Top 100 Literature Philosophy Quotes
#1. Sexually progressive cultures gave us literature, philosophy, civilization and the rest, while sexually restrictive cultures gave us the Dark Ages and the Holocaust.
Alan Moore
#2. We honor the Greeks because in their art, literature, philosophy and civic history we discern the early stirrings of our own ideals - rationalism, humanism, democracy - which first took firm root in Athenian soil.
Caroline Alexander
#3. Giants of literature, philosophy, and the arts have influenced my life, but what have I done with this life? I remain a speck in a tumultuous universe that has little concern for me. I am no more than dust, a mote - dust to dust. I am a blade of grass upon which the stormtrooper's boot stomps.
Rabih Alameddine
#4. Serious affairs and history are carefully laid snares for the uninformed.
Dejan Stojanovic
#5. Philosophy says truth, literature shows truth.
Peter Kreeft
#6. There will still be things that machines cannot do. They will not produce great art or great literature or great philosophy; they will not be able to discover the secret springs of happiness in the human heart; they will know nothing of love and friendship.
Bertrand Russell
#8. There is a moonlight note in the Moonlight Sonata; there is a thunder note in an angry sky.
Dejan Stojanovic
#9. It is astonishing how many mental operations we can explain when we have once grasped the principles of association
William James
#10. I think therefore I am. Does that mean 'I feel therefore I'm not'? But only through feeling can I get at thinking.
Jeanette Winterson
#12. When the long bygone Lee Po wanted to say something, he could do it with only a few words.
Dejan Stojanovic
#13. I will never see the day where I choose to fall upon my own sword of refuge. In knowing this, I also know that you will never ultimately defeat me; for my life is my own, and I will see to it accordingly.
Danish Sayanee
#17. Although all days are equally long regardless of the season, some days are long not only seasonally but by rewards they offer.
Dejan Stojanovic
#18. Our desire to say more grows bigger and what to say about it, except that saying is not always about saying, growing is not always about growing.
Dejan Stojanovic
#20. An aphorism is a synthesis of poetry and prose, it is a narrative precipitate, a didactic parable, an ideological concept, in practice it 's compressed and zipped philosophy . It is literature that adapts itself to the digital age.
William C. Brown
#22. Is it possible to write a poem or are these words just screams of outlaws exiled to the desert?
Dejan Stojanovic
#23. Nothing is inanimate; what is the rest is our interpretation.
Dejan Stojanovic
#24. During half a century of literary work, I have endeavoured to introduce the philosophy of evolution into the sphere of literature, and to inspire my readers to think in evolutionary terms.
Johannes Vilhelm Jensen
#26. 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
#27. No literature is sound, no philosophy of action workable, if it doesn't take a hard look at itself.
John W. Campbell
#28. 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
#31. 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
#32. In philosophy, the principles are more interesting than the examples. In literature, the examples are more interesting than the principles.
Mason Cooley
#33. Beyond all vanities, fights, and desires, omnipotent silence lies.
Dejan Stojanovic
#35. 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
#37. Sun is a hearthstone, a merry-go-round of extinguished hearthstones.
Dejan Stojanovic
#38. The literature of the immediate future will inevitably turn away from painting, whether respectably realistic or modern, and from daily life, whether old or the very latest and revolutionary, and turn to artistically realized philosophy.
Yevgeny Zamyatin
#39. 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
#40. Arrival in the world is really a departure and that, which we call departure, is only a return.
Dejan Stojanovic
#41. Unborn eternity does not die; existence is dying and falls asleep in the eternity beyond existence.
Dejan Stojanovic
#42. 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
#43. My grandma, Mrs Grace Ayorkor Acquah said 'Educating the child is everybody's business.
Lailah Gifty Akita
#44. In thus pointing out certain respects in which philosophy resembles literature more than science, I do not mean, of course, to imply that it would be well for philosophy if it ceased to aim at scientific rigor.
Morris Raphael Cohen
#45. 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
#46. In Algeria, I had begun to get into literature and philosophy. I dreamed of writing-and already models were instructing the dream, a certain language governed it.
Jacques Derrida
#47. Jokes of the proper kind, properly told, can do more to enlighten questions of politics, philosophy, and literature than any number of dull arguments.
Isaac Asimov
#49. Now that we are all so smart, we don't easily find resolutions.
Dejan Stojanovic
#50. We have the power to shape our lives, by the way we think. Only that to have a progressive life, we must train ourselves into thinking in a certain way.
Ndiritu Wahome
#51. 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
#52. But ignorance of divine revelation affects all of thought and life, from one's view toward history and philosophy, to one's interpretation of music and literature, to one's understanding of mathematics and physics.
