Philosophy Quotes

"This grand show is eternal. It is always sunrise somewhere; the dew is never all dried at once; a shower is forever falling; vapor is ever rising. Eternal sunrise, eternal sunset, eternal dawn and gloaming, on sea and continents and islands, each in its turn, as the round earth rolls."

- John Muir

"Cats are intended to teach us that not everything in nature has a purpose."

- Garrison Keillor

"A tree is known by its fruit."

- Matthew 12:33

"All things, and man as well, should be like nature, without measure."

- Hans Jean Arp

"A miracle constantly repeated becomes a process of nature."

- Lyman Abbott

"There is not a particle of life which does not bear poetry within it."

- Gustave Flaubert

"Nature never hurries. Atom by atom, little by little, she achieves her work."

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Make no mistake about why these babies are here — they are here to replace us."

- Jerry Seinfeld

"I learned what is obvious to a child. That life is simply a collection of little lives, each lived one day at a time."

- Nicholas Sparks

"Having is not so pleasing a thing after all as wanting. It is not logical, but it is often true."

- Spock

"Logic Clearly Dictates That The Needs Of The Many Outweigh The Needs Of The Few."

- Spock

"One man cannot summon the future."

- Spock

"There can be no justice so long as laws are absolute. Even life itself is an exercise in exceptions."

- Jean-Luc Picard

"It can be argued that a human is ultimately the sum of his experiences."

- Benjamin Sisko

"You may find that having is not so pleasing a thing as wanting. This is not logical, but it is often true."

- Spock

"Virtue is a relative term."

- Spock

"Religious wars are not caused by the fact that there is more than one religion, but by the spirit of intolerance... the spread of which can only be regarded as the total eclipse of human reason."

- Montesquieu

"Death was not the opposite of life. It was already here, within my being, it had always been here, and no struggle would permit me to forget that... I lived through the following spring...with that kind knot of air in my chest, but I struggled all the while against becoming serious."

- Haruki Murakami

""Things take the time they take." - Mary Oliver "So it goes" - Kurt Vonnegut"

- LethalBacon

"Water has memory."

- Olaf

"Nature is what we know/ —Yet have no art to say— / So impotent Our Wisdom is /To her Simplicity."

- Emily Dickinson

"We first share the life by which things exist, and afterwards see them as appearances in nature, and forget that we have shared their cause."

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"An organic being is a microcosm — a little universe, formed of a host of self-propagating organisms, inconceivably minute and numerous as the stars of heaven."

- Charles Darwin

"Let us draw a lesson from nature, which always works by short ways. When the fruit is ripe, it falls."

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"This our life, exempt from public haunt, finds tongues in trees, books in the running brooks, sermons in stones, and good in everything."

- William Shakespeare

"A tree growing out of the ground is as wonderful today as it ever was. It does not need to adopt new and startling methods."

- Robert Henri

"The poets are only the interpreters of the gods."

- Socrates

"Wars throughout history have been waged for conquest and plunder. In the aftermath of war, the victors would write history to glorify their deeds and justify the wars. But war is never justified."

- Marcus Garvey

"War is the health of the State. Only when the State is at war does the modern society function with that unity of sentiment, simple uncritical patriotic devotion, cooperation of services, which have always been the ideal of the State lover."

- Randolph Bourne

"Fate... protects fools, little children and ships named Enterprise."