Philosophy Quotes

"The task of philosophy is to comprehend what is"

"The world develops through contradiction and resolution"

"The universal and the particular are inseparable"

"The world is the objectification of the Absolute"

"The individual is both finite and infinite"

"The paradox of consciousness is that it both creates and reflects reality"

"The particular and universal must be reconciled"

"The great end of men's actions is some good."

"Good and evil are nothing but pleasure and pain."

"The mind is, as it were, a blank canvas, and the senses paint upon it."

"The most necessary science to know is the science of knowing how to live."

"The mind of man is the measure of all things."

"Leisure is the mother of philosophy."

"Man is wolf to man."

"A person is a man considered as a word or sound carrying meaning."

"The mind of a man is a mirror of the world."

"The universe is all that exists, and exists eternally."

"The universe is body; that which is not body is nothing."

"The human mind is the most complex thing we know."

"The mind is a kind of theatre where perceptions make their appearance"

"Human nature is the subject matter of all science"

"The most lively thought is still inferior to the dullest sensation"

"Reason is and ought to be the slave of the passions"

"Be a philosopher in your conduct, though not in your appearance"

"The three philosophical relations are resemblance, contrariety, and degree of quality"

"Philosophy would render us entirely Pyrrhonian were not nature too strong for it"

"The impressions of the senses are vivid and lively"

"I do therefore invade the province of the grammarian but as a philosopher"

"Wonder and astonishment are the parents of philosophy"

"If we take in our hand any volume on metaphysics, let us ask, Does it contain any abstract reasoning concerning quantity or number? No. Does it contain any experimental reasoning concerning matter of fact and existence? No. Commit it then to the flames"