Philosopher Quotes

But however measurable, there is much more life in music than mathematics or logic ever dreamed of.
Contemplation and wisdom are highest achievements and man is not totally at home with them.
Contemporary thinkers would say that man is continuously transcending himself.
It is right that we be concerned with the scientific probity of metaphysics.
Metaphysics is a science.
Music at times is more like perfume than mathematics.
On a grassroots level we say that man can touch more than he can grasp.
The dynamic element in my philosophy, taken as a whole, can be seen as an obstinate and untiring battle against the spirit of abstraction.
The striking thing about the Precious Blood is the bond it establishes between love and suffering in our experience, a bond that has become so close that we have come to think of suffering accepted with joy as the most authentic sign of love with any depth at all.
The wise man knows how to run his life so that contemplation is Possible.
A special kind of beauty exists which is born in language, of language, and for language.
Even a minor event in the life of a child is an event of that child's world and thus a world event.
Ideas are refined and multiplied in the commerce of minds. In their splendor, images effect a very simple communion of souls.
If I were asked to name the chief benefit of the house, I should say: the house shelters day-dreaming, the house protects the dreamer, the house allows one to dream in peace.
Literary imagination is an aesthetic object offered by a writer to a lover of books.
Man is a creation of desire, not a creation of need.
Man is an imagining being.
One must always maintain one's connection to the past and yet ceaselessly pull away from it.
Poetry is one of the destinies of speech... One would say that the poetic image, in its newness, opens a future to language.
Reverie is not a mind vacuum. It is rather the gift of an hour which knows the plenitude of the soul.
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