“I had wanted to compromise with Fate: to escape occasional great agonies by submitting to a whole life of privation and small pains.”
More from Charlotte Brontë on Philosophy
“Beauty is given to dolls, majesty to haughty vixens, but mind, feeling, passion and the crowning grace of fortitude are the attributes of an angel.”
“The soul, fortunately, has an interpreter - often an unconscious but still a faithful interpreter - in the eye.”
“Besides this earth, and besides the race of men, there is an invisible world and a kingdom of spirits: that world is around us, for it is everywhere.”
“A man is master of himself to a certain point, but not beyond it. -William Crimsworth”
“Silence is of different kinds, and breathes different meanings.”
“Conventionality is not morality.”
“And it is you, spirit--with will and energy, and virtue and purity--that I want, not alone with your brittle frame.”
“His mind has the clearness of the deep sea, the patience of its rocks, the force of its billows.”
“I'm a universal patriot...my country is the world.”
“Unheard-of combinations of circumstances demand unheard-of rules.”
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.”
Napoleon
14 quotes“Nothing is more difficult, and therefore more precious, than to be able to decide.”
Samuel Beckett
14 quotes“The end is in the beginning and yet you go on.”
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...”
Buddha
13 quotes“Doubt everything. Find your own light.”