philosophy Quotes

We cannot command Nature except by obeying her.

Nature, to be commanded, must be obeyed.

God has placed no limits to the exercise of the intellect he has given us, on this side of the grave.

The desire of excessive power caused the angels to fall; the desire of knowledge caused men to fall.

The best part of beauty is that which no picture can express.

There is no excellent beauty that hath not some strangeness in the proportion.

Beauty itself is but the sensible image of the Infinite.

The worst men often give the best advice.

The momentous thing in human life is the art of winning the soul to good or evil.

I do not believe that any man fears to be dead, but only the stroke of death.