As the highly colored birds do not fly around in the dull…

We all have these shades in our nature: it's a spectrum within all of us.

— Johnny Flynn

The leaves had fallen from the trees and lay crisp and crackling beneath his feet. Picking one up he marveled, not for the first…

— Louise Penny

A tardiness in nature, Which often leaves the history unspoke, That it intends to do.

— William Shakespeare

Whenever nature leaves a hole in a person's mind, she generally plasters it over with a thick coat of self-conceit.

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Nature is, above all, profligate. Don't believe them when they tell you how economical and thrifty nature is, whose leaves return to the soil.…

— Annie Dillard

To despise riches, may, indeed, be philosophic, but to dispense them worthily, must surely be more beneficial to mankind.

— Fanny Burney

We may say that hysteria is a caricature of an artistic creation, a compulsion neurosis a caricature of a religion, and a paranoiac delusion…

— Sigmund Freud

After a study of some forty years and more of the great religions of the world, I find none so perfect, none so scientific,…

— Annie Besant

We must make the building of a free society once more an intellectual adventure, a deed of courage… Unless we can make the philosophic…

— Friedrich August von Hayek

We believe that the materials and the stories taken from the raw can be finer (more real in the philosophic sense) than the acted…

— John Grierson

“The philosophic outlook rises above all sectarian controversy. It finds its own position not only by appreciating and synthesizing what is solidly based in…

— Paul Brunton

The philosophic spirit of inquiry may be traced to brute curiosity, and that to the habit of examining all things in search of food.…

— William Winwood Reade

Philosophy begins in wonder. And, at the end, when philosophic thought has done its best, the wonder remains.

— Alfred North Whitehead

The Germans are the most philosophic people in the world, and the greatest smokers: now I trace their philosophy to their smoking. Smoking has…

— George Henry Borrow

It takes an unusually philosophic mind to accept that all one’s suffering might be to no end, really, in the larger scheme of things.

— Anonymous