Philosophy Quote by Sherman Alexie — Inspiring Words on Life, Love & Wisdom

“The ordinary can be like medicine.”

“And believe me, a good piece of chicken can make anybody believe in the existence of God.”

“Everyone I have lost”

“Did she say anything before she died?" he asked.”

“You must be a rich man," she said. "Not much of a warrior, though. You keep letting me sneak up on you.”

“Poetry = Anger x Imagination”

“Rainer Maria Rilke greeted and wrestled with the angels of his Duino Elegies in the solitude of a castle surrounded by white cliffs tall trees and the sea. I greeted most of mine in the solitude of a house that still vibrated with the throbs of a singular life that had helped shape many lives and with the ache of attempts to render useful service to that life. The River of Winged Dreams was therefore constructed as a link between dimensions of past and future emotions and intellect and matter and spirit.”

“Merely fact-minded sciences make merely fact-minded people.”

“I don’t have a philosophy: I have senses...”

“Irreverence is a most necessary ingredient of religion. Not to speak of its importance in philosophy. Irreverence is the only way left to us for testing our universe.”

“To some extent the romantic condemnation of rationality stems from the very effectiveness of rationality in uplifting men from primitive conditions.”

“Good and bad are but names very readily transferable to that or this; the only right is what is after my constitution, the only wrong what is against it.”