As honour, love, obedience, troops of friends, / I must not look to have; but, in their stead, / Curses, not loud but deep, mouth-honour, breath, / Which the poor heart would fain deny, and dare not" (5.3.25-28).
William ShakespeareRead
There are more things in Heaven and Earth, Horatio, than are dreamt of in your philosophy.
Interpretation
The quote suggests that the world is vast and contains many mysteries beyond human understanding.
In this quote from Shakespeare, the speaker addresses Horatio, implying that human understanding and philosophical reasoning are limited. It highlights the idea that there are countless phenomena and truths in existence that surpass what we can currently conceive or theorize within the confines of our established beliefs and understanding.
In practice
In a philosophical discussion about the limits of human knowledge.
As honour, love, obedience, troops of friends, / I must not look to have; but, in their stead, / Curses, not loud but deep, mouth-honour, breath, / Which the poor heart would fain deny, and dare not" (5.3.25-28).
Love bears it out even to the edge of doom.
Good company, good wine, good welcome, can make good people.
Absence doth sharpen love, presence strengthens it; the one brings fuel, the other blows it till it burns clear.
Lord, Lord, how this world is given to lying!
Give it an understanding, but no tongue.
Philosophy takes as her aim the state of happiness...she shows us what are real and what are only apparent evils. She strips men's minds of empty thinking, bestows a greatness that is solid and administers a check to greatness where it is puffed up and all an empty show; she sees that we are left no doubt about the difference between what is great and what is bloated.
Women are not inherently passive or peaceful. We're not inherently anything but human.
Our identities really are a constant negotiation between the story we tell about ourselves and the narrative our societies like to recite.
I tell you, hopeless grief is passionless; That only men incredulous of despair, half-taught in anguish, through the midnight air beat upward to god's throne in loud access of shrieking and reproach
Through seven figures come sensations for a man; there is hearing for sounds, sight for the visible, nostril for smell, tongue for pleasant or unpleasant tastes, mouth for speech, body for touch, passages outwards and inwards for hot or cold breath. Through these come knowledge or lack of it.
There are plenty who regard a wall behind which something is happening as a very curious thing.
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