Philosophy Quotes

"Science explores the how; philosophy explores the why."

"If the human being is the microcosm, then the universe is the macrocosm reflected in the soul."

"The body is the prison and the palace of the soul."

"The universe speaks to those who listen with their minds."

"The mind is a kingdom; rule it well."

"The heart speaks in the language of feeling; the mind in the language of reason."

"The state of nature has a law of nature to govern it, which obliges every one: and reason, which is that law, teaches all mankind, who will but consult it."

"Our business here is not to know all things, but those which concern our conduct."

"The study of philosophy teaches a man to think, not what to think."

"Words are mere vessels; meaning resides in the mind of the speaker and hearer."

"Custom is the great guide of human life."

"Ambition, avarice, self-love are passions inherent in human nature."

"There is no vice, that is not sometimes a virtue; no virtue that is not sometimes a vice."

"The human mind is a sort of theatre, where several perceptions successively make their appearance."

"To a man of the least philosophical turn, there occurs a thousand difficulties with respect to the subject of causation."

"I have written on several subjects, but none of them are so much the objects of my attention as that of morals."

"The corruption of the best is the worst."

"In every system of morality which I have hitherto met with, I have always remarked that the author proceeds for some time in the ordinary ways of reasoning."

"Enthusiasm is the malady of philosophers."

"A man may promise upon honor to do a thing impossible."

"The virtuous and vicious dispositions of the mind do not follow the same laws as the external appearance."

"A man who has once been seduced by the jargon of the schools is never afterwards cured of it."

"Morals and natural philosophy have indeed an intimate connection together."

"Extreme skepticism is as dangerous as extreme credulity."

"The sceptical doubts about sensory experience are not to be removed by argument alone."

"Reason alone can never give rise to any original active force."

"Every art and every inquiry, and similarly every action as well as purpose, may be said to aim at some good."

"The mind is of a kind that cannot exist alone, apart from the world."

"The ordinary commerce of life gives us occasion to adopt the notion of identity and continuance."

"We must distinguish between philosophical and popular senses of justice."