Philosophy Quotes

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

"Man is a self-interested creature; this is the foundation of all morality."

"Pleasure and pain are the only things that matter in ethics."

"Utilitarianism demands that we act always to produce the most good for the most people."

"All rational action is based on the desire to maximize pleasure and minimize pain."

"To act morally is to act in accordance with the greatest happiness principle."

"The measure of all things is their capacity to produce or prevent pleasure and pain."

"Nothing is good or bad except insofar as it produces happiness or misery."

"To understand human behavior, one must understand the pursuit of pleasure and avoidance of pain."

"Selfishness becomes virtue when directed toward the happiness of all, not just oneself."

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

"The purpose of philosophy is not merely to interpret the world, but to transform it."

"Consciousness is determined by conditions of life, not the reverse."

"Every form of society has been just as necessary as every natural species."

"Contradiction is at the heart of all things."

"Economic systems shape consciousness, not the reverse."

"The individual is a product of society, yet society is shaped by individuals."

"Human nature is not fixed but shaped by historical circumstances."

"Two things awe me most: the starry sky above and the moral law within."

"A categorical imperative would be a proposition which represented an action as necessary."

"Philosophy is the love of wisdom."

"The owl of Minerva spreads its wings only with the falling of the dusk."

"What is rational is actual and what is actual is rational."

"The true is the whole."

"Spirit is the self-referential and self-generative ground of reality."

"The particular is real, but it is real only insofar as it participates in the universal."

"The abstract is the product of concrete analysis."

"Reason is substance as well as infinite power."

"The master-slave dialectic defines consciousness."

"Language is the repository of national spirit."