philosophy Quotes

There is always a present and extant life, be it better or worse, which all combine to uphold.

There is no just and serene criticism as yet.

It is not part of a true culture to tame tigers, any more than it is to make sheep ferocious.

How can any man be weak who dares to be at all?

I wanted to live deep and suck out all the marrow of life, to live so sturdily and Spartanlike as to put to rout all that was not life.

Justice is sweet and musical; but injustice is harsh and discordant.

Nothing makes the earth seem so spacious as to have friends at a distance; they make the latitudes and longitudes.

Nature is full of genius, full of the divinity; so that not a snowflake escapes its fashioning hand.

I have seen how the foundations of the world are laid, and I have not the least doubt that it will stand a good while.

As if you could kill time without injuring eternity.