Philosophy Quote by Lawrence Nault — Inspiring Words on Life, Love & Wisdom

“The ones who move gently through the world leave deeper footprints than the ones who shout.”

“To write is to plant seeds in the minds of strangers. Some bloom long after you’re gone.”

“To walk among trees is to walk among elders who speak without sound.”

“The Earth is more than scenery—it is ancestry.”

“The land doesn’t forget who listened. Neither do people.”

“Every generation thinks it’s the last to care. But the soil holds proof of hands that worked before ours.”

“In the battle that is philosophy all the techniques of war, including looting and camouflage, are permissible.”

“If you alone found out what the lie was, then you're probably right—it would make no great difference. But if you ALL found out what the lie was, it might conceivably make a very great difference indeed.”

“There is something fascinating about science. One gets such wholesale returns of conjecture out of such a trifling investment of fact.”

“Let's think the unthinkable, let's do the undoable. Let us prepare to grapple with the ineffable itself, and see if we may not eff it after all.”

“You are not just for the right or left, but for what is right over the wrong.”

“The illness of a doctor is always worse than the illnesses of his patients.The patients only feel, but the doctor, as well as feeling, has a pretty good idea of the destructive effect of the disease on his constitution.This is a case in which knowledge brings death nearer.”