“The future was with Fate. The present was our own.~ The Poison Belt”
More from Sir Arthur Conan Doyle on Philosophy
“The world is full of obvious things which nobody by any chance ever observes.”
“It is only when you touch the higher that you realize how low we may be among the possibilities of creation.”
“I am afraid that I rather give myself away when I explain," said he. "Results without causes are much more impressive.”
“To a great mind, nothing is little.”
“You yourself may not be luminous, but you are a conductor of light.”
“Once you eliminate the impossible, whatever remains, no matter how improbable, must be the truth.”
Others on Philosophy
Ludwig Wittgenstein
22 quotes“The logic of the world is prior to all truth and falsehood.”
Christopher Hitchens
22 quotes“How much vanity must be concealed – not too effectively at that – in order to pretend that one is the personal object of...”
Nietzsche
22 quotes“One does not hate as long as one has a low esteem of someone, but only when one esteems him as an equal or a superior.”
Carl Jung
21 quotes“The pendulum of the mind oscillates between sense and nonsense, not between right and wrong.”
Immanuel Kant
20 quotes“Morality is not the doctrine of how we may make ourselves happy, but how we may make ourselves worthy of happiness.”
Heraclitus
19 quotes“All things flow nothing abides.”
H. L. Mencken
17 quotes“We are here and it is now. Further than that, all human knowledge is moonshine.”
C.S. Lewis
15 quotes“[Consciousness] is either inexplicable illusion, or else revelation.”
Samuel Beckett
14 quotes“The end is in the beginning and yet you go on.”
Napoleon
14 quotes“Nothing is more difficult, and therefore more precious, than to be able to decide.”
Fyodor Dostoevsky
14 quotes“Consciousness is man's greatest misfortune, still I know that man loves it and will not exchange it for any satisfaction...”
Isaac Asimov
13 quotes“Society is much more easily soothed than one's own conscience.”