philosophy Quotes

The present will not long endure.

Seek not, my soul, the life of the immortals; but enjoy to the full the resources that are within thy reach.

Whatever is beautiful is beautiful by necessity.

Belief is nothing but a more vivid, lively, forcible, firm, steady conception of an object, than what the imagination alone is ever able to attain.

The Christian religion not only was at first attended with miracles, but even at this day cannot be believed by any reasonable person without one.

Generally speaking, the errors in religion are dangerous; those in philosophy only ridiculous.

Human Nature is the only science of man; and yet has been hitherto the most neglected.

Philosophy would render us entirely Pyrrhonian, were not nature too strong for it.

Beauty, whether moral or natural, is felt, more properly than perceived.

Accuracy is, in every case, advantageous to beauty, and just reasoning to delicate sentiment. In vain would we exalt the one by depreciating the other.