“For axioms in philosophy are not axioms until they are proved upon our pulses.”
More from John Keats on Philosophy
“Do not all charms fly / At the mere touch of cold philosophy?”
“Beauty is truth, truth beauty,—that is all Ye know on earth, and all ye need to know”
“Beauty is truth, truth beauty”
“Whatever the imagination seizes as Beauty must be truth -whether it existed before or not”
“No one can usurp the heights...But those to whom the miseries of the worldAre misery, and will not let them rest.”
“Beauty is truth - truth beauty - that is all Ye know on earth and all ye need to know.”
“Beauty is truth truth beauty.”
“Nothing ever becomes real till it is experienced.”
“'Beauty is truth, truth beauty,' - that is all ye know on earth, and all ye need to know.”
“What the imagination seizes as beauty must be truth.”
Others on Philosophy
Ludwig Wittgenstein
22 quotes“I don't know why we are here, but I'm pretty sure that it is not in order to enjoy ourselves.”
Christopher Hitchens
22 quotes“To the dumb question "Why me?" the cosmos barely bothers to return the reply: why not?”
Nietzsche
22 quotes“Glance into the world just as though time were gone: and everything crooked will become straight to you.”
Carl Jung
21 quotes“I simply believe that some part of the human Self or Soul is not subject to the laws of space and time.”
Immanuel Kant
20 quotes“An action, to have moral worth, must be done from duty.”
Heraclitus
19 quotes“Nothing endures but change.”
H. L. Mencken
17 quotes“A philosopher is a blind man in a dark room looking for a black cat that isn't there. A theologian is the man who finds...”
C.S. Lewis
15 quotes“For the Present is the point at which time touches eternity.”
Napoleon
14 quotes“Circumstances-what are circumstances? I make circumstances.”
Samuel Beckett
14 quotes“We always find something, eh Didi, to let us think we exist?”
Fyodor Dostoevsky
14 quotes“I am alone, I thought, and they are everybody.”
Paul Valéry
13 quotes“The history of thought may be summed up in these words: it is absurd by what it seeks and great by what it finds.”