Philosophy Quote by Robert Burton

“Heraclitus once said "we cannot exist without strife" but that does not mean we cannot co-exist without it.”

— Anike Kirsten

“With growing sorrow and fear, the poor man painfully saw how wasted and empty the life that lay behind him had become. It no…

— Hermann Hesse

“One could not stand and watch very long without being philosophical, without beginning to deal in symbols and similes, and to hear the hog-squeal…

— Upton Sinclair

“A man who has suffered much and wandered much has pleasure out of his sorrows.”

— Homer

“He lived within himself, nourished by his own substance, like some torpid creature which hibernates in caves. Solitude had reacted upon his brain like…

— Joris-Karl Huysmans

“And further, observing that all this indeterminate substance is in motion, and that no true predication can be made of that which changes, they…

— Aristotle

“I speak in a poem of the ancient food of heroes: humiliation, unhappiness, discord. Those things are given to us to transform, so that…

— Jorge Luis Borges

“What madness, to love a man as something more than human! I lived in a fever, convulsed with tears and sighs that allowed me…

— St. Augustine

“Wept for the death of an ardent and immature love that had been unable to bring any comfort or peace to the beloved. And…

— Mary Balogh

“I got to see with my own eyes the boundaries of men’s compassion alongside their unfathomable brutality, their ingenuity alongside astounding folly, their insanity…

— Thomas L. Friedman

[Heraclitus' language] dispenses with lightness and artificial decoration, foremost out of disgust for humanity and out of [his own] defiant feeling.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“There are many shades in the danger of adventures and gales, and it is only now and then that there appears on the face…

— Joseph Conrad