Logo
My definition [of a philosopher] is of a man up in a balloon, with

My definition [of a philosopher] is of a man up in a balloon, with his family and friends holding the ropes which confine him to earth and trying to haul him down. – Louisa May Alcott, in Life, Letters, and Journals, ed. E.D. Cheney, 1889

No other quotes found from this author.
Other Quotes from
Philosophy
category

Philosophy is a mental concept of the universe. – Martin H. Fischer (1879–1962)

Category:
Philosophy

Because philosophy arises from awe, a philosopher is bound in his way to be a lover of myths and poetic fables. Poets and philosophers are alike in being big with wonder. – Thomas Aquinas

Category:
Philosophy

The profoundest thoughts of the philosophers have something trickle about them. A lot disappears in order for something to suddenly appear in the palm of the hand. – Elias Canetti

Category:
Philosophy

Philosophy begins in wonder. And, at the end, when philosophic thought has done its best, the wonder remains. – Alfred North Whitehead

Category:
Philosophy

Random Quotes

Ive always been a movie guy, movies have been my thing. I love movies, all kinds of movies. – Christopher Nolan

Category:
movies

As long as you understand that you find happiness through family, friends and love, then money is just a nice bonus. – Ioan Gruffudd

Category:
Happiness

That in man which cannot be domesticated is not his evil but his goodness. – Antonio Porchia, Voces, 1943, translated from Spanish by W.S. Merwin

Category:
Humankind

And so with the sunshine and the great bursts of leaves growing on the trees, just as things grow in fast movies, I had that familiar conviction that life was beginning over again with the summer. – F. Scott Fitzgerald

Category:
Summer