Philosophy Quotes

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

"A man may fish with the worm that hath eat of a king, and eat of the fish that hath fed upon that worm."

"There are some certain things that cast shadows back; that is, give out a shadow from an object whose back is to the sun."

"I think... that if vice and goodness are only a matter of circumstance, then there are no sins"

"Hypocrisy is the tribute which vice pays to virtue"

"Facts are the enemy of truth."

"The greatest pleasure of a man of sense is to act from the dictates of reason."

"The mind is the man; the body is merely its house."

"The diversity of the world is due to the diversity of desires."

"Do you believe in fate?"

"Circumstances change, but principles remain the same."

"The soul knows no boundaries."

"Wherever there is beauty, there is ugliness; wherever there is truth, there is falsehood"

"There is, I believe, in every disposition a tendency to some particular evil."

"The child of godly parents must needs grow up sin-stricken?"

"I simply cannot bring myself to believe in the extraordinary faculties of certain individuals."

"What is to be done?"

"We all have demons within us."

"Doubt is the torture of the intelligent."

"Life demands more than logic."

"The presence of the contradiction did not trouble him."

"In every person there exists a capacity for both good and evil."

"We are not masters of our fate, but servants of it."

"Every man is as heaven made him, and sometimes a great deal worse."

"Every man carries a kingdom within himself."

"I am a sick man... I am a spiteful man"

"The extraordinary man has the right to commit crime"

"A man's life is meaningless unless he serves something greater than himself."

"Life's purpose is not to achieve happiness but to fulfill duty."

"I am the night. But there is something I must say to the light. I exist too."