Philosophy Quotes

"Obedience to the moral law is not optional but imperative."

"All things evolve from lower to higher forms of organization."

"Selfishness is the basis of social order."

"Moral progress is the development from external regulation to internal self-governance."

"The task of the modern age is the conversion of theology into anthropology."

"What was previously imaginary becomes real through philosophy."

"Man himself is God to man."

"Philosophy must begin with consciousness, not with being."

"To deny God is to affirm man."

"The secret of theology is anthropology."

"Human nature is the true god of humanity."

"The idea of God is the idea of the human species."

"Man creates God in his own image."

"The purpose of philosophy is to make the divine human."

"The infinite is contained within the finite human heart."

"The sacred lies in the ordinary, in the human and natural world."

"The principle of utility is the foundation of the Hedonic Calculus."

"The principle of utility recognizes this subjection and makes it the foundation of its ethics."

"The utile is the good, and the good is the utile."

"The world is full of suffering; the question is how to minimize it."

"The philosophers have only interpreted the world in various ways; the point is to change it."

"The mode of production of material life determines the social, political and intellectual life processes."

"The individual is nothing but a particular expression of the general."

"Consciousness does not determine life; life determines consciousness."

"The system of private property corrupts human nature."

"To be radical is to go to the root; and the root for man is man himself."

"The human essence is no abstraction inherent in each single individual."

"Economic relations form the basis of all social structures."

"The dead govern the living more than we acknowledge."

"Philosophy separates justified belief from mere opinion."