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These 50 Philosophy Memes Might Either Give You An Existential Crisis Or Solve All Your Problems
Classical philosophers may have been sulking loners lost in their existential musings. But modern philosophers and philosophy students were born in the age of the Internet. The time when nothing makes sense and everything can be turned into a meme.
So, even our biggest existential fears and theories about the meaning of life can be funny. Don't believe me? Check out this selection of funny posts from the Instagram page "philosophy.memes" that, according to its creator, aims to fuel our existential crisis as we fail our thoughts. Memito ergo sum, or whatever Descartes said.
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HistoryNerd 4 months ago
Additionally, BrunoVI, the immigrant workers still get the lowest paying jobs without benefits that most "Americans" consider to be "beneath" them, the job the idiot lost was just cut for profit 's sake.
Robert Beveridge 4 months ago
Oh ffs, Bruno is still at it? PLEASE, BP, start allowing us to block users.
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Nix 3 months ago
If you hate immigrants, and/or have ever accused them of taking away jobs, you better be the first to rush out there to take over those low paying, backbreaking farm jobs they're leaving behind. I expect to see a sea of red MAGAt hats in those fields, showing us the amazing work ethic they keep telling us they have.
Forrest Hobbs 4 months ago
The policy of importing workers was ended with the abolition of the slave trade (various dates, various places). These days, people are free and make their own decisions. The insane bit is the rich and powerful sending out the message that foreigners are to blame for low wages and/or lack of employment opportunities. It's all lies intended to distract the workers from the real enemy - which is the bosses. "To free ourselves from our technofeudal overlords, we must think like Karl Marx" https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/jul/03/marxism-economy-populism-tech-karl-marx
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Lotekguy 4 months ago
Bring bananas for tuition, rather than the usual scale purpose.
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SomeGurlOnline 4 months ago
https://www.history.com/articles/was-jesus-real-historical-evidence "It means that she or he, like 99.99% of the rest of the world at the time, made no impact on the archaeological record." Like me apparently, well so far, I guess.
Lillie Prots 4 months ago
Still very important to note that He befriended them and they turned from their sin. He DID NOT leave them in their sin, He gave them new lives.
How many humanitarians debating whether to major in Philosophy have heard that a philosophy degree is useless? Probably at least every other one. We can debate the practicality of "being a philosopher" all we want, but we cannot deny the statistics showing that young people are still choosing Philosophy as their major.
Private Wake Forest University, for example, reported a nearly 300% increase in Philosophy students in 2021-2022 compared to 1997-1998. For comparison, they point to their Politics & International Affairs department, where the number of students graduating grew by only 125% in the same period.
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Don't listen to me 4 months ago (edited)
Currently 5½ years old and counting. Why is that a problem?
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🤣🤣🤣 (Me while reading bp) 4 months ago
Wait till you get to 2025, you will be longing for 2020
"But that's just one university!" you'll say. Well, not quite. In 2022, UC Berkeley saw a significant rebound in students interested in humanities education, too. Compared to five years ago, the number of students majoring in the Division of Arts and Humanities rose by 43.2%. And in comparison to 10 years ago, it's now up by 73%.
Philosophy may be having a moment in Canadian universities as well. Athabasca University reported a 12% increase in students taking philosophy courses in 2021. At the University of British Columbia, the number of philosophy honours students has risen by 17% too. The number of philosophy majors and honours students rose from 65 to 80 between 2014-2015 and 2019-2020 at the University of Alberta.
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CP 4 months ago
Desire paths. Why do we try to force people into a box instead of making a box for people.
This panda says ur worth it 4 months ago
Osu campus actually did that it’s pretty cool
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Michael Largey 4 months ago
This has less to do with the Pythagorean Theorem than the Triangle Inequality Theorem - The sum of the lengths of any two sides of a triangle is always greater than the length of the third side. (True whether it's a right triangle or not.)
Janissary35680 4 months ago
Which is an outcome of the definition of a straight line as the shortest distance between two points in a plain.
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Luke Branwen 4 months ago
Yes, all houses matter, but you should still prioritize the one that's on fire.
Michael Largey 4 months ago
Yes, "All lives matter" is the goal. But we haven't achieved it yet. That's what were working on, people. Join us.
