Philosophy Quotes

"Character is destiny."

"From every human being there radiates something like a moral effluvium."

"The errors of great men are venerable because they are more fruitful than the truths of little men."

"There is strong shadow where there is much light."

"If you want to know yourself, observe how others react to you."

"Philosophy is the pursuit of wisdom through reason."

"Philosophy begins with wonder and ends in wisdom."

"Custom and prejudice have governed mankind more than reason and philosophy."

"Philosophy examines the fundamental questions of human existence."

"Philosophy teaches us to question everything, including itself."

"The unexamined life is not worth living."

"What we call fate does not come into the world from without, into his life; it emerges from within him."

"The height of culture is when we cease to talk about moods and to act from them."

"When humanity is truly ennobled, the intellect rises with it."

"The mind creates the world through perception and thought."

"All the choir of heaven and furniture of earth have not any subsistence without a mind."

"That the things I see are my own ideas, and that no unthinking being can exist without a perceiving being."

"The mind, spirit, or soul is that simple undivided active being, as it is very well known."

"That which exists in itself we may call substance; that which exists in thought may be called idea."

"The doctrine of matter or corporeal substance has taken so deep a root in the minds of philosophers."

"The real essence of all corporeality must be a spirit."

"It is not possible for colour to exist where nothing is extended."

"The mind which alone can give ideas being the seat of all reality."

"The whole scene of sensible things is but a phantom that cannot subsist independently."

"All natural things depend upon a spirit or mind for their existence."

"The most material error is the thinking that things have an absolute existence without the mind."

"To abstract is to separate in the mind what is necessarily united in nature."

"Every idea in the mind corresponds to an object outside the mind, if that object exists."

"The advancement of real knowledge is the sole object of philosophy."

"The ideas which we perceive are not the real things themselves."