Quote of William Shakespeare - There are more things in heaven...

Biography - William Shakespeare:

English poet, playwright and actor.
Born: 1564 - Died: 1616
Period:
17th century
16th century
Place of birth: United Kingdom

There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio,
Than are dreamt of in your philosophy.

William Shakespeare - The Tragedy of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark

Note

Source: The Tragedy of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark

Wikisource - Hamlet - The Arden Shakespeare - 1899 (en)

Wikisource - Shakespeare - Œuvres complètes (fr)

There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio,
Than are dreamt of in your philosophy.

Translation

(German, French)

Es gibt Dinge zwischen Himmel und Erde, Horatio, von denen sich eure Schulweisheit nichts träumen läßt.

William Shakespeare - Die Tragödie von Hamlet, Prinz von Dänemark

Il y a plus de choses sur la terre et dans le ciel, Horatio, qu’il n’en est rêvé dans votre philosophie.

William Shakespeare - La Tragique Histoire d'Hamlet, prince de Danemark

Quotes about heaven:

Look up to the sky. You'll never find rainbows if you’re looking down.

Charlie Chaplin /

heaven

They change the sky, not their soul, who run across the sea.

Quintus Horatius Flaccus - Epistles /

I believe that if one always looked at the skies, one would end up with wings.

Gustave Flaubert /

No man has received from nature the right to command others. Liberty is a gift from heaven.

Denis Diderot - Encyclopédie /

Two things fill the mind with ever new and increasing admiration and reverence, the more often and more steadily one reflects on them: the starry heavens above me and the moral law within me.

Immanuel Kant - Critique of Practical Reason /

Help yourself and heaven will help you.

Jean de La Fontaine - Le Chartier embourbé /

All about heaven...

Quotes about earth:

We do not inherit the earth from our ancestors; we borrow it from our children.

One can be a hero without ravaging the earth.

Nicolas Boileau-Despréaux /

Earth laughs in flowers.

Ralph Waldo Emerson - Hamatreya /

For all things come from earth, and all things end by becoming earth.

Xenophanes /

earth

You must be very polite to the Earth
And to the sun

Jacques Prévert /

The world is changing: I feel it in the water, I feel it in the earth, and I smell it in the air.

John Ronald Reuel Tolkien - The Lord of the Rings /

All about earth...

Quotes about philosophy:

Philosophy is a battle against the bewitchment of our mind by means of our language.

Ludwig Wittgenstein - Philosophical Investigations /

Arthur Schopenhauer - The World as Will and Representation /

To live without philosophizing is properly to have one's eyes closed and never attempt to open them.

René Descartes - Principles of Philosophy /

To make light of philosophy is to be a true philosopher.

Blaise Pascal /

philosophy

Music is a higher revelation than all wisdom and philosophy.

Ludwig van Beethoven /

Philosophize is to learn how to die.

Michel de Montaigne - Essays /

All about philosophy...

William Shakespeare also said...

How far that little candle throws its beams! So shines a good deed in a naughty world.

William Shakespeare - The Merchant of Venice /

To be, or not to be, that is the question.

William Shakespeare - The Tragedy of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark /

What's done cannot be undone.

William Shakespeare - Macbeth /

fact

Let me be that I am and seek not to alter me.

William Shakespeare - Much Ado About Nothing /

What's in a name? that which we call a rose
By any other name would smell as sweet;

William Shakespeare - Romeo und Julia /

Meet the time as it seeks us.

William Shakespeare - The Tragedy of Cymbeline /

time

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