philosophy Quotes

Nothing is so fatal to religion as indifference.

Superstition is the religion of feeble minds.

Religion is essentially the art and the theory of the remaking of man. Man is not a finished creation.

But what is liberty without wisdom, and without virtue? It is the greatest of all possible evils; for it is folly, vice, and madness, without tuition or restraint.

Magnanimity in politics is not seldom the truest wisdom; and a great empire and little minds go ill together.

We must all obey the great law of change. It is the most powerful law of nature.

Poetry is the art of substantiating shadows, and of lending existence to nothing.

The greater the power, the more dangerous the abuse.

If you can be well without health, you may be happy without virtue.

What ever disunites man from God, also disunites man from man.