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

“True love always makes a man better, no matter what woman inspires it.”

“For the happy man prayer is only a jumble of words, until the day when sorrow comes to explain to him the sublime language by means of which he speaks to God.”

“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.”

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

“Everyone knows that God protects drunkards and lovers.”

“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.”

“Science must not impose any philosophy, any more than the telephone must tell us what to say.”

“There is only one religion - it is a way a man dies.”

“There is a truth in Schopenhauer’s view that philosophy is an organism, and that a book on philosophy, with a beginning and end, is a sort of contradiction. ... In philosophy matters are not simple enough for us to say ‘Let’s get a rough idea’, for we do not know the country except by knowing the connections between the roads.”

“The pity of it was that this discovery, if such it was, now seemed so stale, so profitless to me. What good was it? What good did thinking ever do?”

“Man looks on woman from his vantage point and reduces her to a being that is not for-itself but for-him.”

“Man, you see, swings between nihilism and spirituality. Man, you see, swings between utmost bliss and the feelings of utter despair. It’s a rollercoaster, our lives. One can’t just go higher, higher all the time.”