann Hesse, Demian: The Story of Emil Sinclair's Youth
Tagged: Oneness, What We Hate When We Hate, Why We Hate, Why Do People Hate?
“Moral bitterness is a basic technique for endowing the idiot with dignity.”
— Marshall McLuhan, Media Research: Technology, Art and Communication
Tagged: Moralism, Time To Pretend
“Human knowledge is never contained in one person. It grows from the relationships we create between each other and the world, and still it is never complete.”
— Paul Kalanithi, When Breath Becomes Air
Tagged: Knowledge, Never Ending Story
“It is impossible to point out stupidity without it pointing back at you.”
— Jean Baudrillard, Cool Memories IV: 1995 - 2000
Tagged: Dealing With Ignorance
“If you look deeply into the palm of your hand, you will see your parents and all generations of your ancestors. All of them are alive in this moment. Each is present in your body. You are the continuation of each of these people.”
— Thich Nhat Hanh, A Lifetime of Peace
Tagged: Conservation, Personal History, The Continuation
“There is no wisdom, only many wisdoms— beautiful and delusional.”
— David Shields, How Literature Saved My Life
Tagged: Polytheism, Logic Against Logic, Scientific Perspectivism
“Freedom does not lie in discovering or being able to determine who we are, but in rebelling against those ways in which we are already defined, categorized, and classified.”
— John Rajchman, Michel Foucault: The Freedom of Philosophy
Tagged: Defining Freedom, Freedom, My Philosophy, Philosophical
“I wish men would begin by respecting themselves: everything else follows from that.”
— Friedrich Nietzsche, The Will To Power
Tagged: The Power of Ego, Thought Catalog or Nietzsche?, Your Value
“Rational thought imposes a limit on a person's concept of his relation to the cosmos.”
— John Nash, Les Prix Nobel 1994
Tagged: Logic Against Logic, Limits, Cosmos, The Space Outside Understanding
“If you have reasons to love someone, you don’t love them.”
— Slavoj Žižek, The Sublime Object of Ideology
Tagged: Philosophy, How To Think, Love, The Art of Awareness
“If you experience life as a communist or a capitalist, as a Muslim or a Jew, you are experiencing life in a prejudiced, slanted way; there is a barrier, a layer of fat between Reality and you because you no longer see and touch it directly.”
— Anthony De Mello, The Way to Love
Tagged: Identity, Biases, The Biases of Being Alive, Belief, Coated Eyes
“Only human eyes can weep.”
— Andrew Marvel, Dante and Derrida: Face to Face
Tagged: Tears, Crying, Sadness
“All of us want to realize ourselves as distinct persons, but we also want others — lots of others — to know that we are our own distinct selves. We do not want to be unique all alone.”
— Three American Literatures
Tagged: Identity, You And Me, Alone, Connection, Identity As Connectors
“We are fleshbots in love with an inflatable ego doll: ourselves.”
— Richard M. Doyle, Darwin's Pharmacy: Sex, Plants, and the Evolution of the Noösphere
Tagged: Ego, Fleshbots, Fleshware
“A book is a mirror. When a monkey looks in, no apostle can look out. ”
— George Lichtenberg, Forests: The Shadow of Civilization
Tagged: Mirrors, Writing, Books, Literature, Best Reading Quotes
“Embrace a philosophy of pessimism. Every human will disappoint you, and you'll do the same to them.”
— Alain de Botton, Why You Will Marry the Wrong Person
Tagged: Marriage, Human Relationships, Bad Friendship, Real Friendship
“The benefit of control and self-sovereignty—is its own kind of freedom.”
— Ryan Holiday, 29 Pieces Of Life Changing Advice I Collected By My 29th Birthday
Tagged: Constraints, The Joy of Restraint, The Freedom of Restraint
“The weight of this sad time we must obey.”
— William Shakespeare, Oxford Shakespeare: The Complete Works
Tagged: Pain, Suffering, 107 Of The Greatest Single Sentences In Literature, Perfect Sentences
“Nothing is simple, of course — least of all peace.”
— Colum McCann, Remembering an Easter Miracle in Northern Ireland
Tagged: Peace
“Most of life’s problems can be solved with a good cookie.”
— Ina Garten, Ina Garten Answers the Proust Questionnaire
Tagged: Mottos, For when things seem hard, Ina Garten
“There’s so much pressure to be good and holy that we get scared of all the parts of us that aren’t.”
— Doug Frank, Escaping the Bully-God of American Evangelicalism: An Interview with Doug Frank - The Other Journal
Tagged: Religion, Evangelicalism
“Better an imperfect dome in Florence than cathedrals in the clouds.”
— Twyla Tharp, The Creative Habit: Learn It and Use It for Life
Tagged: Writing, Creativity, Creatives, Habit, Routine
“You have to go through the fire. Avoiding the pain is why most people never resolve it. You have to dig deep, sit in it, and ugly cry.”
— Vanessa Williams, People Magazine
Tagged: For when things seem hard, The Obstacle Is The Way, Quote of the Moment