George Eliot Quotes about Philosophy

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

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

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

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

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