philosophy Quotes

No testimony is sufficient to establish a miracle, unless the testimony be of such a kind, that its falsehood would be more miraculous than the fact which it endeavors to establish.

It is a just political maxim, that every man must be supposed a knave.

To hate, to love, to think, to feel, to see; all this is nothing but to perceive.

Nothing is more surprising than the easiness with which the many are governed by the few.

Any person seasoned with a just sense of the imperfections of natural reason, will fly to revealed truth with the greatest avidity.

The life of man is of no greater importance to the universe than that of an oyster.

And what is the greatest number? Number one.

It is seldom that liberty of any kind is lost all at once.

Reason is, and ought only to be the slave of the passions, and can never pretend to any other office than to serve and obey them.

Of all the tyrannies that affect mankind, tyranny in religion is the worst.