Philosophy Quotes

"There is a wide gulf between the ambitious man and the prudent statesman."

"The human condition demands both law and compassion."

"The art of living is the art of understanding others."

"The human heart is capable of both infinite kindness and infinite cruelty."

"Authority without wisdom is tyranny in disguise."

"A man who never doubts is a fool who has never truly thought."

"In every man lies both the capacity for greatness and for ruin."

"The true aristocracy is not of birth, but of character."

"One must never underestimate the importance of proper etiquette in maintaining social order."

"The British character is forged through dedication to duty and honor."

"I believe in the natural order of things."

"The light of reason must guide all actions."

"A man must live according to his principles."

"I believe that every person has a purpose."

"Philosophy is the love of wisdom."

"Men are moved by two levers only: fear and self-interest."

"The mind is everything. What you think you become."

"The frontier between hell and heaven is only the difference between two ways of looking at things."

"To live is to suffer, but to survive, well, that's to find some meaning in the suffering."

"What is the world at its best but a kind of eccentric orderliness?"

"The pillars of a great state are the morality and wisdom of its people."

"All the evils of civilization spring from the failure of the individual to realize his own potential."

"To live is to think."

"The habit of analysis has a tendency to wear away the feelings."

"The two great sources of all the errors in philosophy are these two habits of the mind."

"The morality of an action depends upon the motive from which we act."

"Everything is governed by causes and effects."

"A sound argument preserves the logical form through any substitution of its variables."

"Among all the kinds of qualities that men exhibit, none is more marked than their reluctance to acknowledge ideas that did not originate with themselves."

"Philosophy without practice is merely empty words."