Philosophy Quote by Graham Harman

“His Greatness the King Pteppicymon XXVIII, Lord of the Heavens, Charioteer of the Wagon of the Sun, Steersman of the Barque of the Sun,…

— Terry Pratchett

He who, in an enlightened and literary society, aspires to be a great poet, must first become a little child. He must take to…

— Thomas B. Macaulay

“Is not he? I had him along for his books and potions, and kept him for his character. Profundities of disgruntled sentiments, injured spirits,…

— Michelle Franklin

“It is symptomatic of the constricting specialism and the oppressive burden of fact of our time that it has been left to the imagination…

— Royston Lambert

“one who, though he never digress to read a Lecture, Moral or Political, upon his own Text, nor enter into men’s hearts, further than…

— Thomas Hobbes

“ Robert Ingersoll 's character was as nearly perfect as it is possible for the character of mortal man to be... none sweeter or…

— Charles Spalding Thomas

[The poet] must write as the interpreter of nature and the legislator of mankind, and consider himself as presiding over the thoughts and manners…

— Samuel Johnson

“His copy was full of lofty echoes: Greek Tragedy; Damocle's sword; manna from heaven; the myth of Sisyphus; the last of the Mohicans; hydra-headed…

— Tarun J. Tejpal

“It was the period in Germany of Goethe’s highest fame. Notwithstanding his rather condescending attitude towards patriotism he had been adopted as the national…

— William Somerset Maugham

“In a human sacrifice to deity there might be at least a mistaken and terrible beauty; in the rites of the moneychangers, where greed,…

— Ursula K. Le Guin

“I ought also here to speak of Jakob Bohme. For he too used the German language for philosophical treatises, and has gained high praise…

— Heinrich Heine

King René of Anjou [(1409-80)]was a strange compound of amiable, great and trifling qualities. He was so excellent a sovereign as to acquire the…

— Horace Walpole