The Philosopher
Leslie Stephen
The face
The background
- Nationality:
- English
- Schools:
- Ethical movement
- Branchs:
- Literature, History, Biography, Mountaineering, Ethics
- Period:
- 19th century
The synopsis
The works
The Poll Degree from a Third Point of View
The "Times" on the American War: A Historical Study
Sketches from Cambridge
The Playground of Europe
Essays on Free Thinking and Plain Speaking
Hours in a Library
The History of English Thought in the Eighteenth Century
Samuel Johnson
Swift
The Science of Ethics
Life of Henry Fawcett
An Agnostic's Apology and Other Essays
Sir Victor Brooke, Sportsman and Naturalist
The Life of Sir James Fitzjames Stephen, Bart., K.C.S.I.
Social Rights and Duties
Studies of a Biographer
The English Utilitarians
George Eliot
English Literature and Society in the Eighteenth Century
Hobbes
Sir Leslie Stephen's Mausoleum Book
The quotes
If atheism is to be used to express the state of mind in which God is identified with the unknowable, and theology is pronounced to be a collection of meaningless words about unintelligible chimeras, then I have no doubt, and I think few people doubt.
Chance is a name for our ignorance.
Walking is the natural recreation for a man who desires not absolutely to suppress his intellect but to turn it out to play for a season. All great men of letters have therefore been enthusiastic walkers.
The truth cannot be asserted without denouncing the falsehood.
Every man who says frankly and fully what he thinks is doing a public service.
If you wish at once to do nothing and be respectable nowadays, the best pretext is to be at work on some profound study.