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Philosophy: Quotations from Cyclopedia of Practical Quotations

So Satan, whom repulse upon repulse Met ever, and to shameful silence brought, Yet gives not o'er, though desperate of success.— MILTON — Paradise Regained. Bk. IV. L. 21.

Hope against hope, and ask till ye receive.— MONTGOMERY — The World Before the Flood. Canto V.

We shall escape the uphill by never turning back.— CHRISTINA G. ROSSETTI — Amor Mundi.

Perseverance, dear my lord, Act I. Sc. 1. Keeps honour bright: to have done is to hang Quite out of fashion, like a rusty mail In monumental mockery.— Shakespeare — Troilus and Cressida. Act III. Sc. 3. L. 150

Neither to change, nor falter, nor repent; This, like thy glory, Titan! is to be Good, great, and joyous, beautiful and free; This is alone Life, Joy, Empire and Victory.— SHELLEY — Prometheus. Act IV.

A little philosophy inclineth man's mind to atheism; but depth in philosophy bringeth men's minds about to religion.— BACON — Essays. Atheism.

Beside, he was a shrewd philosopher, And had read ev'ry text and gloss over; Whate'er the crabbed'st author hath, He understood b' implicit faith.— BUTLER — Hudibras. Pt. I. Canto I. L. 127.

Before Philosophy can teach by Experience, the Philosophy has to be in readiness, the Experience must be gathered and intelligibly recorded.— CARLYLE — Essays. On History.

The Beginning of Philosophy *** is a Consciousness of your own Weakness and inability in necessary things. C.— EPICTETUS — Discourses. Bk. II. Ch. XI. St. 1.

Philosophy goes no further than probabilities, and in every assertion keeps a doubt in reserve.— FROUDE — Short Studies on Great

Subjects. Calvinism. This same philosophy is a good horse in the stable, but an arrant jade on a journey.— GOLDSMITH — The Good-Natured Man. Act I.

I strove with none, for none was worth my strife; Nature I loved; and next to Nature, art. I warm'd both hands against the fire of life; It sinks, and I am ready to depart.— WALTER SAVAGE LANDOR — Dying

Speech of an Old Philosopher. Sublime Philosophy! Thou art the patriarch's ladder, reaching heaven, And bright with beckoning angels;-but alas! We see thee, like the patriarch, but in dreams, By the first step,-dull slumbering on the earth.— BULWER-LYTTON — Richelieu. Act III. Sc. 1. L. 4.

How charming is divine philosophy! Not harsh, and crabbed, as dull fools suppose, But musical as is Apollo's lute, And a perpetual feast of nectar'd sweets, Where no crude surfeit reigns.— MILTON — Mask of Comus. L. 476.

That stone, *** Philosophers in vain so long have sought.— MILTON — Paradise Lost. Bk. III. L. 600.

Philosophy is nothing but Discretion.— JOHN SELDEN — Table Talk. Philosophy.

Adversity's sweet milk, philosophy.— Shakespeare — Romeo and Juliet. Act III. Sc. 3. L. 55.

Fuge magna, licet sub paupere tecto Reges et regum vitâ procurrere amicos. Avoid greatness; in a cottage there may be more real happiness than kings or their favorites enjoy.— HORACE — Epistolæ. I. 10. 32.

Quo me cumque rapit tempestas deferor hospes. Wherever the storm carries me, I go a willing guest.— HORACE — Epistolæ. I. 1. 15.

Injuriarum remedium est oblivio. The remedy for wrongs is to forget them.— SYRUS — Maxims.

Etiam quæ sibi quisque timebat Unius in miseri exitium conversa tulere. What each man feared would happen to himself, did not trouble him when he saw that it would ruin another.— VIRGIL — Eneid. II. 130.

Se moquer de la philosophie c'est vraiment philosophe. To ridicule philosophy is truly philosophical.— PASCAL — Pensées. Art. VII. 35.