Language Quote by Stephen McDonough

Music expresses that which cannot be put into words.

— Victor Hugo

States of soul rightly expressed, as the poet expresses them in moments of pure inspiration, retain forever the power of creating like states. It…

— John Lancaster Spalding

“Wonder acts upon a man like a shock, he is "moved" and "shaken", and in the dislocation that succeeds all that he had taken…

— Josef Pieper

The words of that philosopher who offers no therapy for human suffering are empty and vain.

— Epicurus

“I am neither a philosopher nor a thinker, but simply follower of my own thoughts.”

— M.F. Moonzajer

By all means marry; if you get a good wife, you'll be happy. If you get a bad one, you'll become a philosopher.

— Socrates

As our domestic fowls are said to have their original in the wild pheasant of India, so our domestic thoughts have their prototypes in…

— Henry David Thoreau

And that, in a way, was the burden of being a philosopher: one knew what one had to do, but it was so often…

— Alexander McCall Smith

“Mr. Pickwick was a philosopher, but philosophers are only men in armour, after all.”

— Charles Dickens

When Eudæmonidas heard a philosopher arguing that only a wise man can be a good general, "This is a wonderful speech," said he; "but…

— Plutarch

To become a philosopher, start by walking very slowly.

— Nassim Nicholas Taleb

“Since Pawlow and his pupils have succeeded in causing the secretion of saliva in the dog by means of optic and acoustic signals, it…

— Jacques Loeb