Philosophy Literature Quotes

People think love is an emotion. Love is good sense. ~ Ken Kesey

The architect represents neither a Dionysian nor an Apollinian condition: here it is the mighty act of will, the will which moves mountains, the intoxication of the strong will, which demands artistic expression. The most powerful men have always inspired the architects; the architect has always been influenced by power. ~ Friedrich Nietzsche

An honest bookstore would post the following sign above its 'self-help' section: 'For true self-help, please visit our philosophy, literature, history and science sections, find yourself a good book, read it, and think about it. ~ Roger Ebert

Conceive the condition of the human mind if all propositions whatsoever were self-evident except one, which was to become self-evident at the close of a summer's day, but in the meantime might be the subject of question, of hypothesis, of debate. Art and philosophy, literature and science, would fasten like bees on that one proposition which had the honey of probability in it, and be the more eager because their enjoyment would end with sunset. Our impulses, our spiritual activities, no more adjust themselves to the idea of their future nullity, than the beating of our heart, or the irritability of our muscles. ~ George Eliot

We think and believe that we are exceptional. We have created so many stories around how exceptional humans are. We were created by the hands of the divine, and the universe is our gift. We believe that it was all created to serve us, but the reality of the matter is, we are not exceptional except for our ability to kill beauty and destroy. We are not as fast as the gazelle or a cheetah; we can't fly like birds; we don't have fur to protect us in the cold; we don't have natural strength to lift heavy objects like a gorilla or an elephant. We created fables to explain our presence, even scientific ones that we can't prove. It is all unproven theories, on all sides. We are not exceptional; we are only exceptional when we work together and in sync with nature like every other creature. ~ Hani Selim

We must become just be doing just acts. ~ Aristotle.

Barack Obama is an elegant and literate man with a cosmopolitan sense of the world. He is widely read in philosophy, literature, and history - as befits a former law professor - and he has shown time and again a surprising interest in contemporary fiction. ~ Teju Cole

At age fifteen, Martin entered Morehouse College in an accelerated program during World War II. As the U.S. pledged to fight fascism, racism, anti-Semitism, and colonialism, King was profoundly influenced through courses in sociology, history, philosophy, literature, and religion. ~ Martin Luther King, Jr.

It is astonishing how many mental operations we can explain when we have once grasped the principles of association ~ William James

The best kind of writing is that which comes from the authors soul. ~ Ndiritu Wahome

Once
God wrote a story
that shook the heaven to the very core.
Love was the only language used;
You and I
were the only characters. ~ Subhan Zein

For there is in mankind an unfortunate propensity to make themselves, their views and their works, the measure of excellence in every thing whatsoever ~ Edmund Burke

The liberally educated person is one who is able to resist the easy and preferred answers, not because he is obstinate but because he knows others worthy of consideration. ~ Allan Bloom

I am only about half alive a large part of my strength is consumed in sitting up or walking. My nervous system is a shattered wreck, and I am absolutely bored & listless save when I come upon something which peculiarly interests me. However so many things do interest me, & interest me intensely, in science, history, philosophy, & literature; that I have never actually desired to die, or entertained any suicidal designs, as might be expected of one with so little kinship to the ordinary features of life. ~ H.P. Lovecraft

You perceive now, my friends, what your general or abstract duty is as teachers. Although you have to generate in your pupils a large stock of ideas, any one of which may be inhibitory, yet you must also see to it that no habitual hesitancy or paralysis of the will ensues, and that the pupil still retains his power of vigorous action. ~ William James

Habit is second nature, or rather ... ten times nature. ~ William James

The proverbial philosophy of a people helps us to understand more about them than any other kind of literature. ~ Lafcadio Hearn

There is one thing only which a Muslim can profitably learn from the west, the exact sciences in their pure and applied form. Only natural sciences and mathematics should be taught in Muslim schools, while tuition of European philosophy, literature and history should lose the position of primacy which today it holds on the curriculum. ~ Muhammad Asad

Poets must be grounded in the education of the arts, drama, history, mysticism, esotericism, and philosophy. To gain knowledge and become learned of the above is easy - read. Poets should apply this knowledge to their work, so a poet will advance to the next level, to their next phase of their emotional, psychological and spiritual development, growing in years in a short space of time, in hours or months if he or she is an avid reader. This knowledge will birth work that is not meretricious but of noble parentage. ~ Abigail George

If you want to consume the cream of Christ's philosophy, then don't read the Bible, read Tolstoy. ~ Abhijit Naskar

