Air Quote by John Keats

“Philosophy will clip an Angel's wings, Conquer all mysteries by rule and line, Empty the haunted air, and gnomèd mine— Unweave a rainbow, as…

— John Keats

There was an awful rainbow once in heaven: We know her woof, her texture; she is given In the dull catalogue of common things.…

— John Keats

Philosophy means liberation from the - routine, soaring above the well known, seeing it in new perspectives, arousing wonder and the wish to fly.

— Walter Kaufmann

Philosophy finds itself to be no longer anything but the heir to a fabulous mystical theology, but missing a God and wiping the slate…

— Georges Bataille

My soule her wings doth spread And heaven-ward flies, Th' Almighty's Mysteries to read In the large volumes of the skies.

— William Habington

Philosophy ... bears witness to the deepest love of reflection, to absolute delight in wisdom.

— Novalis

Be thou the rainbow in the storms of life. The evening beam that smiles the clouds away, and tints tomorrow with prophetic ray.

— Lord Byron

Days pass when I forget the mystery. Problems insoluble and problems offering their own ignored solutions jostle for my attention, they crowd its antechamber…

— Denise Levertov

“My recent adventures have made me quite the philosopher, especially at night, when I hear naught but the stream grinding boulders into pebbles through…

— David Mitchell

The rainbow bursts like magic on mine eyes! In hues of ancient promise there imprest...

— Charles Tennyson Turner

Crossing the uplands of time, Skirting the borders of night, Scaling the face of the peak of dreams, We enter the region of light,…

— Grace Coolidge

Philosophy is the toil which can never tire persons engaged in it. All ways are strewn with roses, and the farther you go, the…

— Anonymous