Philosophy Quotes

What shocks the virtuous philosopher, delights the chameleon poet.

Sometimes, when I see my grand daughters make small discoveries of their own, I wish I were a child.

This seems to me a philosophical question, and therefore irrelevant, question. A poet’s destiny is to love.

Nothing is so exhausting as indecision, and nothing is so futile.

There are years that ask questions and years that answer.

A man’s conscience and his judgment are the same thing, and, as the judgment, so also the conscience may be erroneous”

We may lead a horse to water we cannot make him drink; and that while we can shut a man up in a penitentiary we cannot make him penitent.

Thinking is, indeed, essentially the negation of that which is before us.

Man can do what he wills but he cannot will what he wills.

The difference between doing something and not doing something is doing something.