Philosophic Quotes

Every dogma, every philosophic or theological creed, was at its inception a statement in terms of the intellect of a certain inner experience.

Stripped of ethical rationalizations and philosophical pretensions, a crime is anything that a group in power chooses to prohibit.

Poetry is finer and more philosophical than history; for poetry expresses the universal, and history only the particular.

Hence poetry is something more philosophic and of graver import than history, since its statements are rather of the nature of universals, whereas those of history are singulars.

We will grieve not, rather find strength in what remains behind. In the faith that looks through death, in years that bring the philosophic mind.