Quotes About Philosophy

Why should I vapor and play the philosopher, instead of ballasting, the best I can, this dancing balloon?

the bold sensualist will use the name of philosophy to gild his crimes.

True love transcends the unworthy object, and dwells and broods on the eternal, and when the poor interposed mask crumbles, it is not sad, but feels rid of so much earth, and feels its independency the surer.

The soul is what knows—and draws us towards—truth, beauty, and goodness. Moreover, for Emerson, each person's soul is only a part of the great, universal "over-soul." He describes the soul as a vast ocean, with our individual souls being tiny inlets into the shore. Individuality is an illusion—really, we're all connected, like fingers extending from one hand.

The dawn is my Assyria; the sun-set and moon-rise my Paphos, and unimaginable realms of faerie; broad noon shall be my England of the senses and the understanding; the night shall be my Germany of mystic philosophy and dreams.

Religion is the perception of that power which constructs the greatness of the centuries out of the paltriness of the hours.

I am thankful for small mercies. I compared notes with one of my friends who expects everything of the universe, and is disappointed when anything is less than the best, and I found that I begin at the other extreme, expecting nothing, and am always full of thanks for moderate goods.

Philosophically considered, the universe is composed of Nature and the Soul.

La naturaleza nos dotará del uniforme de prisión del partido al que nos adherimos.

Logic is the procession or proportionate unfolding of the intuition;

Oh, what have I to do with time?

Time dissipates to shining ether the solid angularity of facts.

Philosophically considered, the universe is composed of Nature and the Soul. Strictly speaking, therefore, all that is separate from us, all which Philosophy distinguishes as the NOT ME, that is, both nature and art, all other men and my own body, must be ranked under this name, NATURE. In enumerating

own fire hath sadness in it.

I hate quotes: tell me what you know.

This relation between the mind and matter is not fancied

I metodi possono essere un milione e più, ma i principi sono pochi. L'uomo che afferra i principi può scegliere con successo i suoi metodi. L'uomo che prova i metodi, ignorando i principi, avrà sicuramente dei problemi.

What is common to them all,—that perfectness and harmony, is beauty.

He has reason, as all the philosophic and poetic class have: but he has also, what they have not.--this strong solving sense to reconcile his poetry with the appearances of the world, and build a bridge from the streets of cities to the Atlantis.

The great-eyed Plato proportioned the lights and shades after the genius of our life.

It is very unhappy, but too late to be helped, the discovery we have made that we exist.

all nature is the rapid efflux of goodness executing and organizing itself.

The advantage of the ideal theory over the popular faith, is this, that it presents the world in precisely that view which is most desirable to the mind. It is, in fact, the view which Reason, both speculative and practical, that is, philosophy and virtue, take. For, seen in the light of thought, the world always is phenomenal; and virtue subordinates it to the mind.

Ralph Waldo Emerson