Julietta Dyer 4 months ago
I agree to an extent, the Black Lives Matter movement is a wave of progression and supporting and undervalued minority that has been oppressed for decades. However when extremist use this movement to disregard and belittle other races including other minorities then the entire meaning is lost. What is the point in living up a community if others who don’t classify are being shoved down. We are all people with struggles and hardships. Love each other regardless or race, sexual orientation, or political standing. Jesus was a lover of all including s*x workers and murderers. Why would you use his work as a way of putting down and ostracizing a group you don’t agree with? The action of hating someone for who they are or how they identify goes against the very argument of love thy neighbor. You don’t have to be religious to respect and understand someone’s decision. Cruelty disguised as righteousness is still cruelty.
Smeghead Tribble Down Under 4 months ago
Sorry but have to agree with ''all cancers matter''. Many cancers are ignored and their research miserably underfunded because they aren't as ''glamorous''.
Wondering Alice 4 months ago
Brest cancer awareness campaigns are designed to prompt people to check their breasts. This saves lives. Odd ball campaign encouraging men to discuss worries about testicals saves lives. These early interventions mean that any treatment can be quick and effective and much cheaper - leaving a lot more resources to treat the less detectable cancers. During awareness campaigns, there is also a rise in people confronting issues they have been putting off. This saves lives.
Load More Replies...Young people might be turning to philosophy to make sense of the world in these tumultuous times. One student, Matthew Rowe, told UC Berkeley News that studying philosophy helps him understand and deal with the apathy people have for the current big issues, such as the climate crisis.
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CP 4 months ago
The president is a prime example. The education of the electorate is is the key.
FlamingZombies 4 months ago
It's more because of the antiquated Electoral College. Which was only implemented to quell the fears of slave states of not having a voice in the presidential election.
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SomeGurlOnline 4 months ago
If you can't see the artistry in the left picture, then you can't see the artistry in democracy.
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Luke Branwen 4 months ago
Lmao someone watched too much Game of Thrones. Miss me with this Hobbesian nonsense.
Robert Beveridge 4 months ago
But I'm an existentialist, reality doesn't exist except through our shared perception, so
"Philosophy, in my opinion, asks more fundamental questions that seem to transcend global topics, such as politics, in terms of their everyday importance," he explained. "The problem largely has to do with how people have such a hard time comprehending the size and magnitude of the environmental crisis that they often turn apathetic toward it, in response."
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Robert Beveridge 4 months ago
Just occurred to me how much Freddie would've LOVED the smartphone 😂
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Nota Robot 4 months ago
I'm more on the Indiana Jones side of this picture, which is probably on the other side of the vase
LooseSeal's $10 Banana 4 months ago
And happiness! At least one imagines.
Load More Replies... SomeGurlOnline 4 months ago (edited)
Don't forget what Albert Camus had to say about it. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Myth_of_Sisyphus
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Camber Hollywood 4 months ago
She doesn't look like toilet paper, so probaly not.
Load More Replies...If you've ever tried reading any philosopher's work (and not the SparkNotes version), whether for school or just for fun, you've probably experienced that it's not actually that fun (try Anti-Oedipus by Deleuze and Guattari and get back to me, if you don't believe).
Most great thinkers have used overly complex, sophisticated language, assuming that the readers will be noble intellectuals or at least members of the upper class. Philosophy is about humanity, but is it actually for humanity?
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troufaki13 4 months ago
Fun fact: the word gym - gymnasium comes from the greek word that means naked 🤭
Robert Beveridge 4 months ago
I had to use one of these while relearning to walk in 2012...i know you are necessary but you remain my arch-nemesis!
Cambridge philosopher Simon Blackburn claims that the old masters of philosophy, from Plato to Wittgenstein, actually wrote for the people. Since Kant, Hegel, and other German philosophers, the subject apparently became corrupted. The concepts and the language have become so convoluted that philosophy has since been for the select few.
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Steve Riddle 4 months ago
Primitive Religion for people who drive Cars but think the Earth is Flat.
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ThatAussieIdiot(He/Him/Aussie) 4 months ago (edited)
90% of Greek mythology is just this guy getting h o r n y. The other 10% was everybody else getting h o r n y.
