Wallace Stevens Quotes About Philosophy

Quotes about: Philosophy

• To lose sensibility, to see what one sees,
  As if sight had not its own miraculous thrift,
  To hear only what one hears, one meaning alone,
  As if the paradise of meaning ceased
  To be paradise, it is this to be destitute.

  Wallace Stevens

  Philosophy, Sight, Medicine

  Wallace Stevens (2011). “The Palm at the End of the Mind: Selected Poems and a Play”, p.331, Vintage

• The philosopher proves that the philosopher exists. The poet merely enjoys existence.

  Wallace Stevens

  Philosophy, Philosopher, Poet

  Wallace Stevens (2011). “The Necessary Angel: Essays on Reality and the Imagination”, p.56, Vintage

• Perhaps it is of more value to infuriate philosophers than to go along with them.

  Wallace Stevens

  Philosophy, Science, Philosopher

  Wallace Stevens (2011). “Opus Posthumous: Poems, Plays, Prose”, p.248, Vintage

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