Philosophy Quotes

"The invisible hand is more real than most visible hands."

"Nature has placed mankind under two sovereign masters, pleasure and pain."

"In every human breast, self-interest is the predominant principle."

"The principle of utility is the foundation of the ethical system."

"Motive seems to be a thinking faculty."

"The more strictly we are watched, the better we behave."

"Self-preference is the foundation of all virtue."

"To judge the real tendency of an action, it must be considered as it will affect the whole community."

"Duty is but a word; utility is everything."

"Philosophy is the love of wisdom."

"The attempt to make heaven on earth produces hell."

"The paradox is only a conflict between reality and your feeling of what reality ought to be."

"We cannot live without myths, but we can live critically with them."

"The philosophical question is not what we know, but how we know it."

"I am the place in which something has occurred."

"Language is not merely a tool; it shapes how we think about reality."

"We are all trapped in our own cultural perspectives."

"The self is not a fixed entity but a continuous becoming."

"The structure of language shapes the structure of thought."

"Every society must answer the same fundamental questions."

"The principle of universality requires that we judge ourselves by the same standards we judge others."

"Our actions have moral weight regardless of our intentions."

"We are all capable of both moral clarity and terrible justifications."

"Intellectual honesty requires acknowledging our complicity in injustice."

"We must distinguish between what is and what might be."

"Laws are the conditions under which men, naturally independent, unite to form society."

"The best laws are those that are least needed."

"We are all infected with monstrous absurdities."

"Practical men, who believe themselves to be quite exempt from any intellectual influence, are usually the slaves of some defunct economist."

"A monetary economy is unstable, and the attempt to stabilize it is foredoomed to failure."