Philosophy & Thought: Deep Quotes

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"We are symbols, and inhabit symbols"

Ralph Waldo Emerson, Philosopher

Ralph Waldo Emerson

"A chief event of life is the day in which we have encountered a mind that startled us"

Ralph Waldo Emerson, Philosopher

Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Deeply earnest and thoughtful people stand on shaky footing with the public"

Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe, Writer

Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

"Russia is a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma"

Winston Churchill, Statesman

Winston Churchill

"The ultimate tendency of civilization is towards barbarism"

David Hare, Playwright

David Hare

"Bob Marley isn't my name. I don't even know my name yet"

Bob Marley, Musician

Bob Marley

"In the landscape of extinction, precision is next to godliness"

Samuel Beckett, Playwright

Samuel Beckett

"A society made up of individuals who were all capable of original thought would probably be unendurable"

H. L. Mencken, Writer

H. L. Mencken

"But if nothing but soul, or in soul mind, is qualified to count, it is impossible for there to be time unless there is soul, but only that of which time is an attribute, i.e. if change can exist without soul"

Aristotle, Philosopher

Aristotle

"Strange to say, the luminous world is the invisible world; the luminous world is that which we do not see. Our eyes of flesh see only night"

Victor Hugo, Author

Victor Hugo

"No one knows like a woman how to say things which are at once gentle and deep"

Victor Hugo, Author

Victor Hugo

"Genius: the superhuman in man"

Victor Hugo, Author

Victor Hugo

"Genius is a promontory jutting out into the infinite"

Victor Hugo, Author

Victor Hugo

"To think of shadows is a serious thing"

Victor Hugo, Author

Victor Hugo

"There is a sacred horror about everything grand. It is easy to admire mediocrity and hills; but whatever is too lofty, a genius as well as a mountain, an assembly as well as a masterpiece, seen too near, is appalling"

Victor Hugo, Author

Victor Hugo

"The ideal and the beautiful are identical; the ideal corresponds to the idea, and beauty to form; hence idea and substance are cognate"

Victor Hugo, Author

Victor Hugo

"Excessive sorrow laughs. Excessive joy weeps"

William Blake, Poet

William Blake

"There is no faculty of the human soul so persistent and universal as that of hatred"

Henry Ward Beecher, Clergyman

"I have found that hollow, which even I had relied on for solid"

Henry David Thoreau, Author

Henry David Thoreau

"Generally speaking, a howling wilderness does not howl: it is the imagination of the traveler that does the howling"

Henry David Thoreau, Author

Henry David Thoreau

"A wonderful fact to reflect upon, that every human creature is constituted to be that profound secret and mystery to every other"

Charles Dickens, Novelist

Charles Dickens

"The society based on production is only productive, not creative"

Albert Camus, Philosopher

Albert Camus

"Beauty is unbearable, drives us to despair, offering us for a minute the glimpse of an eternity that we should like to stretch out over the whole of time"

Albert Camus, Philosopher

Albert Camus

"As a remedy to life in society, I would suggest the big city. Nowadays, it is the only desert within our means"

Albert Camus, Philosopher

Albert Camus

"Those who weep for the happy periods which they encounter in history acknowledge what they want; not the alleviation but the silencing of misery"

Albert Camus, Philosopher

Albert Camus

"Every act of rebellion expresses a nostalgia for innocence and an appeal to the essence of being"

Albert Camus, Philosopher

Albert Camus

"Maybe this world is another planet's hell"

Aldous Huxley, Novelist

Aldous Huxley

"Not everything has a name. Some things lead us into a realm beyond words"

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, Author

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

"Hastiness and superficiality are the psychic diseases of the twentieth century, and more than anywhere else this disease is reflected in the press"

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, Author

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

"Hastiness and superficiality are the psychic diseases of the 20th century, and more than anywhere else this disease is reflected in the press"

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, Author

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

"Necessity is the most powerful divinity the world knows - it is the result of physical forces set in operation by ethical forces"

Jose Rizal, Writer

Jose Rizal

"To live is to be among men, and to be among men is to struggle, a struggle not only with them but with oneself; with their passions, but also with one's own"

Jose Rizal, Writer

Jose Rizal

"Though I love my country, I do not love my countrymen"

Lord Byron, Poet

Lord Byron

"The existentialist says at once that man is anguish"

Jean-Paul Sartre, Philosopher

Jean-Paul Sartre

"Existence precedes and rules essence"

Jean-Paul Sartre, Philosopher

Jean-Paul Sartre

"Who can exhaust a man? Who knows a man's resources?"

Jean-Paul Sartre, Philosopher

Jean-Paul Sartre

"My thought is me: that is why I cannot stop thinking. I exist because I think; I cannot keep from thinking"

Jean-Paul Sartre, Philosopher

Jean-Paul Sartre

"Men's ideas are the most direct emanations of their material state"

Karl Marx, Philosopher

Karl Marx

"Greek philosophy seems to have met with something with which a good tragedy is not supposed to meet, namely, a dull ending"

Karl Marx, Philosopher

Karl Marx

"A commodity appears at first sight, an extremely obvious, trivial thing. But its analysis brings out that it is a very strange thing, abounding in metaphysical subtleties and theological niceties"

Karl Marx, Philosopher

Karl Marx

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