Philosophy Quote by Charles Baudelaire — Inspiring Words on Life, Love & Wisdom

“And, drunk with my own madness, I shouted at him furiously, "Make life beautiful! Make life beautiful!”

“Always be a poet, even in prose.”

“My heart is lost; the beasts have eaten it.”

“Imagination is the queen of truth, and possibility is one of the regions of truth. She is positively akin to infinity.”

“My love, do you recall the object which we saw,”

“On peut chercher dans Dieu le complice et l'ami qui manquent toujours. Dieu est l'éternel confident dans cette tragédie dont chacun est le héros.”

“Different languages, the same thoughts; servant to thoughts and their masters.”

“Philosophy cannot and should not give us an account of faith, but should understand itself and know just what it has indeed to offer, without taking anything away, least of all cheating people out of something by making them think it is nothing.”

“During periods of root expansion things have always looked as confused and topsy-turvy and purposeless as they do now. The whole Renaissance is supposed to have resulted from the topsy-turvy feeling caused by Columbus’ discovery of a new world. It just shook people up. The topsy-turviness of that time is recorded everywhere. There was nothing in the flat-earth views of the Old and New Testaments that predicted it. Yet people couldn’t deny it. The only way they could assimilate it was to abandon the entire medieval outlook and enter into a new expansion of reason.”

“Once someone asked me, "What do you want to be your epitaph?" So I said, "Paulo Coelho died when he was alive.”

“There is not much to be got anywhere in the world. It is filled with misery and pain; if a man escapes these, boredeom lies in wait for him at every corner. Nay more; it is evil which generally has the upper hand, and folly that makes the most noise. Fate is cruel and mankind pitiable.”