“Until the day when God shall deign to reveal the future to man, all human wisdom is summed up in these two… — Alexandre Dumas Copy Share Image
“Philosophy cannot be taught. Philosophy is the union of all acquired knowledge and the genius that applies it: philosophy is the shining… — Alexandre Dumas Copy Share Image
Learning does not make one learned: there are those who have knowledge and those who have understanding. The first requires memory and… — Alexandre Dumas Copy Share Image
“My son, philosophy as I understand it, is reducible to no rules by which it can be learned; it is the amalgamation… — Alexandre Dumas Copy Share Image
“Not their application, certainly, but their principles you may; to learn is not to know; there are the learners and the learned.… — Alexandre Dumas Copy Share Image
To learn is not to know; there are the learners and the learned. Memory makes the one, philosophy the others. — Alexandre Dumas Copy Share Image
“The King! I thought him enough of a philosopher to realize that there is no such thing as murder in politics. You… — Alexandre Dumas Copy Share Image
“Life is a chaplet of little miseries which the philosopher counts with a smile. Be philosophers, as I am, gentlemen; sit down… — Alexandre Dumas Copy Share Image
“Alas, my child,’ he said, ‘human knowledge is very limited and when I have taught you mathematics, physics, history and the three… — Alexandre Dumas Copy Share Image
“Philosophy cannot be taught; it is the application of the sciences to truth; it is like the golden cloud in which the… — Alexandre Dumas Copy Share Image
Philosophy cannot be taught; it is the application of the sciences to truth. — Alexandre Dumas Copy Share Image
“What is the sense in recriminations about things over which the will of God itself is powerless? God can change the future, He cannot… — Alexandre Dumas Copy Share Image
Darling, replied Valentine, has not the count just told us that all human wisdom was contained in these two words,- "Wait and hope"? — Alexandre Dumas Copy Share Image
“when you have the honour to find yourself in the company of ordinary men and the good fortune to be out of politics for… — Alexandre Dumas Copy Share Image
“He rose in his turn, and seizing handfuls of confetti and sweetmeats, with which the carriage was filled, cast them with all the force… — Alexandre Dumas Copy Share Image
“Speak on, madame, speak on, Queen," said Buckingham; "the sweetness of your voice covers the harshness of your words.” — Alexandre Dumas Copy Share Image
“On the 24th of February, 1810, the look-out at Notre-Dame de la Garde signalled the three-master, the Pharaon from Smyrna, Trieste, and Naples.” — Alexandre Dumas Copy Share Image
“what despair to see a woman one loves longing for those thousand nothings from which women compose their happiness, and to be unable to… — Alexandre Dumas Copy Share Image
“Here is a man who was resigned to his fate, who was walking to the scaffold and about to die like a coward, that's… — Alexandre Dumas Copy Share Image
I am not proud, but I am happy; and happiness blinds, I think, more than pride. — Alexandre Dumas Copy Share Image
For there are two distinct sorts of ideas: Those that proceed from the head and those that emanate from the heart. — Alexandre Dumas Copy Share Image
