In Hamlet who said there are more thing in heaven and earth than in your philosophy?

Question

All i need is who said that quote and what does it mean?

Answer 1

Hamlet did

The meaning of this quote (as opposed to the context, which is given above) is that often when things seem wrong, confusing or unjust that there is more to a system than meets the eye, levels of truth, meaning and complexity not visible to the casual observer. In the specific case, Horatio who was part of the unfolding plot was unable to see the rationale for the ghosts behavior, which was part of the larger plot.  

Hamlet:

Swear by my sword

Never to speak of this that you have heard.

Ghost:

[Beneath] Swear by his sword.

Hamlet:

Well said, old mole, canst work i' th' earth so fast?

A worthy pioner! Once more remove, good friends.

Horatio:

O day and night, but this is wondrous strange!

Hamlet:

And therefore as a stranger give it welcome.

There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio,

Than are dreamt of in your philosophy.

Hamlet Act 1, scene 5, 159–167

Horatio and Marcellus, though advised against it, barge into Hamlet's conversation with his father's ghost [see SOMETHING IS ROTTEN IN THE STATE OF DENMARK]. Hamlet is a little unforthcoming with the news imparted by this spirit, who is still rustling about under the stage. So it's hard to figure what Horatio and Marcellus are being asked to keep quiet, though Hamlet and the burrowing ghost (a "pioner," or miner) insist.

Horatio, a model of rationality, is still having a hard time swallowing the whole business. Ghosts are not the sort of beings his "philosophy" easily takes into account. We know that Horatio is, like Hamlet, a student at the University of Wittenberg, a notable outpost of Protestant humanism. The philosophy he studies there is probably classical—a compound of ethics, logic, and natural science. The emphasis on everyday phenomena pretty much excludes speculation about talking ghosts.

Wittenberg, however, isn't just a place where sober-minded Horatios debate Aristotelian physics. In Christopher Marlowe's play of the late 1580s, Doctor Faustus, it is where the doctor lectures and, on the sideline, fraternizes with demons.

Themes: philosophy, supernatural phenomena

There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, than are dreamt of in your philosophy

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(idea) by Dialogue (6.2 y) (print)     ?   I like it! Thu Aug 24 2000 at 18:48:14

The famous and oh-so-quotable line said by Hamlet to Horatio in Act I, Scene V when Horatio whines about the ghost.

viterbiSearcher, couldn't have said it better myself. Examples of this meaning: The day of the white squirrel, What made you become a geek.  



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The meaning of this quote (as opposed to the context, which is given above) is that often when things seem wrong, confusing or unjust that there is more to a system than meets the eye, levels of truth, meaning and complexity not visible to the casual observer. In the specific case, Horatio who was part of the unfolding plot was unable to see the rationale for the ghosts behavior, which was part of the larger plot.

Answer 2

This phrase was said by Hamlet to Horatio. "There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, than are dreamt of in your philosophy."

To me the phrase means that Horatio's philosophy or beliefs were nothing compared to what was to be learned in his life and death.