Philosophy Quotes

"Humanity is but a step; but what a step it is!"

"I cannot express it; but surely you and everybody have a notion that there is, or should be, an existence of yours beyond you."

"There is no such thing as a good influence. All influence is immoral."

"Good resolutions are useless attempts to interfere with scientific laws."

"I sometimes think that God in creating man somewhat overestimated his ability."

"Conscience and cowardice are really the same things."

"Morality is simply the attitude we adopt towards people we personally dislike."

"Whatever our souls are made of, the soul and body should be both of the same material"

"Some certain significance lurks in all things."

"Aye, aye! And thus the invisible spheres were formed."

"In some certain sense, the whole visible universe is but an illusion."

"Being natural is simply a pose, and the most irritating pose I know."

"The basis of optimism is sheer terror."

"To define is to limit."

"I began to understand that nobility of spirit transcends rank and station."

"Whatever our respective circumstances in life, we are all subject to the same weakness and infirmity of spirit"

"The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it."

"The basis of optimism is sheer terror."

"I define nothing. Nothing will last."

"The true mystery of the world is the visible, not the invisible."

"I like persons better than principles."

"To define is to limit."

"It is the will and not the deed that makes the crime."

"The brotherhood of man is not a mere poet's dream; it is a most depressing and humiliating reality."

"Some certain significance lurks in all things, else all things are little worth."

"The monkey-rope was fast at both ends; truly this double bondage seemed strange."

"Why this striving and this strife of the chase? why weary and palsy oneself on such a pilgrimage?"

"The world was not made for us."

"I am not of the order of Providence."

"I cannot express it; but surely you and everybody have a notion that there is or should be an existence of yours beyond you."