80 Philosophical Questions That Will Get You Go Down the Rabbit Hole

Philosophical questions

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• What is the meaning of a good life?

• Is it more important to be respected or liked?

• Have we become less happy in this age of technology?

• Are humans obligated to better themselves and will that make them happier?

• Is having a big ego a negative trait of positive trait?

• Is the most important purpose in life to find happiness?

• Do parallel universes exist?

• Does true love exist?

• Will the world be a better place if caste and religion cease to exist?

• What would you regret if you died tomorrow?

Philosophical questions to ask

• Can science discover the ultimate nature of realty? Can pure reason (or even intuition) tell us anything about the ultimate nature of reality?

• What is the meaning of rich and poor in the modern world?

• Do we control technology or is technology controlling us?

• Will a curb on buying guns and arms reduce the number of shooting sprees in the world?

• Why do we throw away food when we know people are dying of hunger?

• Will time travel be made possible in the future?

• How can we be sure there is or is not life after death?

• If death is inevitable, why bother doing anything?

• Is living life to the fullest possible?

• Are we a minuscule part of intelligent life in the universe?

Deep philosophical questions

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• Does free will exist, or is every action predetermined?

• Do thoughts have a pattern?

• Will stricter laws make a better world?

• Are we losing our right to privacy?

• If you could press a button and receive a million dollars, but one stranger would die, would you press the button?

• Is it easier to love or to be loved?

• Do acts of kindness have a motive?

• Is love simply physical desire or something more?

• Can achieving nothing make a person happy?

• Have gadgets and apps taken away emotions?

• If everyone spoke their mind would this world be a better place?

• Can spirituality make you a happy person?

• Is being obsessive about someone or something a good thing?

• Are highly intelligent people less happy than individuals with average intelligence?

• Does fate exist?

• Does an ideal government exist?

• Does life have a reason?

• What is human consciousness?

• Why do we do things we do not like to do?

• If judgment is for God, why do we pass judgment?

Unanswerable philosophical questions

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• Is human potential capable of anything?

• Is death a new beginning?

• Why does God not intervene when evil takes root in people?

• Will robots take over the world in the future?

• Does the path to salvation lie within us?

• If aliens attack, what will we do?

• Do guns protect people or kill people?

• Will racism cease to exist?

• Why is beauty associated with morality?

• Does God have supreme power?

• Will the world be a better place if caste and religion cease to exist?

• What is the meaning of true love?

• Do we change when we have power?

• Will technological advances wipe out humanity?

• Does understanding philosophy lead to progress?

• Is there a species more advanced than humans in the universe?

• If all the currencies in the world did not have monetary value, would our world be a much better place?

• Is humanity doomed to head in a destructive direction?

• Should full access to the internet be a fundamental right?

• Is peace the only way to stop war?

Funny philosophical questions

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• If you save time, when do you get it back?

• Why do we kill people for killing people to show that killing is wrong?

• If you would like to be the sun in someone’s life, will you stay 92,935,700 miles away from them?

• Why do they call it quicksand when it sucks you down slowly?

• If 9 out of 10 suffer from diarrhea, does that mean 10th one enjoys it?

• When will you free yourself, if you are a prisoner in your mind?

• Why do you want to live, if it is going to be over eventually?

• Why do you look in the mirror if you look ugly?

• Why do we laugh when someone farts?

• If a human and animal mates what is the offspring would be?

• How to use satanic rituals on toxic men or women?

• If you don’t know how to think, why do you overthink?

• What do you hate, when you see somebody you hate in public?

• Can vegetables feel pain? How can you tell?

• Can you know what it is like to be a bat?

• If a deaf man burps in the woods, and nobody is around to hear it, did it make a sound?

• Agree or disagree? Things only exist when you are looking at them.

• What makes something funny?

• How do you know you are not just in a VR computer game?

• On an airplane, when sitting in the middle seat, who gets to use the armrests?