Philosophy Quote by Chantelle Shaw — Inspiring Words on Life, Love & Wisdom

“I believe that just because something didn’t go the way you planned it once, it’s no reason not to try again.”

“He did not wish to be divine. If there had never been a God, the emperor thought, it might have been easier to work out what goodness was. This business of worship, of the abnegation of self in the face of the Almighty, was a distraction, a false trail. Wherever goodness lay, it did not lie in ritual, unthinking obeisance before a deity but rather, perhaps, in the slow, clumsy, error-strewn working out of an individual or collective path.”

“…every feeling is the perception of a truth...”

“FRANCISCUS: How sweetly she looks! Oh, but there's a wrinkle in her brow as deep as philosophy.”

“The map is not the territory.”

“The philosophers write about things as they are and as they appear to be, but as an artist I find that appearance is everything.”

“Place yourself in the middle of the stream of power and wisdom which animates all whom it floats, and you are without effort impelled to truth, to right and a perfect contentment.”