Philosophy Quote by Umberto Eco

“Truly, you understand the reverse art of alchemy, the depreciating of the most valuable things! Try, just for once, another recipe, in order not…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“Poetry is like an innocent young maiden who is extremely beautiful, and whom many other maidens, who are the other fields of knowledge, are…

— Cervantes

The Alchemyst had discovered that the seats revolved and had been amusing himself by swinging back and forth. His chair squeaked with each turn.Finally…

— Michael Scott

“There was a young man favorably endowed as an Alcibiades. He lost his way in the world. In his need he looked about for…

— Soren Kierkegaard

“Alchemy is the name of this temple of images. Here a towering wall of video flashes glamorous vamps and alien androgynes over the heads…

— Karen D. Best

“A remarkable thing happens in the experience of my fools: from them not only true things, but even sharp reproaches, will be listened to;…

— Erasmus

“There are two kinds of Fools. The real Fool is the most sincere of mortals: the Court Fool and his kind—the trifling, jesting buffoon—but…

— Albion Winegar Tourgée

“Ma chère, I serve a man who multiplied the loaves and fishes”—he smiled, nodding at the pool, where the swirls of the carps’ feeding…

— Diana Gabaldon

“Vonnegut had seen the worst of human conduct and refused to lie about the sort of trouble we were in, but who had not…

— Steve Almond

“...the pleasures of the world are chiefly folly, and the business of it mostly knavery, and both nothing better than vanity; the men of…

— Henry Fielding

“To summon things into being by the mysterious alchemy of language. Atlantic. Atlas. Aloft. He was holding the image of his own people up:…

— Colum McCann

“I question whether any Turk, of all that have entered the Paradise of Opium-eaters, can have had half the pleasure I had. But, indeed,…

— Thomas de Quincey