Top 100 Philosophy Literature Quotes
#1. 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
#2. 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
#3. 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
#4. 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.
#5. Serious affairs and history are carefully laid snares for the uninformed.
Dejan Stojanovic
#6. Philosophy says truth, literature shows truth.
Peter Kreeft
#7. Only philosophy can go deep enough to show that literature goes still deeper than philosophy
Michel Serres
#8. There are countless circles of hell; believers never penetrate the ninth circle.
Dejan Stojanovic
#9. 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
#11. We measure everything by ourselves with almost a necessary conceit.
Dejan Stojanovic
#12. 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
#14. There is a moonlight note in the Moonlight Sonata; there is a thunder note in an angry sky.
Dejan Stojanovic
#15. He would write it for the reason he felt that all great literature, fiction and nonfiction, was written: truth comes out, in the end it always comes out. He would write it because he felt he had to.
Stephen King
#16. If you have a big heart, you will live a large life.
Yvonne Jayne
#17. It is astonishing how many mental operations we can explain when we have once grasped the principles of association
William James
#18. Literature is not conceivable without philosophy or the other way round
Thomas Bernhard
#19. 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
#20. Existence is the end of endless eternity without a beginning or an end.
Dejan Stojanovic
#22. Faith is a question of eyesight; even the blind can see that.
Dejan Stojanovic
#23. When the long bygone Lee Po wanted to say something, he could do it with only a few words.
Dejan Stojanovic
#24. 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
#25. A poet or philosopher should have no fault to find with his age if it only permits him to do his work undisturbed in his own corner; nor with his fate if the corner granted him allows of his following his vocation without having to think about other people.
Arthur Schopenhauer
#30. Three-fourths of philosophy and literature is the talk of people trying to convince themselves that they really like the cage they were tricked into entering.
Gary Snyder
#32. If you cannot be a sun that illuminates the light, be a moon that never tires of reflecting the light.
Subhan Zein
#33. Although all days are equally long regardless of the season, some days are long not only seasonally but by rewards they offer.
Dejan Stojanovic
#34. 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
#35. We like to admit to only that which already glows, although it is nobler to support brightness before it glows, not afterwards.
Dejan Stojanovic
#36. Lastly, literature and philosophy both allow past idols to be resurrected with a frequency which would be truly distressing to a sober scientist.
Morris Raphael Cohen
#38. 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
#40. Is it possible to write a poem or are these words just screams of outlaws exiled to the desert?
Dejan Stojanovic
#42. Nothing is inanimate; what is the rest is our interpretation.
Dejan Stojanovic
#43. Let those who want to save the world if you can get to see it clear and as a whole. Then any part you make will represent the whole if it's made truly. The thing to do is work and learn to make it.
Ernest Hemingway,
#44. I didn't know that Mahler would come to play so large a role, nor that music and literature and philosophy can interinanimate one another in the way I've come to think they do in this case.
Philip Kitcher
#45. A smiling lie is a whirlwind, easy to enter, but hard to escape.
Dejan Stojanovic
#48. Snow floated down every once in a while, but it was frail snow, like a memory fading into the distance.
Haruki Murakami
#49. A big desire is not enough to meet the expectations of lost dreams.
Dejan Stojanovic
#50. 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
#51. Experience, derived from scientific investigation, led to all the scientific literature in history. Likewise, experience, derived from religious transcendence, led to all the religious scriptures in history. It's never the other way around.
Abhijit Naskar
#52. It's very fluid, this space between philosophy and literature, and that's something that resonates for me.
Tom McCarthy
#54. 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
#55. No literature is sound, no philosophy of action workable, if it doesn't take a hard look at itself.
John W. Campbell
#56. If philosophy is mountain climbing
then literature is an anti-gravity parade
I love thee like a leper colony
loves to make a trade
Carl-John X. Veraja
#57. If we were to understand how important it is to say something and say it well, maybe we wouldn't write a single word, but that would be tragic.
Dejan Stojanovic
#59. 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
#62. 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
#64. In philosophy, the principles are more interesting than the examples. In literature, the examples are more interesting than the principles.
Mason Cooley
#65. Beyond all vanities, fights, and desires, omnipotent silence lies.
Dejan Stojanovic
#68. 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
#69. This dwarf still observes the world from his own self-imposed height.
Dejan Stojanovic
#70. If you want to consume the cream of Christ's philosophy, then don't read the Bible, read Tolstoy.
Abhijit Naskar
#71. Knighthood lies above eternity; it doesn't live off fame, but rather deeds.
Dejan Stojanovic
#72. What they call philosophy I call literature; what they call literature I call journalism; what they call journalism I call gossip; and what they call gossip I call (generously) voyeurism.
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
#77. Sun is a hearthstone, a merry-go-round of extinguished hearthstones.
Dejan Stojanovic
#78. 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
#79. 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
#80. Arrival in the world is really a departure and that, which we call departure, is only a return.
Dejan Stojanovic
#81. You not only are hunted by others, you unknowingly hunt yourself.
Dejan Stojanovic
#82. Woe be to him who tries to isolate one department of knowledge from the rest. All science is one: language, literature and history, physics, mathematics and philosophy; subjects which seem the most remote from one another are in reality connected, or rather they all form a single system.
Jules Michelet
#83. Unborn eternity does not die; existence is dying and falls asleep in the eternity beyond existence.
Dejan Stojanovic
#84. But the thing about Literature is, well, basically it encapsulates all the disciplines - it's history, philosophy, politics, sexual politics, sociology, psychology, linguistics, science. Literature is mankind's organised response to the world around him, or her.
David Nicholls
#85. I don't see why escapist literature shouldn't also be a work of art.
P.D. James
#86. The same word we love and hate, leaves in different directions, taking different paths.
Dejan Stojanovic
#87. 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
#89. Different languages, the same thoughts; servant to thoughts and their masters.
Dejan Stojanovic
#90. Mother used to say that however miserable one is, there's always something to be thankful for. And each morning, when the sky brightened and light began to flood my cell, I agreed with her.
Albert Camus
#91. My grandma, Mrs Grace Ayorkor Acquah said 'Educating the child is everybody's business.
Lailah Gifty Akita
#92. How alive is thought, invisible, yet without thought there is no sight.
Dejan Stojanovic
#94. 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
#95. 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
#96. 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
#100. Education is not a discipline at all. Half vocational, half emptiness dressed up in garments borrowed from philosophy, psychology, literature.
Edward Blishen
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