Philosophy Quotes

"The man of learning and letters is more sensible of the strength and weakness of human nature."

"Philosophy is the effort to understand not just the world, but ourselves."

"Our deepest beliefs are often shaped by influences we scarcely recognize."

"Philosophy without action is merely empty contemplation."

"I am, I exist, is necessarily true whenever it is put forward by me or conceived in my mind."

"The mind is eternal insofar as it understands all things with eternal necessity."

"The body and mind are expressions of one and the same substance."

"The mind is eternal to the extent that it comprehends things under the aspect of eternity."

"The paradox of freedom is that we are most free when most determined by our own nature."

"It is not from the benevolence of the butcher, the brewer, or the baker that we expect our dinner, but from their regard to their own interest."

"The human mind naturally abhors the appearance of inconsistency."

"Self-love is the governing principle of every human action."

"Men are naturally inclined to sympathize more readily with the joys and triumphs of the great than with the sorrows of the humble."

"Society naturally divides itself into the wise and the foolish, the virtuous and the vicious, the strong and the weak."

"Leisure is the mother of philosophy."

"The secret thoughts of a man run over all things, holy, profane, clean, obscene, grave, and light."

"A man's actions are determined by his appetites and aversions."

"Every deliberation concerning an action to be done is called counsel."

"Philosophy is the compass of the lost."

"El progreso moral es superior al material."

"Our business here is not to know all things, but those which concern our conduct."

"The actions of men are the best interpreters of their thoughts."

"Absurdities in the foundation will keep a building from rising to any considerable height."

"If we would know our duty, we must know the nature of man."

"The conduct of our lives is the only true mirror of our doctrine."

"To my mind, the most interesting question is always what assumptions people are making."

"Disputes that involve morals are not to be settled by appeals to authority."

"The necessity of purging the mind of prejudice is the foundation of philosophy."

"Custom is the great guide of human life."

"When I enter most intimately into what I call myself, I always stumble on some particular perception."