We are apt to imagine that this hubbub of Philosophy, Literature, and Religion, which is heard in pulpits, lyceums, and parlors, vibrates through the universe, and is as catholic a sound as the creaking of the earth's axle. But if a man sleeps soundly, he will forget it all between sunset and dawn. ~ Henry David Thoreau

One does not become a poet by uttering beautiful words. One becomes a poet by pouring their soul as wine into the Cup of Love. ~ Subhan Zein

A Christian philosophy of literature begins with the same agenda of issues that any philosophy of literature addresses. Its distinctive feature is that it relates these issues to the Christian faith. ~ Leland Ryken

Philosophy appears to concern itself only with the truth, but perhaps expresses only fantasies, while literature appears to concern itself only with fantasies, but perhaps it expresses the truth. ~ Antonio Tabucchi

When science, art, literature, and philosophy are simply the manifestation of personality they are on a level where glorious and dazzling achievements are possible, which can make a man's name live for thousands of years. ~ Denis Diderot

All learning is in the learner, not the teacher. ~ Plato

Oh but you wouldn't believe,
This book is the fruit of knowledge from Eden;
It was written once by Adam and Eve,
After it was forbidden ~ Stephan Attia

Dreams are a beautiful bride
that holds our hands to
enter a world more glorious
than this one. ~ Subhan Zein

If you cannot be a sun that illuminates the light, be a moon that never tires of reflecting the light. ~ Subhan Zein

Knowledge is justified belief. ~ Jerome Bruner

We all R failures that's why V need #CHILDREN to fulfill D needs of #Society,#Nation,#Worlds , so that we can live the same old selfish way ~ Tushar Upreti

No reception without reaction, no impression without correlative expression, -this is the great maxim which the teacher ought never to forget. ~ William James

One of my major preoccupations is the approximation between what I say and what I do, between what I seem to be and what I am actually becoming. ~ Paulo Freire

But when the wizard is onstage as the main character, you have to adopt what I call the Jack Vance Rule. I call it this because Jack Vance is the first author successfully and adroitly to have applied this rule in his The Dying Earth. The Jack Vance Rule is: (1) The wizard has to be able to do something unusual, or else he is not a wizard, (2) he cannot do everything, or else there is no drama; therefore (3) the story teller has to communicate to the reader whatever the dividing line is that separates what the wizard can do from what he cannot do, so that the reader can have a reasonable expectation of knowing what the wizard can and cannot do. ~ John C. Wright

Writing is no dying art form in America because most published writers here accept the wisdom and the necessity of encouraging the talent that follows in their footsteps. ~ Elizabeth George

I think it's a very old and deep-seated double standard that holds that when a man writes about family and feelings, it's literature with a capital L, but when a woman considers the same topics, it's romance, or a beach book - in short, it's something unworthy of a serious critic's attention. ~ Jennifer Weiner

- You shouldn't flaunt your cross. I think religion it's a deeply personal thing.
- Do you think boobs and ass are not personal things? People consider ordinary displaying them. ~ Bryanna Reid

The only reason I would write a sequel is if I were struck by an idea that I felt to be equal to the original. Too many sequels diminish the original. ~ Dean Koontz

The amusements of life, he argued, should be accepted with the same philosophy as its ills. ("The Striding Place") ~ Gertrude Atherton

If you can't make a change follow the changes. ~ Kamaran Ihsan Salih

I don't read for amusement, I read for enlightenment. I do a lot of reviewing, so I have a steady assignment of reading. I'm also a judge for the Anisfield-Wolf Book Awards, which gives awards to literature and nonfiction. ~ Joyce Carol Oates

I hope it does not take the rest of my life until I find what it is I've been looking for. ~ Billy Joel

We become so focused on the individual events and circumstances of our lives, so eager to label them as "good" or "bad", when in fact, everything is just LIFE! Everything, all of it, it's all just LIFE. ~ C. JoyBell C.

Within the magic of the asking,
lives the magic to receive,
wonderfully exciting, endless possibilities! ~ Amma Sharon

Our thoughts and perceptions are our god.
Our true inner awareness is the purest temple,
where I worship every day for the divine. ~ Debasish Mridha

Why didst Thou reject that last gift? Had Thou accepted that last offer of the mighty spirit, Thou wouldst have accomplished all that man seeks on earth
that is, someone to worship, someone to keep his conscience, and some means of uniting all in one unanimous and harmonious ant heap, because the craving for universal unity is the third and last anguish of men. Mankind as a whole has always striven to organize a universal state. ~ Fyodor Dostoyevsky

