philosophy Quotes

To believe in God is impossible not to believe in Him is absurd.

All men are born with a nose and five fingers, but no one is born with a knowledge of God.

Satire lies about literary men while they live and eulogy lies about them when they die.

If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent Him.

History should be written as philosophy.

Doubt is not a pleasant condition, but certainty is absurd.

What then do you call your soul? What idea have you of it? You cannot of yourselves, without revelation, admit the existence within you of anything but a power unknown to you of feeling and thinking.

When he to whom one speaks does not understand, and he who speaks himself does not understand, that is metaphysics.

The world embarrasses me, and I cannot dream that this watch exists and has no watchmaker.

Illusion is the first of all pleasures.