George Eliot Quotes About Philosophy

• Plain women he regarded as he did the other severe facts of life, to be faced with philosophy and investigated by science.

  George Eliot

  Philosophy, Women, Facts

  'Middlemarch' (1871-2) bk. 1, ch. 11

• There are answers which, in turning away wrath, only send it to the other end of the room, and to have a discussion coolly waived when you feel that justice is all on your own side is even more exasperating in marriage than in philosophy.

  George Eliot

  Patience, Philosophy, Wrath

  George Eliot (2015). “Middlemarch”, p.311, Booklassic

• What is your religion? I mean-not what you know about religion but the belief that helps you most?

  George Eliot

  Art, Philosophy, Mean

  George Eliot (2015). “Middlemarch: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.261, Penguin

• But human experience is usually paradoxical, that means incongruous with the phrases of current talk or even current philosophy.

  George Eliot

  Philosophy, Mean, Experience

  George Eliot (2009). “Daniel Deronda”, p.683, Oxford Paperbacks

• How impossible it is for strong healthy people to understand the way in which bodily malaise and suffering eats at the root of one's life! The philosophy that is true - the religion that is strength to the healthy - is constantly emptiness to one when the head is distracted and every sensation is oppressive.

  George Eliot

  Strong, Philosophy, Roots

  George Eliot (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of George Eliot (Illustrated)”, p.6781, Delphi Classics

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