Philosophy Quote by Alexandre Dumas — Inspiring Words on Life, Love & Wisdom

“So, preferring death to capture, I accomplished the most astonishing deeds, and which, more then once, showed me that the too great care we take of our bodies is the only obstacle to the sucess of those projects which require rapid decision, and vigorous and determined execution.”

“To learn is not to know; there are the learners and the learned. Memory makes the one, philosophy the others.”

“How is it that little children are so intelligent and men so stupid? It must be education that does it”

“I began a poem in lines of one syllable. It's rather difficult, but the merit of all things lies in their difficulty. The subject matter is gallant. I'll read you the first canto; it's four hundred verses long and takes one minute.”

“Everyone knows that God protects drunkards and lovers.”

“Darling, has not the count just told us that all human wisdom is summed up in two words? Wait and hope.”

“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.”

“Thought is what we start from: the simple, intimate, immediate datum. Matter is the inferred thing, the mystery.”

“If disaster, so be it, they said to themselves. There was nothing to be done except what could be done. The rest -- like the salt water around them, which swallowed the snow without effort, remaining what it was implacably -- was out of their hands, beyond.”

“Caution not spirit, let it roam wild; for in that natural state dance embraces divine frequency.”

“The Encyclopedia--the advance artillery of reason, the armada of philosophy, the siege engine of the enlightenment...”

“All that man achieves and all that he fails to achieve is the direct result of his own thoughts. His suffering and happiness are evolved from within. As he thinks, so he is. As he continues to think, so he remains.”