Homesickness Quote by George MacDonald Download Open image “Philosophy is really homesickness.” — George MacDonald ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.3 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare Homesickness Philosophy
Homesickness is nothing. Fifty percent of the people in the world are homesick all the time. — John Cheever Copy Share Image
I don't feel proprietorial about the problems of philosophy. History has taught us that many philosophical issues can grow up, leave home and live… — Julian Baggini Copy Share Image
Philosophy is a more intense sort of experience than common life is, just as pure and subtle music, heard in retirement, is something keener… — George Santayana Copy Share Image
“No revelation can be other than partial. If for true revelation a man must be told all the truth, then farewell to revelation; yea,… — George MacDonald Copy Share Image
In low theologies, hell is invariably the deepest truth, and the love of God is not so deep as hell. — George MacDonald Copy Share Image
The region belonging to the pure intellect is straitened: the imagination labours to extend its territories, to give it room. She sweeps across the… — George MacDonald Copy Share Image
Come, then, affliction, if my Father wills, and be my frowning friend. A friend that frowns is better than a smiling enemy. — George MacDonald Copy Share Image
Ah, what is it we send up thither, where our thoughts are either a dissonance or a sweetness and a grace? — George MacDonald Copy Share Image
You must learn to be strong in the dark as well as in the day, else you will always be only half brave. — George MacDonald Copy Share Image
“Few delights can equal the mere presence of one whom we trust utterly.” — George MacDonald Copy Share Image
“You have tasted of death now,” said the old man. “Is it good?” “It is good,” said Mossy. “It is better than life.” “No,”… — George MacDonald Copy Share Image
“I wish I had [made that song]. No, I don't That would be to take it from somebody else. But it's mine for all… — George MacDonald Copy Share Image
Age is not all decay; it is the ripening, the swelling, of the fresh life within, that withers and bursts the husk. — George MacDonald Copy Share Image
At first he thought he felt bad because he was afraid of leading an army, but it wasn't true. He knew he'd make a… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
Concepts, like individuals, have their histories and are just as incapable of withstanding the ravages of time as are individuals. But in and through… — Soren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
Art schools are partly the villain here. (Never mind that I teach in them.) This generation of artists is the first to have been… — Jerry Saltz Copy Share Image
If they don't board and live by themselves, even in their second year they've got no lounge or kitchen table and it's a pretty… — Trevor Nisbett Copy Share Image
“He wonders what it would be like to belong somewhere and never doubt it.” — Stephanie Bishop Copy Share Image
It is a curious emotion, this certain homesickness I have in mind. With Americans, it is a national trait, as native to us as… — Carson McCullers Copy Share Image
“....he will always live in a place he is not from. For a long time he thought that habit would counter this fact and… — Stephanie Bishop Copy Share Image
The impulse for much writing is homesickness. You are trying to get back home, and in your writing you are invoking that home, so… — Joan Didion Copy Share Image
Some people speak and sing and walk and sit and sleep and silence their homesickness, for a long time, and to no avail. Some… — Herta Muller Copy Share Image
Nothing is more often misdiagnosed than our homesickness for Heaven. We think that what we want is sex, drugs, alcohol, a new job, a… — Randy Alcorn Copy Share Image
The soul hardly ever realizes it, but whether he is a believer or not, his loneliness is really a homesickness for God. — Hubert Van Zeller Copy Share Image
