Philosophy Quotes

"The Sun is not God, though His noblest image."

- Robert Dodsley

"One Sun warms and enlightens the world; two suns would destroy it."

- Shahab al-Din Yahya ibn Habash Suhrawardi

"That the Sun will not rise tomorrow is no less intelligible a proposition and implies no more contradiction than the affirmation that it will rise."

- David Hume

"The face of the Sun is not without expression, but it tells us precious little of what is in its heart."

- Armin J. Deutsch

"If I had to have a religion, I should adore the Sun, for it is the Sun that fertilizes everything."

- Napoleon Bonaparte

"Modern science says: 'The sun is the past, the earth is the present, the moon is the future.' From an incandescent mass we have originated, and into a frozen mass we shall turn. Merciless is the law of nature, and rapidly and irresistibly we are drawn to our doom."

- Nikola Tesla

"Loss and possession, death and life are one, There falls no shadow where there shines no sun."

- Hilaire Belloc

"With just one polka dot, nothing can be achieved. In the universe, there is the sun, the moon, the earth, and hundreds of millions of stars. All of us live in the unfathomable mystery and infinitude of the universe. Pursuing 'philosophy of the universe' through art under such circumstances has led me to what I call 'stereotypical repetition.'"

- Yayoi Kusama

"Every man casts a shadow; not his body only, but his imperfectly mingled spirit. This is his grief. Let him turn which way he will, it falls opposite to the sun; short at noon, long at eve. Did you never see it?"

- Henry David Thoreau

"He was like a cock who thought the sun had risen to hear him crow."

- George Eliot

"Atheism is so senseless. When I look at the solar system, I see the earth at the right distance from the sun to receive the proper amounts of heat and light. This did not happen by chance."

- Isaac Newton

"When the moon covers the sun, we have a solar eclipse. What do you call it when birds do that?"

- Kim Young-ha

"Stand a little less between me and the sun."

- Diogenes

"The sun don't shine on the same dog's ass all the time."

- Catfish Hunter

"The stars shall fade away, the sun himself Grow dim with age, and nature sink in years, But thou shalt flourish in immortal youth, Unhurt amidst the wars of elements, The wrecks of matter, and the crush of worlds."

- Joseph Addison

"We think we can make honey without sharing in the fate of bees, but we are in truth nothing but poor bees, destined to accomplish our task and then die."

- Muriel Barbery

"Man produces evil as a bee produces honey."

- William Golding

"If it were worth while to argue a paradox, one might maintain that nature regards the female as the essential, the male as the superfluity of her world. Perhaps the best starting-point for study of the Virgin would be a practical acquaintance with bees, and especially with queen bees."

- Henry Adams

"The goal of life is to make your heartbeat match the beat of the universe, to match your nature with Nature."

- Joseph Campbell

"The world is not to be put in order. The world is order. It is for us to put ourselves in unison with this order."

- Henry Miller

"Nature is an infinite sphere of which the center is everywhere and the circumference nowhere."

- Blaise Pascal

"Everything in nature is lyrical in its ideal essence, tragic in its fate, and comic in its existence."

- George Santanaya

"The dance is the mother of the arts. Music and poetry exist in time; painting and architecture in space. But the dance lives at once in time and space."

- Curt Sachs

"No artist is ahead of his time. He is time; the others are just behind the times."

- Martha Graham

"Dancing is an art because it is subject to rules."

- Francois-Marie Arouet Voltaire

"O body swayed to music, O brightening glance, How can we know the dancer from the dance?"

- William Butler Yeats

"There are likewise three kinds of dancers: first, those who consider dancing as a sort of gymnastic drill, made up of impersonal and graceful arabesques; second, those who, by concentrating their minds, lead the body into the rhythm of a desired emotion, expressing a remembered feeling or experience. And finally, there are those who convert the body into a luminous fluidity, surrendering it to the inspiration of the soul."

- Isadora Duncan

"If I could tell you what it meant, there would be no point in dancing it."

- Isadora Duncan

"Dance is the loftiest, most moving, most beautiful of the arts, because it is not a mere translation or abstraction of life; it is life itself!"

- Martha Graham

"Dance, in its broadest sense, is a physical acknowledgment of the rhythm of the universe and of our own lives."

- Carol Roan