Philosopher Quotes

Choose the life that is most useful, and habit will make it the most agreeable.

A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds.

Travel, in the younger sort, is a part of education; in the elder, a part of experience.

Reading maketh a full man; conference a ready man; and writing an exact man.

He that gives good advice, builds with one hand; he that gives good counsel and example, builds with both; but he that gives good admonition and bad example, builds with one hand and pulls down with the other.

In order for the light to shine so brightly, the darkness must be present.

A prudent question is one-half of wisdom.

In taking revenge, a man is but even with his enemy; but in passing it over, he is superior.

He that will not apply new remedies must expect new evils; for time is the greatest innovator.

A bachelor's life is a fine breakfast, a flat lunch, and a miserable dinner.

I will never be an old man. To me, old age is always 15 years older than I am.

A man that studieth revenge keeps his own wounds green.

It is impossible to love and to be wise.

A little philosophy inclineth man's mind to atheism, but depth in philosophy bringeth men's minds about to religion.

Knowledge is power.

Age appears to be best in four things; old wood best to burn, old wine to drink, old friends to trust, and old authors to read.

Imagination was given to man to compensate him for what he is not; a sense of humor to console him for what he is.

Silence is the sleep that nourishes wisdom.

Two half philosophers will probably never a whole metaphysician make.

The great function of poetry is to give back to us the situations of our dreams.

So, like a forgotten fire, a childhood can always flare up again within us.

Reverie is not a mind vacuum. It is rather the gift of an hour which knows the plenitude of the soul.

Poetry is one of the destinies of speech... One would say that the poetic image, in its newness, opens a future to language.

Literary imagination is an aesthetic object offered by a writer to a lover of books.

The words of the world want to make sentences.

The subconscious is ceaselessly murmuring, and it is by listening to these murmurs that one hears the truth.

The repose of sleep refreshes only the body. It rarely sets the soul at rest. The repose of the night does not belong to us. It is not the possession of our being. Sleep opens within us an inn for phantoms. In the morning we must sweep out the shadows.

The characteristic of scientific progress is our knowing that we did not know.

Man is an imagining being.

Ideas are refined and multiplied in the commerce of minds. In their splendor, images effect a very simple communion of souls.