True philosophy invents nothing; it merely establishes and describes what is.
—Victor Cousin
There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio,
Than are dreamt of in your philosophy.
—William Shakespeare
Art requires philosophy, just as philosophy requires art. Otherwise, what would become of beauty?
—Paul Gauguin
Philosophy and Art both render the invisible visible by imagination.
—George Henry Lewes
Whatever the philosophers may say, it remains true that, from the first hour of man's waking consciousness until that consciousness ceases, his most ardent desire is to be happy, and that the moment of his most profound regret is when he becomes convinced that on this earth perfect happiness cannot be found.
—Carl Hilty in Happiness: Essays on the Meaning of Life