“The mind is its own place and in itself can make a heaven of hell a hell of heaven.”
More from John Milton on Philosophy
“Deep versed in books and shallow in himself.”
“For neither man nor angel can discern hypocrisy the only evil that walks invisible.”
“Reason is also choice.”
“Our torments also may in length of timeBecome our Elements.”
“...So little knowsAny but God alone to value rightThe good before him but perverts best thingsTo worst abuse or to their meanest use.”
“Neither man nor angel can discern hypocrisy, the only evil that walks invisible except to God alone.”
“What hath night to do with sleep?”
“The mind is a universe and can make a heaven of hell, a hell of heaven.”
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.”
Fyodor Dostoevsky
14 quotes“I am alone, I thought, and they are everybody.”
Samuel Beckett
14 quotes“We always find something, eh Didi, to let us think we exist?”
Hermann Hesse
13 quotes“Once a man takes honesty as his ideal, he cannot confine himself to showing the pleasant and reasonable side of his natu...”