Because philosophy arises from awe, a philosopher is bound…

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

— Louise Cowan

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

— Percy Bysshe Shelley

“Only poets and philosophers see the world as it really is, for only to them is it given to live without illusions. To see…

— Fernando Pessoa

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

The spontaneous tendency to invoke a Final Cause in explanation of every difficulty is characteristic of metaphysical philosophy. It arises from a general tendency…

— George Henry Lewes

Philosophy arises from an unusually obstinate attempt to arrive at real knowledge. What passes for knowledge in ordinary life suffers from three defects: it…

— Bertrand Russell

The chief benefit, which results from philosophy, arises in an indirect manner, and proceeds more from its secret, insensible influence, than from its immediate…

— David Hume

“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

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

“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

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

Fables should be taught as fables, myths as myths, and miracles as poetic fantasies. To teach superstitions as truths is a most terrible thing.…

— Hypatia

He (Mohammed) seduced the people by promises of carnal pleasure to which the concupiscence of the flesh urges us. His teaching also contained precepts…

— Thomas Aquinas

Poetical taste is the only magician whose wand is not broken. No hand, except its own, can dissolve the fabric of beauty in which…

— Robert Aris Willmott