Augustus William Hare Quotes About Philosophy

Quotes about: Philosophy

• How often one sees people looking far and wide for what they are holding in their hands? Why! I am doing it myself at this very moment.

  Augustus William Hare

  Philosophy, Hands, People

  Augustus William Hare (1827). “Guesses at Truth”

• Poetry is to philosophy what the Sabbath is to the rest of the week.

  Augustus William Hare

  Philosophy, Poetry, Week

  Julius Charles HARE (Archdeacon of Lewes. and HARE (Augustus William)), Augustus William HARE (1847). “Guesses at Truth, by Two Brothers. Third edition. First Series”, p.14

• In science its main worth is temporary, as a stepping-stone to something beyond. Even [Newton's] Principia ... is truly but the beginning of a natural philosophy. Co-author with his brother Julius Hare.

  Augustus William Hare

  Brother, Philosophy, Science

• Philosophy cannot raise the commonalty up to her level: so, if she is to become popular, she must sink to theirs.

  Augustus William Hare

  Philosophy, Levels, Raises

  Augustus William Hare (1827). “Guesses at Truth”, p.295

• When a watch goes ill, it is not enough to move the hands; you must set the regulator. When a man does ill, it is not enough to alter his handiwork, you must regulate his heart.

  Augustus William Hare

  Philosophy, Moving, Heart

• To know the hight [sic] of a mountain, one must climb it.

  Augustus William Hare

  Philosophy, Mountain, Climbs

• Philosophy is the love of wisdom: Christianity is the wisdom of love.

  Augustus William Hare

  Philosophy, Christianity

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