Philosopher Quotes

You will never be happy if you continue to search for what happiness consists of. You will never live if you are looking for the meaning of life.

Don't walk behind me; I may not lead. Don't walk in front of me; I may not follow. Just walk beside me and be my friend.

The world is a living image of God.

There is not less wit nor less invention in applying rightly a thought one finds in a book, than in being the first author of that thought.

There is no less invention in aptly applying a thought found in a book, than in being the first author of the thought.

The antiquity and general acceptance of an opinion is not assurance of its truth.

Properly speaking, history is nothing but the crimes and misfortunes of the human race.

It is pure illusion to think that an opinion that passes down from century to century, from generation to generation, may not be entirely false.

I know too much to be a sceptic and too little to be a dogmatist.

I am a good Protestant, and in the full sense of the term, for from the bottom of my soul, I protest against everything that is said, and everything that is done.

It is thus tolerance that is the source of peace, and intolerance that is the source of disorder and squabbling.

Heredity provides for the modification of its own machinery.

Instinct is untaught ability.

Evil is the moment when I lack the strength to be true to the Good that compels me.

Evil is the interruption of a truth by the pressure of particular or individual interests.

Liberal capitalism is not at all the Good of humanity. Quite the contrary; it is the vehicle of savage, destructive nihilism.

A Truth is the subjective development of that which is at once both new and universal. New: that which is unforeseen by the order of creation. Universal: that which can interest, rightly, every human individual, according to his pure humanity.

The strongest arguments prove nothing so long as the conclusions are not verified by experience. Experimental science is the queen of sciences and the goal of all speculation.

For the things of this world cannot be made known without a knowledge of mathematics.

For if any man who never saw fire proved by satisfactory arguments that fire burns. His hearer's mind would never be satisfied, nor would he avoid the fire until he put his hand in it that he might learn by experiment what argument taught.

Argument is conclusive, but it does not remove doubt, so that the mind may rest in the sure knowledge of the truth, unless it finds it by the method of experiment.

Reasoning draws a conclusion, but does not make the conclusion certain, unless the mind discovers it by the path of experience.

All science requires mathematics. The knowledge of mathematical things is almost innate in us. This is the easiest of sciences, a fact which is obvious in that no one's brain rejects it; for laymen and people who are utterly illiterate know how to count and reckon.

Who questions much, shall learn much, and retain much.

Money is like manure, of very little use except it be spread.

Beauty itself is but the sensible image of the Infinite.

Revenge is a kind of wild justice, which the more a man's nature runs to, the more ought law to weed it out.

The job of the artist is always to deepen the mystery.

Anger makes dull men witty, but it keeps them poor.

If we do not maintain justice, justice will not maintain us.