“Experience has shown, and a true philosophy will always show, that a vast, perhaps the larger portion of the truth arises from the seemingly irrelevant.”
Edgar Allan Poe
“All religion, my friend, is simply evolved out of fraud, fear, greed, imagination, and poetry.”
Edgar Allan Poe
“Science has not yet taught us if madness is or is not the sublimity of the intelligence. “
Edgar Allan Poe
“They who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night.”
Edgar Allan Poe
“All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream.”
Edgar Allan Poe
“Words have no power to impress the mind without the exquisite horror of their reality.”
Edgar Allan Poe
“The true genius shudders at incompleteness – and usually prefers silence to saying something which is not everything it should be.”
Edgar Allan Poe
“Stupidity is a talent for misconception.”
Edgar Allan Poe
“If you wish to forget anything on the spot, make a note that this thing is to be remembered.”
Edgar Allan Poe
“To vilify a great man is the readiest way in which a little man can himself attain greatness.”
Edgar Allan Poe
“I am above the weakness of seeking to establish a sequence of cause and effect, between the disaster and the atrocity.”
Edgar Allan Poe
“It is the nature of truth in general, as of some ores in particular, to be richest when most superficial.”
Edgar Allan Poe