Yet non-fiction cultural writer Stuart Walton disagrees. Just as many specialists (physicists, for example), philosophers have their own complex language. And claims that philosophy used to be more accessible are pretty ridiculous, too.
"It seems a reckless wager at best to portray Plato as 'writing for humanity,'" Walton writes. "When the philosophers in his ideal state are to be kings – that is, not just good at what they do, but rulers over the rest in a hierarchically ordered, rigidly unified polity. If ever a thinker wrote for his own kind, it was him."
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Kathy Brooke 4 months ago
The chemist: the glass is full, half full of liquid, half full of gas.
TheElementalGod️️ (He/him) 4 months ago
The physicist: atoms are mostly empty space
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keyboardtek 4 months ago
The engineer: the container is the wrong size for the volume of the liquid.
Uncle Panda 4 months ago
The administrator: Who ordered glasses that were twice the size needed?
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Alex Ruddies 4 months ago
Quantum physicist: the state of the glass is either until observed and measured...
A philosophy graduate's chances of employment may be significantly lower than those of others. But there's at least one exciting prospect: being the curator of a successful philosophy memes page!
Let us know which of these funny pics you found the most entertaining by upvoting them, Pandas! And if you want to see more philosophy humor, check out some more relatable memes right here!
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Michael Largey 4 months ago
If you think everyone else's life is worthless, it's much easier to accept thinking that your own is.
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Nosirrow 4 months ago
No. That's the whole freaking point. We all influence one another. If anyone is down or struggling, it's a reflection of his family and other people. Veterinarians supposedly commit s left, right and centre bc they have access to meds and see too often neglectful and a*****e people who have zero conscience. That can take away the will to live.
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Auntriarch 4 months ago
You are welcome to your own opinion. However, if you think I am anything other than fabulous, we will be unable to agree.
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Robert Beveridge 4 months ago
We all live in cages, most of us just call them "apartments" (or fill in the more upscale domicile)
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Highfalutin Heron 4 months ago
Reminds of undergrad physics dept T-shirts one year in the early 90s: "S*x kills. Become a physics major and live forever."
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Woof Yo 4 months ago
I am childfree, but I wouldn't ever say anything like this to my friends with kids. They have enough stress on their plate. And I wouldn't say it to my fellow 'dependent-less' folk either - cuz it might devastate them to hear something like that if they had wanted children and weren't able to. I don't wish to imply that this meme's message is invalid! The message is precisely one of the reasons I chose to not have children. There are just too many unknowns and this is a subject that requires a little extra compassion.
SomeGurlOnline 4 months ago (edited)
Hi Woof Yo, I totally understand and agree, being child-free (intentionally) is one of the last things you can talk about freely-- I mean at least that I know about, who knows if what comes next? Back to the subject: I feel like I can't talk about it with new young couples and _never_ older couples going through IVF. I feel I can only talk about it with my husband and I internet strangers.
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Child-free since '83! (the year I was sprung unto this world) I mean I can't change the fact I was born, but why would I want to inflict that on anyone else, in this day and age, especially in the US?
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Janet Sparrow 4 months ago
As a philosophy, major, I really appreciated all of these. I chose law instead of going into teaching on the college level, but I’m pretty happy. I still read philosophy and I still discuss it with my friends.
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SomeGurlOnline 4 months ago
As far as I know it, Nihilism doesn't mean life means nothing and therefore it's all suffering and b*llsh*t. Nihilism to me means life means nothing, so don't take it too seriously and therefore take joy in what you can while you're still here on this plane of existence. Please come at me. I like philosophy...
k1ddkanuck 4 months ago
I want to believe in nihilism, but then I'd have to believe in something. I'm way too original for that. /s
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Alex Ruddies 4 months ago
My friend, may I introduce you to Albert Camus...
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BrunoVI 4 months ago (edited)
The idea in medieval education was that the philosophers would also study theology, economics, politics, science (then called natural philosophy), geography, etc. The priests who founded such schools wanted rulers (yes, mostly lay people) who would be competent in how to bring happiness to their constituents. This was before humanism was just an abbreviation for "secular humanism," but was a fairly unique notion that God wanted what was best for humans as opposed to gods, animals, etc.
