Philosophy Quotes

"Two things awe me most: the starry sky above and the moral law within."

"A categorical imperative would be a proposition which represented an action as objectively necessary."

"The existence of God cannot be proven rationally."

"Noumena are things as they exist in themselves, apart from our perception."

"To criticize reason itself is to use reason—a logical contradiction."

"Reason is the highest human faculty."

"The limits of my language are the limits of my world."

"A rational being exists as an end in himself."

"The human being is a microcosm of the universe."

"The practical problems of ethics cannot be divorced from metaphysics."

"The evil in human nature comes from our tendency to prioritize self-interest."

"The human being is the only creature capable of moral accountability."

"What we take to be objective truth is structured by our minds."

"The noumenal world is forever beyond the reach of human knowledge."

"The categories of the mind are the conditions of all experience."

"The purpose of philosophy is to answer the question: What can I know?"

"The social contract emerges not from actual agreement, but from what rational people would agree to under fair conditions."

"The original position is a device of representation for characterizing the content of justice."

"The right is prior to the good; principles of justice do not depend on any particular conception of human flourishing."

"Perfectionism—the view that the state should promote particular conceptions of excellence—is incompatible with justice as fairness."

"The veil of ignorance eliminates knowledge that would bias choices toward one's own advantage."

"The propensity to truck, barter and exchange one thing for another is common to all men."

"Nobody ever saw a dog make a fair and deliberate exchange of one bone for another with another dog."

"What is rational is actual and what is actual is rational."

"The world is a manifestation of mind, not mind a manifestation of the world."

"Existence precedes essence, and essence unfolds through becoming."

"Philosophy is the comprehension of reality as a rational whole."

"The more we understand individual things, the more we understand God."

"God is infinite substance consisting of infinite attributes."

"The mind is composed of ideas that represent the body's conditions."