Quotes by Melville, Herman

Old age is always wakeful; as if, the longer linked with life, the les >>

When I think of this life I have led; the desolation of solitude it ha >>

Give me a condor's quill! Give me Vesuvius crater for an inkstand! >>

Quotations about Philosophers and Philosophy

Philosophers call God the great unknown The great misknown is more lik >>

To be a real philosopher all that is necessary is to hate some one els >>

We are much beholden to Machiavel and others, that write what men do, >>

Why, ever since Adam, who has got to the meaning of this great allegory -- the world? Then we pygmies must be content to have out paper allegories but ill comprehended.

Melville, Herman