Philosophy Quote by Wallace Stevens — Inspiring Words on Life, Love & Wisdom

“Conceptions are artificial. Perceptions are essential.”

“A violent order is disorder; and a great disorder is an order.”

“The only emperor is the emperor of ice cream.”

“Poetry is an abstraction bloodied.”

“The Poem That Took The Place Of A Mountain”

“After the final no there comes a yes / And on that yes the future world depends.”

“The world is a good judge of things, for it is in natural ignorance, which is man's true state. The sciences have two extremes which meet. The first is the pure natural ignorance in which all men find themselves at birth. The other extreme is that reached by great intellects, who, having run through all that men can know, find they know nothing, and come back again to that same ignorance from which they set out; but this is a learned ignorance which is conscious of itself. Those between the two, who have departed from natural ignorance and not been able to reach the other, have some smattering of this vain knowledge and pretend to be wise. These trouble the world and are bad judges of everything. The people and the wise constitute the world; these despise it, and are despised. They judge badly of everything, and the world judges rightly of them.”

“Bloom as if you want to make the whole world beautiful.”

“Of Equality--as if it harm'd me, giving others the same chances and rights as myself--as if it were not indispensable to my own rights that others possess the same.”

“Your principle should be to see everything and say nothing. The world changes so rapidly that if you want to get on you cannot afford to align yourself with any person or point of view.”

“Never say no to now”