Only poets and philosophers see the world as it really is…

“He(E.A.Poe) cannot be blamed for not saying clearly what beauty is. The greatest philosophers in the world acknowledge in the end that the best…

— Étienne Gilson

“Poets and philosophers are the unacknowledged legislators of the world.”

— Percy Bysshe Shelley

In the beginning the Poets and Philosophers taught the world to see. Then after that any form of education was no longer free.

— Stanley Victor Paskavich

“When reading, one needs to remember that poets and philosophers are not prescribing courses of action but exploring aspects of existence.”

— Louise Cowan

Poets, not otherwise than philosophers, painters, sculptors, and musicians, are, in one sense, the creators, and, in another, the creations, of their age.

— Percy Bysshe Shelley

“Just as summer-killed meat draws flies, so the court draws spurious sages, philosophists, and acosmists who remain there as long as their purses and…

— Gene Wolfe

Because philosophy arises from awe, a philosopher is bound in his way to be a lover of myths and poetic fables. Poets and philosophers…

— Thomas Aquinas

“A man is lying under machine-gun fire on a street in an embattled city. He looks at the pavement and sees a very amusing…

— Czesław Miłosz

We rely upon the poets, the philosophers, and the playwrights to articulate what most of us can only feel, in joy or sorrow. They…

— Helen Hayes

The poets and philosophers I once loved had it wrong. Death does not come to us all, nor does the passage of time dim…

— Anonymous

The great philosophers are poets who believe in the reality of their poems.

— Antonio Machado

“All philosophers must, therefore, doff their hats to the poets when they discover that the path of reason takes them only so far.”

— Hagiwara Sakutaro

Being tired of all illusions and of everything about illusions – the loss of illusions, the uselessness of having them, the prefatigue of having…

— Fernando Pessoa

“Let us give up the illusion of hope, which betrays; of love, which wearies; of life, which surfeits but never satisfies; and even of…

— Fernando Pessoa

“In one of these tales, ‘The Ascetic’, the title character tells his interlocutor that paradises and nirvanas are ‘illusions inside other illusions. If you…

— Fernando Pessoa