A Quote by Anne Carson

Philosophy - hopeless. Yet it gives me hope.

Anne Carson

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Gives Hope Hopeless Me Philosophy

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Anne Carson
Canadian - Poet
Born: June 21, 1950

Hope means hoping when things are hopeless, or it is no virtue at all... As long as matters are really hopeful, hope is mere flattery or platitude; it is only when everything is hopeless that hope begins to be a strength.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

Education is the great equalizer of our time. It gives hope to the hopeless and creates chances for those without.

Kofi Annan

Philosophy seems to me on the whole a rather hopeless business.

Bertrand Russell

The evangelist is the world's hopeless romantic, and just like a hopeless romantic, he must hope for the miracle of God more than the romance itself.

Criss Jami

Bible prophecy helps us to better understand the future and realize the urgent need to spread the Gospel. It motivates us to personal purity and gives us hope in a hopeless age.

Tim LaHaye

The real discovery is the one which enables me to stop doing philosophy when I want to. The one that gives philosophy peace, so that it is no longer tormented by questions which bring itself into question.

Ludwig Wittgenstein

Without time,” the angel said, “you have only the bottomless, shapeless mire of eternity.” “FYI, philosophy bores me.” “Not philosophy. Reality. Time is what gives life significance.

J.R. Ward

Christ's resurrection not only gives you hope for the future; it gives you hope to handle your scars right now.

Timothy Keller

Don't hang on to your failures, because you can always try again. Trying gives hope. Hope gives us life.

Tsem Tulku

A little hope, even hopeless hope, never hurt anybody.

John Steinbeck

I'd almost say hope isn't what it used to be. It's very difficult today to be a teacher. I speak to children. And tell them, look, no matter what, you must have hope. You must. When I invoke Camus, who said when there is no hope, you must invent hope. . .hope is something that is not what God gives us. It's like peace. It's a gift that one can give to one another. Only another person can push me to despair. And only another person can push me to hope. Its my choice.

Elie Wiesel

It seems hopeless, hopeless. Those who eat meat [at public expense] are a mean, selfish lot, and so the country is doomed. Our only hope lies in the grass-roots folk who eat our traditional food.

Yoshida Shoin

Love gives life to the lifeless. Love lights a flame in the heart that is cold. Love brings hope to the hopeless and gladdens the hearts of the sorrowful. In the world of existence there is indeed no greater power than the power of love