Philosophy Quote by John Milton

“How charming is divine Philosophy! Not harsh, and crabbed as dull fools suppose, But musical as is Apollo's lute, And a perpetual feast of…

— John Milton

How charming is divine philosophy! Not harsh and crabb

— John Milton

“Strike, with hand of fire, O weird musician, thy harp strung with Apollo's golden hair; fill the vast cathedral aisles with symphonies sweet and…

— Robert G. Ingersoll

“The divine bards are the friends of my virtue, of my intellect, of my strength. They admonish me that the gleams which flash across…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

The pleasures arising from a right understanding of the divine testimonies are of the most delightful order; earthly enjoyments are utterly contemptible if compared…

— Charles Spurgeon

“O the sad frugality of the middle-income mind. O the humorless neatness of an intellectuality which buys mass-produced candlesticks and carefully puts one at…

— Robert Farrar Capon

“Divinity is not playful. The universe was not made in jest but in solemn, incomprehensible earnest. By a power that is unfathomably secret, and…

— Annie Dillard

My sense of divine brings with it a strange sound of music with its glories, a marvellous melody sounding like a multitude of flutes.

— Paul Twitchell

Kindly tell the tender deer, O morning breeze---I am wandering your desert and the wild countries---Long live the sugar merchant, but why---Is he unkind…

— Hafez

“We delight in marvelous things. One proof of that is that everyone embellishes somewhat when telling a story in the assumption he is pleasing…

— Oliver Pötzsch

“Thus the pleasure that a noble temple gives us is only in part owing to the temple. It is exalted by the beauty of…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

I will point ye out the right path of a virtuous and noble Education; laborious indeed at first ascent, but else so smooth, so…

— John Milton