Philosopher Quotes

A man of courage flees forward, in the midst of new things.
A single idea, if it is right, saves us the labor of an infinity of experiences.
Americans seem sometimes to believe that if you are a thinker you must be a frowning bore, because thinking is so damn serious.
Christianity taught men that love is worth more than intelligence.
Gratitude is the most exquisite form of courtesy.
I don't see America as a mainland, but as a sea, a big ocean. Sometimes a storm arises, a formidable current develops, and it seems it will engulf everything. Wait a moment, another current will appear and bring the first one to naught.
Poetry proceeds from the totality of man, sense, imagination, intellect, love, desire, instinct, blood and spirit together.
The great and admirable strength of America consists in this, that America is truly the American people.
The poet knows himself only on the condition that things resound in him, and that in him, at a single awakening, they and he come forth together out of sleep.
We don't love qualities; we love a person; sometimes by reason of their defects as well as their qualities.
A whole army, though they can neither write nor read, are not afraid of a platform, which they know is but earth or stone; nor of a cannon, which, without a hand to give fire to it, is but cold iron; therefore a whole army is afraid of one man.
No man can be a politician, except he be first a historian or a traveller; for except he can see what must be, or what may be, he is no politician.
The Law is but words and paper without the hands of swords of men.
Vice: Whatever was passion in the contemplation of man, being brought forth by his will into action.
Heredity provides for the modification of its own machinery.
All that is noble in the world's past history, and especially the minds of the great and the good, are never lost.
Every man's highest, nameless though it be, is his 'living God'.
Grief is only the memory of widowed affections.
Religion is no more possible without prayer than poetry without language, or music without atmosphere.
Religion is the belief in an ever-living God, that is, in a Divine Mind and Will ruling the Universe and holding moral relations with mankind.
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