philosophy Quotes

Hegel was right when he said that we learn from history that man can never learn anything from history.

The fact that a believer is happier than a skeptic is no more to the point than the fact that a drunken man is happier than a sober one.

Cruelty would be delicious if one could only find some sort of cruelty that didn't really hurt.

The unexamined life is not worth living.

Perfect behavior is born of complete indifference.

Philosophy finds it an easy matter to vanquish past and future evils, but the present are commonly too hard for it.

To be is to do.

Metaphysics is a dark ocean without shores or lighthouse, strewn with many a philosophic wreck.

All our knowledge begins with the senses, proceeds then to the understanding, and ends with reason. There is nothing higher than reason.

The virtues and vices are all put in motion by interest.