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Philosophical questions are worth asking when nobody has a ready answer. These start at the ones you can enjoy over a drink and end at the ones that follow you home.

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Curious · 20 Philosophical Questions

Easy openers. Safe for anyone.

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Is a person the same person they were ten years ago?

Curious · 01
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Does luck exist, or just outcomes we name afterwards?

Curious · 02
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Can something be true for one person and false for another?

Curious · 03
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Is boredom useful?

Curious · 04
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Would you want to know the future if you couldn't change it?

Curious · 05
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Is it possible to do something entirely for someone else?

Curious · 06
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Does a thing have value if nobody ever sees it?

Curious · 07
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Is nostalgia honest?

Curious · 08
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Can you be happy without knowing it?

Curious · 09
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Is intelligence overrated?

Curious · 10
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Does effort matter if the outcome is the same?

Curious · 11
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Is comfort the enemy of a good life?

Curious · 12
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Can you be friends with someone you don't respect?

Curious · 13
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Is curiosity a virtue or an appetite?

Curious · 14
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Does the past exist, other than in us?

Curious · 15
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Is silence a form of dishonesty?

Curious · 16
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Can beauty be wrong?

Curious · 17
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Is it better to be interesting or kind?

Curious · 18
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Do we choose what we find funny?

Curious · 19
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Is anyone actually self-made?

Curious · 20

Difficult · 20 Philosophical Questions

Personal, but not heavy.

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Is free will real, or a story we tell after the fact?

Difficult · 01
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Is it wrong to bring someone into a world like this one?

Difficult · 02
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Does suffering have meaning, or do we assign it?

Difficult · 03
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Can a person be good if nobody ever tests them?

Difficult · 04
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Is loyalty a virtue when it protects the wrong thing?

Difficult · 05
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Does forgiveness let people off, or set you free?

Difficult · 06
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Is happiness a reasonable goal for a life?

Difficult · 07
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Would you take a pill that made you content but less honest?

Difficult · 08
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Is it moral to be comfortable while others aren't?

Difficult · 09
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Do we owe anything to people we'll never meet?

Difficult · 10
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Is identity something you discover or something you build?

Difficult · 11
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Can love exist without need?

Difficult · 12
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Is truth worth more than peace?

Difficult · 13
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Is a life of quiet duty wasted?

Difficult · 14
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Do we deserve credit for talents we didn't choose?

Difficult · 15
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Is regret useful, or just pain repeating?

Difficult · 16
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Would the world be better with more honesty or more kindness?

Difficult · 17
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Is loneliness a failure of society or a fact of being a person?

Difficult · 18
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Can you judge a life by its ending?

Difficult · 19
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Is meaning found or manufactured?

Difficult · 20

Unanswerable · 20 Philosophical Questions

The ones that stay with you.

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If nobody remembers you, did your life happen?

Unanswerable · 01
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What makes a life worth continuing?

Unanswerable · 02
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Is there a difference between being alive and being present?

Unanswerable · 03
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Would you live forever if everyone you love wouldn't?

Unanswerable · 04
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Is it better to have loved and lost, honestly, or never to have known?

Unanswerable · 05
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What would you have to believe to be at peace?

Unanswerable · 06
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If you could know the meaning of your life, would you ask?

Unanswerable · 07
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Is death what gives life its shape?

Unanswerable · 08
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What do you owe the person you used to be?

Unanswerable · 09
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Would you erase your worst memory if it made you someone else?

Unanswerable · 10
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Is it possible to know another person?

Unanswerable · 11
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What would you do if nothing you did mattered?

Unanswerable · 12
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Is the self anything more than a story told in order?

Unanswerable · 13
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Would you rather be right about everything or loved by everyone?

Unanswerable · 14
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What survives of a person?

Unanswerable · 15
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Is there anything you would die for, and why that?

Unanswerable · 16
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If your life were a book, would you finish it?

Unanswerable · 17
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What is the last thing you'd want to understand?

Unanswerable · 18
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Does anything actually need to exist?

Unanswerable · 19
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If you could ask one question and be certain of the answer, what would you ask?

Unanswerable · 20

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