William Shakespeare Quotes About Philosophy

• Presume not that I am the thing I was.

  William Shakespeare

  Art, Philosophy, History

  'Henry IV, Part 2' (1597) act 5, sc. 5, l. [61]

• There are more things in Heaven and Earth, Horatio, than are dreamt of in your philosophy.

  William Shakespeare

  Dream, Spiritual, Philosophy

  'Hamlet' (1601) act 1, sc. 5, l. 166

• There is nothing either good or bad but thinking makes it so.

  William Shakespeare

  Inspirational, Positive, Happiness

  'Hamlet' (1601) act 2, sc. 2, l. [259]

• Adversity's sweet milk, philosophy.

  William Shakespeare

  Sweet, Philosophy, Adversity

  'Romeo And Juliet' (1595) act 3, sc. 3, l. 54

• Hast any philosophy in thee shepherd? .• • • • . . . He that wants money, means and content, is without three good friends; that the property of rain is to wet and fire to burn; that good pasture makes fat sheep, and a great cause of the night is lack of the sun; that he that hath learned no wit by nature nor art may complain of good breeding or comes of a very dull kindred.

  William Shakespeare

  Friendship, Art, Philosophy

  William Shakespeare (1820). “Select Plays of William Shakespeare: In Six Volumes. With the Corrections & Illustrations of Various Commentators. To which are Added, Notes”, p.66

• In scorn of nature, art gave lifeless life.

  William Shakespeare

  Art, Philosophy, History

  William Shakespeare, Katherine Duncan-Jones, H. R. Woudhuysen (2007). “Poems: Third Series”, p.346, Cengage Learning EMEA

• I shall show the cinders of my spirits Through the ashes of my chance.

  William Shakespeare

  Art, Philosophy, History

  William Shakespeare, Samuel Johnson, George Steevens, Isaac Reed (1820). “Select Plays of William Shakespeare: In Six Volumes. With the Corrections & Illustrations of Various Commentators. To which are Added, Notes”, p.394

• All the world's a stage.

  William Shakespeare

  Inspirational, Motivational, Dance

  'As You Like It' (1599) act 2, sc. 7, l. 139

• I have set my life upon a cast, And I will stand the hazard of the die.

  William Shakespeare

  Art, Philosophy, History

  'Richard III' (1591) act 5, sc. 4, l. 9

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