Quotes by Philosophers

Contemplation and wisdom are highest achievements and man is not totally at home with them. Gabriel Marcel

Wisdom Home Man Totally Highest Contemplation Achievements Them

Even a minor event in the life of a child is an event of that child's world and thus a world event. Gaston Bachelard

Life World Minor Thus Child Even Event

There is no original truth, only original error. Gaston Bachelard

Truth Only Error Original

Reverie is not a mind vacuum. It is rather the gift of an hour which knows the plenitude of the soul. Gaston Bachelard

Soul Gift Mind Rather Hour Knows Reverie Which Vacuum

Man is an imagining being. Gaston Bachelard

Man Being Imagining

Literary imagination is an aesthetic object offered by a writer to a lover of books. Gaston Bachelard

Lover Imagination Books Object Writer Aesthetic Offered Literary

Two half philosophers will probably never a whole metaphysician make. Gaston Bachelard

Will Half Philosophers Never Make Whole Two

The great function of poetry is to give back to us the situations of our dreams. Gaston Bachelard

Dreams Great Back Our Our Dreams Give Poetry Situations Us Function

If one is satisfied with things, one doesn't complain about the downsides that exist, either. Georg Henrik von Wright

Satisfied Complain About Exist Either Things

All moral laws are merely statements that certain kinds of actions will have good effects. George Edward Moore

Good Will Statements Moral Kinds Laws Merely Effects Certain Actions

In all sincere speech there is power, not necessarily great power, but as much as the speaker is capable of. George Henry Lewes

Great Power Great Power Sincere Capable Much Speaker Necessarily Speech

Science is the systematic classification of experience. George Henry Lewes

Science Experience Systematic Classification

The object of Literature is to instruct, to animate, or to amuse. George Henry Lewes

Object Animate Literature Amuse

Sincerity is moral truth. George Henry Lewes

Truth Moral Sincerity

We must never assume that which is incapable of proof. George Henry Lewes

Assume Must Proof Never Which Incapable

Murder, like talent, seems occasionally to run in families. George Henry Lewes

Run Seems Talent Like Occasionally Families

Good writers are of necessity rare. George Henry Lewes

Good Rare Writers Necessity