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

“Il y a les sachants et les savants: c'est la mémoire qui fait les uns, c'est la philosophie qui fait les autres. La philosophie ne s'apprend pas; la philosophie est la réunion des sciences acquises au génie qui les applique.”

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

“There is neither happiness nor misery in the world; there is only the comparison of one state with another, nothing more. He who has felt the deepest grief is best able to experience supreme happiness. We must have felt what it is to die, Morrel, that we may appreciate the enjoyments of life.”

“I don’t think man was meant to attain happiness so easily. Happiness is like those palaces in fairy tales whose gates are guarded by dragons: we must fight in order to conquer it.”

“God wants man, whom he has created and in whose heart he has so profoundly entrenched a love for life, to do all he can to preseve an existence that is sometimes so painful, but always so dear to him.”

“She remembered who she was”

“Standing in the middle between the idea of an event and the actual event, a strange kind of physical reality just in the middle between possibility and reality.”

“What good is your reality, when justice fails and dishonesty is glossed over and the ones who keep faith suffer .... What good is your reality then?”

“Wisdom is seeing something in a non-habitual manner.”

“If once a man indulges himself in murder, very soon he comes to think little of robbing; and from robbing he next comes to drinking and Sabbath-breaking, and from that to incivility and procrastination.”

“THE MAXIMS OF MEDICINE”