Philosophy Quotes

"It is not contrary to reason to prefer the destruction of the whole world to the scratching of my finger."

"There is no reasoning without a process, and no process without a mind."

"Contrivance, design, and final causes are now almost universally exploded."

"To be a philosophical sceptic is to be a true philosopher."

"La inteligencia sin compasión es crueldad."

"El que vive sin principios muere sin memoria."

"Leisure is the mother of philosophy."

"The mind is its own place and can make a heaven of hell or a hell of heaven."

"Vainglory is the passion which makes men believe themselves better than they are."

"The life of contemplation is the highest form of human existence."

"In the clash between faith and reason, truth often lies hidden."

"The mind without the body is like a king without subjects."

"The universe operates according to cause and effect, not divine will."

"The mind that accepts every belief is the mind that believes nothing truly."

"I have made a ceaseless effort not to ridicule, not to bewail, nor to scorn human actions, but to understand them."

"Eternity is not conceived as a result of time or as having anything to do with time."

"The Mind and Body are one and the same thing which is considered now under the attribute of thought, now under the attribute of extension."

"The mind and body are not two substances but one substance viewed from different angles."

"The moral law is written in the hearts of men."

"The voice of conscience must guide our actions."

"The regard which the proud man is disposed to pay to the opinions and feelings of others, is in consequence of his regard for his own."

"Revenge is certainly natural to mankind, but it is not originally pointed out to us by the real situation of our circumstances."

"The theory of moral sentiments is not a system of arbitrary rules but a science of human sympathy."

"Every man naturally loves what bears resemblance to his own character; his own sentiments and qualities are always pleasing to him."

"There is something flattering in the notion that I myself am of some importance; the opinion of others becomes, therefore, important to me, so far as it affects this importance."

"When we approve of any character or action, the sentiments which we approve of are, in the instant of approbation, the same as those of the character or action approved of."

"The theory that our sentiments are all derived from sympathy must necessarily be imperfect."

"Not all philosophers are obliged to live like philosophers."

"The sentiment of esteem is derived from the apprehension of utility and the sense of dignity united."

"The man who is too much in the clouds is often useless to those on earth."