The Philosopher
Lewis Carroll
The face
The background
- Nationality:
- British
- Branchs:
- Mathematical logic, Children's literature, Fantasy literature, Literary nonsense, Poetry, Photography, Algebra, Recreational Mathematics, Voting Theory
- Period:
- Victorian
The synopsis
The works
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
Through the Looking-Glass
The Hunting of the Snark
Sylvie and Bruno
Jabberwocky
A Tangled Tale
Euclid and his Modern Rivals
Symbolic Logic
What the Tortoise Said to Achilles
The quotes
If you don't know where you are going, any road will get you there.
There are three hundred and sixty-four days when you might get un-birthday presents, and only one for birthday presents, you know.
It's a poor sort of memory that only works backwards.
Contrariwise, if it was so, it might be; and if it were so, it would be; but as it isn't, it ain't. That's logic.
Twinkle, twinkle little bat How I wonder what you're at! Up above the world you fly, Like a tea-tray in the sky.
There comes a pause, for human strength will not endure to dance without cessation; and everyone must reach the point at length of absolute prostration.
Take care of the sense and the sounds will take care of themselves.
Sentence first, verdict afterwards.
Which form of proverb do you prefer Better late than never, or Better never than late?
'What is the use of a book', thought Alice, 'without pictures or conversations?'
No good fish goes anywhere without a porpoise.
That's the reason they're called lessons, because they lesson from day to day.
We called him Tortoise because he taught us.
While the laughter of joy is in full harmony with our deeper life, the laughter of amusement should be kept apart from it. The danger is too great of thus learning to look at solemn things in a spirit of mockery, and to seek in them opportunities for exercising wit.
'When I use a word,' Humpty Dumpty said in rather a scornful tone, 'it means just what I choose it to mean - neither more nor less.'
One of the secrets of life is that all that is really worth the doing is what we do for others.
Begin at the beginning and go on till you come to the end; then stop.
'The time has come,' the walrus said, 'to talk of many things: of shoes and ships - and sealing wax - of cabbages and kings.'
Who in the world am I? Ah, that's the great puzzle.
Everything's got a moral, if only you can find it.
She generally gave herself very good advice, (though she very seldom followed it).
The rule is, jam tomorrow and jam yesterday - but never jam today.
Why, sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast.
His answer trickled through my head like water through a sieve.
I can't go back to yesterday - because I was a different person then.
Sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast.
Always speak the truth, think before you speak, and write it down afterwards.
'But I don't want to go among mad people,' said Alice. 'Oh, you can't help that,' said the cat. 'We're all mad here.'
Oh, 'tis love, 'tis love that makes the world go round.
I have proved by actual trial that a letter, that takes an hour to write, takes only about 3 minutes to read!
But I was thinking of a way To multiply by ten, And always, in the answer, get The question back again.