The key to education is the experience of beauty. ~ Friedrich Schiller

When you change your story that you tell about yourself, you change your life. You can start telling a better story right now. ~ Sheri Kaye Hoff

Literature is an ethical leap. It is a moral decision. A perilous exercise in constant failure. Literature should have grievances, because there are so many grievances in the world. ~ Miguel Syjuco

Being the best possible role model for your child, is close to godliness ~ Thabiso Daniel Monkoe

I found the key to the universe in the engine of an old parked car. ~ Bruce Springsteen

It is a bitter thought, how different a thing the Christianity of the world might have been, if the Christian faith had been adopted as the religion of the empire under the auspices of Marcus Aurelius instead of those of Constantine. ~ John Stuart Mill

For the miserable find comfort in the philosophy that not on them alone has evil fallen. ~ Procopius

Evil is boring. Cynicism is pointless. Fear is a bad habit. Despair is lazy. Hopelessness is self-indulgent. On the other hand: Joy is fascinating. Love is an act of heroic genius. Pleasure is our birthright. Chronic ecstasy is a learnable skill. ~ Rob Brezsny

Most people live lives that are full of mysteries, lives whose ultimate purpose we may never really understand. But for the sake of serenity, we must believe in life's nobleness. ~ Janvier Chouteu-Chando

You have to live with yourself rest of your life, so like yourself and love yourself, do only those things that will help the humanity and you could be proud of. ~ Debasish Mridha

Love! In the midst of darkness, you're my guiding light. ~ Debasish Mridha

Make your life an inspiring story meant to be read in bed during a sleepless night of despair. ~ Debasish Mridha

There is no Success or Failure in "LOVE", by itself is a Victory !! ~ Mahesh Shekhar

We have won the time lottery of the last 4 billion years. ~ Stefan Molyneux

A nationalist will blindly follow his country to his death out of love for it. A patriot will stand up for and even against his country to his death out of love for it. ~ Janvier Chouteu-Chando

Isolation brings out the best in me. ~ Anthony T. Hincks

It's been a thousand years since I became a poem I have been in your hear all along this journey. ~ Avijeet Das

Literature is what you write when you think you should be saying something. Writing begins when you'd rather be doing anything else: and you've just done it. ~ Kenneth Patchen

As they walked, it seemed almost every building had some similar contrivance as decoration, adorning the street in a cacophony of clangs, bangs and whirs. The street's surroundings danced with steam and smoke, the scent of oil and grease its perfume. ~ A.F. Stewart

Tantra involves radical change, a change in states of awareness. ~ Frederick Lenz

Love heals the soul and cures the mind. ~ Debasish Mridha

Love what you do! ~ Lailah Gifty Akita

He did recall that the summer after graduating from college before he joined the state police he had read Shakespeare. It was the pure language that stupefied him. He would be in a diner reading A Midsummer Night's Dream and his acquaintances were confident he was studying for some test. The test turned out to be the nature of his mind. Shakespeare seemed even truer than history. Literature was against the abyss while history wallowed in it. ~ Jim Harrison

I don't like books which give me the answers. I love books that give me the questions ~ Suzy Davies

Every call and every question has an answer and that is your love. ~ Debasish Mridha

The American Revolution was, in fact, a battle against the philosophy of Locke and the English utilitarians. ~ Robert Trout

In our day the conventional element in literature is elaborately disguised by a law of copyright pretending that every work of art is an invention distinctive enough to be patented. ~ Northrop Frye

Depend upon it, after all, Thomas, Literature is the most noble of professions. In fact, it is about the only one fit for a man. For my own part, there is no seducing me from the path. ~ Edgar Allan Poe

Our Fly Smart philosophy is about investing only on those points of differentiation that pay for themselves, that earn a revenue premium commensurate with what it costs us to provide that product or service. ~ Gerard Arpey

I do not mean to object to a thorough knowledge of the famous works we read. I object only to the interminable comments and bewildering criticisms that teach but one thing: there are as many opinions as there are men. ~ Helen Keller

Every adult life could be said to be defined by two great love stories. The first - the story of our quest for sexual love - is well known and well charted, its vagaries form the staple of music and literature, it is socially accepted and celebrated. The second - the story of our quest for love from the world - is a more secret and shameful tale. If mentioned, it tends to be in caustic, mocking terms, as something of interest chiefly to envious or deficient souls, or else the drive for status is interpreted in an economic sense alone. And yet this second love story is no less intense than the first, it is no less complicated, important or universal, and its setbacks are no less painful. There is heartbreak here too. ~ Alain De Botton