philosophy Quotes

The corruption of the best things gives rise to the worst.

Men often act knowingly against their interest.

Scholastic learning and polemical divinity retarded the growth of all true knowledge.

Heaven and hell suppose two distinct species of men, the good and the bad. But the greatest part of mankind float betwixt vice and virtue.

Every wise, just, and mild government, by rendering the condition of its subjects easy and secure, will always abound most in people, as well as in commodities and riches.

The heights of popularity and patriotism are still the beaten road to power and tyranny.

No advantages in this world are pure and unmixed.

That the sun will not rise tomorrow is no less intelligible a proposition, and implies no more contradiction, than the affirmation, that it will rise.

What a peculiar privilege has this little agitation of the brain which we call 'thought'.

The law always limits every power it gives.