philosophy Quotes

Hope is a good breakfast, but it is a bad supper.

Science is but an image of the truth.

Truth is so hard to tell, it sometimes needs fiction to make it plausible.

Judges ought to be more leaned than witty, more reverent than plausible, and more advised than confident. Above all things, integrity is their portion and proper virtue.

Small amounts of philosophy lead to atheism, but larger amounts bring us back to God.

But men must know, that in this theatre of man's life it is reserved only for God and angels to be lookers on.

What is truth? said jesting Pilate; and would not stay for an answer.

The way of fortune is like the milkyway in the sky; which is a number of small stars, not seen asunder, but giving light together: so it is a number of little and scarce discerned virtues, or rather faculties and customs, that make men fortunate.

Truth is the daughter of time, not of authority.

We are much beholden to Machiavel and others, that write what men do, and not what they ought to do.