Camber Hollywood 4 months ago
The highest degree in most subjects is still Doctor of Philosophy (PhD).
Load More Replies... Michael Largey 4 months ago
See Mel Brooks "History of the World, Part I" for the best job description of a philosopher.
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CP 4 months ago
Philosophers understand that you might not get it the first time through. No one can control whether they understand a concept or not.
Anthony Elmore 4 months ago
Honestly, I feel like you have to have that (at least) second read. Once for raw impressions, and the second-through-fifth times for your impression once you understand the over-arching concepts and themes of the piece.
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Cougar Allen 4 months ago (edited)
Suffering exists, it has a cause, it can end, there is a path to achieve that end.
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Anthony Elmore 4 months ago
They tell you that humans are creatures of reason and that's what makes them human, but in reality, it's our irrationality that makes us human. It is our propensity to look at a situation and then act in a way that is objectively wrong, and with unfortunate frequency, that makes us human. You want rational? You get a rock. A rock will, without fail, always act in the most rational manner. Drop it and it falls. You kick it and it flies. But only a human is going to look over centuries of economic data and come to the conclusion that the other country is going to pay for the tariffs.
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k1ddkanuck 4 months ago
Technically two. The cat is riding a penny-farthing, which utilizes a small wheel at the back for stabilization. You can tell by the curved bar beneath the cat's tail, to which the aforesaid rear wheel is attached. And yes, I am very fun at parties.
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SomeGurlOnline 4 months ago (edited)
But please take comfort in that their perception of you is _nothing_ close to your own life experience. Unless they're your "soulmate", they _don't_ know you. Edit: and probably don't really, and I mean really and truly care.
Majestic Narwhal 4 months ago
It’s been my experience that “a soulmate” is a narcissistic trap
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Cougar Allen 4 months ago
I never type "Well, actually ..." on the net. Instead I start off in all caps: BORING FACT CHECK — DO NOT READ
Michael Largey 4 months ago
I have found that "actually" is the word children usually use when they begin correcting adults.
Dan Holden 4 months ago
Well, actually an opinion isn't even necessary. If someone says "2+2=5", and someone responds "well actually, 2+2=4", they would be correct. They've stated a fact, not an opinion.
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Nosirrow 4 months ago
Ooh, just got it. When I was little, I told my brother a sister of a neighbour called Kinga calls her Kinder. Brother said it's correct. Yes, Kinga was a child but it's not correct, you gaslighting idiot. That's my interaction with all people ever. Lying to my face, no matter how dumb the lie is.
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Michael Largey 4 months ago (edited)
"If you examine your mind with your mind, how can you avoid confusion?" - Buddha
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BrunoVI 4 months ago (edited)
Does OP mean if Clovis HADN"T been there? He defeated Arians, who argued the Old Testament and the epistles which argue based on it should not be included in the bible, although I think it'd be hard to argue that but for Clovis, Arianism would be universally accepted, merely that it would remain in much the same way Protestantism remains.
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Rick Murray 4 months ago
Second time this has come up in this list. Hmmm, interesting......
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You can resurrect a ton of usefulness out of Freud when you just simply realize that he has no reason to believe his psychosexual development was at the final stage. So much of his methods just scream out that he inherited Luther's presumptions, but his defining of the unconscious created a scientific basis for the concept of concupiscence (the notion that present sin creates a natural tendency towards future sin) that forms the basis of Catholicism's rejection of sola fides and insistence on prevening grace. Freud was simply sexually fixated, and therein lies the source of so much of what seems to have disproven so much of his work, or at least made it disreputable.
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Anthony Elmore 4 months ago
That's a really round-about way to all avoid telling your tag that you're currently being teabagged by a 13-year-old going by the name "xXMrMcDoucheswizzleXx78".
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Nosirrow 4 months ago
I think it's partly caused by others' attitude towards you. I create neutral-positive atmosphere and give people time to think before they speak. But others want to dominate the conversation and make people doubt themselves, so people stutter and so on.
BrunoVI 4 months ago
Was the person who downvoted this being deliberately ironic, or just an idiot?
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