Philosophy Quote by Lewis Carroll — Inspiring Words on Life, Love & Wisdom

“You're thinking about something, and it makes you forget to talk.”

“have i gone mad?”

“Now, here, you see, it takes all the running you can do, to keep in the same place. If you want to get somewhere else, you must run at least twice as fast as that!”

“Come, my child," I said, trying to lead her away. "Wish good-bye to the poor hare, and come and look for blackberries.”

“Twas brillig, and the slithy toves”

“Why it's simply impassible!”

“Mist to mist, drops to drops. For water thou art, and unto water shalt thou return.”

“Society has arisen out of the works of peace; the essence of society is peacemaking. Peace and not war is the father of all things. Only economic action has created the wealth around us; labor, not the profession of arms, brings happiness. Peace builds, war destroys.”

“Do you understand what I'm saying?”

“Despite its successes, in the end, philosophical thinking always falls short of its real goal. It involves both the wonder of aspiring toward the Truth and the distress of falling short of that Truth. In this way, philosophy can be characterized as wondrous distress.”

“I made art a philosophy, and philosophy an art: I altered the minds of men, and the colour of things: I awoke the imagination of my century so that it created myth and legend around me: I summed up all things in a phrase, all existence in an epigram: whatever I touched I made beautiful”

“But is all this true?" said Brutha.”