Doe Quote by Samuel Butler

“Only a philosopher would consider taking Oedipus as a model for a normal, unproblematic relation between an action and the maxim of the act.”

— Anonymous

“In fact it seems that there may be not one but two basic dichotomies : on the one hand similitude and difference, on the…

— Gilbert Durand

“The ignorant eschew phenomena but not thought; the wise eschew thought but not phenomena.”

— Huang Po

Theosophy is who Theosophy does, not thinks, not studies, not feels but does.

— Anonymous

“Nay, without thought or conscious desire, might not things external to ourselves vibrate in unison with our moods and passions, atom calling to atom…

— Oscar Wilde

“An absence of mistrust is not enough; there must be a weariness of mistrusting, and, as it were, courage must be impatient with the…

— Stendhal

“I don’t know how to cure the source-itis except to tell you that I can discover a good many possible sources myself for Wise…

— Flannery O'Connor

“[O]ther thinkers have philosophised since the time of Plato, but that does not destroy the interest and beauty of his philosophy”

— Frederick Charles Copleston

“Metaphysics is… at the root of all other sciences, which indeed presuppose it. It has been abandoned by the modern mind, which seems to…

— Dom Eugene Boylan

“Faced with the thoughts, the actions of a woman whom we love, we are as completely at a loss as the world's first natural…

— Marcel Proust

“O for a life of Sensations rather than of Thoughts. -John Keats”

— Louisa Thomsen Brits

“Serendipity reveals a world of people holding views and undergoing experiences unlike ours. But”

— John Freeman