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Let mental culture go on advancing, let the natural sciences progress in even greater extent and depth, and the human mind widen itself as much as it desires: beyond the elevation and moral culture of Christianity, as it shines forth in the Gospels, it will not go.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
There isnt always an explanation for everything.
Ernest Hemingway
I made art a philosophy, and philosophy an art: I altered the minds of men, and the colour of things: I awoke the imagination of my century so that it created myth and legend around me: I summed up all things in a phrase, all existence in an epigram: whatever I touched I made beautiful
Oscar Wilde
Moderation sees itself as beautiful; it is unaware that in the eye of the immoderate it appears black and sober and consequently ugly-looking
Friedrich Nietzsche
Plato was a bore.
A new philosophy generally means in practice the praise of some old vice.
G. K. Chesterton
Why, ever since Adam, who has got to the meaning of this great allegory -- the world? Then we pygmies must be content to have out paper allegories but ill comprehended.
Herman Melville
Philosophy goes no further than probabilities, and in every assertion keeps a doubt in reserve.
James A. Froude
All the interests of my reason, speculative as well as practical, combine in the three following questions: 1. What can I know? 2. What ought I to do? 3. What may I hope?
Immanuel Kant
Any genuine philosophy leads to action and from action back again to wonder, to the enduring fact of mystery.
Henry Miller
Unintelligible answers to insoluble problems.
Henry Adams
Because philosophy arises from awe, a philosopher is bound in his way to be a lover of myths and poetic fables. Poets and philosophers are alike in being big with wonder.
Thomas Aquinas
Philosophy is the product of wonder.
Alfred North Whitehead
Every philosophy is tinged with the coloring of some secret imaginative background, which never emerges explicitly into its train of reasoning.
Keep me away from the wisdom which does not cry, the philosophy which does not laugh.
Kahlil Gibran
If a man has character, he has also his typical experience, which always recurs.
A novel is never anything but a philosophy expressed in images. And in a good novel the philosophy has disappeared into the images.
Albert Camus
Philosophy, n. A route of many roads leading from nowhere to nothing.
Ambrose Bierce
To be a philosopher is not merely to have subtle thoughts, nor even to found a school, but so to love wisdom as to live according to its dictates, a life of simplicity, independence, magnanimity and trust.
Henry David Thoreau
Ohne Hast, aber ohne Rast. - Without haste, but without rest.