Vincent Cheung
#53. 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
#55. He did not profess to anybody how to reach others without professing.
Dejan Stojanovic
#56. In this,
journey,
of reaching,
to myself,
I have had,
many a,
thoroughfares,
goodbye affairs,
reality checks,
and,
lovely overwhelms.
Jasleen Kaur Gumber
#57. A breeze, a forgotten summer, a smile, all can fit into a storefront window.
Dejan Stojanovic
#59. They didn't teach Nietzsche in the philosophy department at Harvard; philosophy there was strictly analytical stuff and the poetic ramblings of Nietzsche did not belong. And see - you are teaching it in a literature class - so they must have been right.
Dean Wareham
#60. I arrived from Harvard, where I had studied philosophy and the history of ideas, with a bias toward literature and formal thought.
Robert Darnton
#61. We hear only our own voices, still echoes returning to our emptiness.
Dejan Stojanovic
#63. Creators of history always play with our impotence and our ignorance.
Dejan Stojanovic
#64. People who want to change everything in the world but never think of changing themselves are clapping with one palm.
Subhan Zein
#67. From whichever side I start, I think I am in an old place where others have been before me.
Dejan Stojanovic
#68. If what we think of ourselves were true, the planet would overflow with geniuses.
Dejan Stojanovic
#69. Like speaks to like only; labor to labor, philosophy to philosophy, criticism to criticism, poetry to poetry. Literature speaks how much still to the past, how little to the future, how much to the East, how little to the West.
Henry David Thoreau
#70. It is easy to see the glow but hard to recognize the awakening of silence.
Dejan Stojanovic
#71. My world is about stories that entertain; emotions that move; people you'll remember; literature that matters.
M.G. Crisci
#72. Let philosophy resolutely aim to be as scientific as possible, but let her not forget her strong kinship with literature.
Morris Raphael Cohen
#73. 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
#74. The proverbial philosophy of a people helps us to understand more about them than any other kind of literature.
Lafcadio Hearn
#76. Comedy aims at representing men as worse, Tragedy as better than in actual life.
Aristotle.
#77. I sort of mind living in a time when most of the literature is terribly personal. I suppose it's because I grew up on a love of history, philosophy, science and religion, but not to think too much about yourself.
A.S. Byatt
#78. Fantasy is escapist, and that is its glory. If a soldier is imprisioned by the enemy, don't we consider it his duty to escape? ... If we value the freedom of mind and soul, if we're partisans of liberty, then it's our plain duty to escape, and to take as many people with us as we can!
J.R.R. Tolkien
#79. It is difficult when reading the description of certain fictional characters not at the same time to imagine the real-life acquaintances who they most closely, if often unexpectedly, resemble.
Alain De Botton
#81. The balance between literature and philosophy in Schopenhauer and Nietzsche is different from that struck in the novella, but, as Mann clearly pointed out in his writings about both thinkers, both modes are present.
Philip Kitcher
#82. Habit is second nature, or rather ... ten times nature.
William James
#83. Not only dowomen sufferindignities in daily life, but the literature of the world proclaims their inferiority and divinely decreed subjection in all history, sacred and profane, in science, philosophy, poetry, and song.
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
#86. The most effective way of destroying art is the canonization of one given form. And one philosophy.
Yevgeny Zamyatin
#87. Economics is a study of cause-and-effect relationships in an economy. It's purpose is to discern the consequences of various ways of allocating resources which have alternative uses. It has nothing to say about philosophy or values, anymore than it has to say about music or literature.
Thomas Sowell
#89. He confided his deepest secret to you; be always wary of his secret.
Dejan Stojanovic
#90. Too often, feelings arrive too soon, waiting for thoughts that often come too late.
Dejan Stojanovic
#91. How many unuttered words died in the heads of those for whom a word was too expensive.
Dejan Stojanovic
#93. Whatever others may say, they say it to deceive and comfort themselves, not help you.
Dejan Stojanovic
#94. What are we doing to each other? Because I know that I am doing to him exactly what he is doing to me. We are sometimes so happy, and never in our lives have we known more unhappiness.
Graham Greene
#95. After Homer and Dante, is a whole century of creating worth one Shakespeare?
Dejan Stojanovic
#96. The best kind of writing is that which comes from the authors soul.
Ndiritu Wahome
#97. The light teaches you to convert life into a festive promenade.
Dejan Stojanovic
#98. The great writings interact with one another. They cannot be read in isolation..
Richard J. Foster
#99. The message of guidance that neither politics nor philosophy nor religion now seems able to provide, we look for in modern literature.
Irving Howe
#100. Don't look up to people, don't be someone's following.
Now a days everything you see is just a lie,
Instead be the person you want to follow.
Akash Lakhotia
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