philosophy Quotes

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.

The Old Testament God is a person with body parts and passions. The Church of England God has neither body, parts nor passions, and is therefore not a person.

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

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.

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

It is beyond a doubt that all our knowledge begins with experience.

To be is to do.

What can I know? What ought I to do? What can I hope?

Intuition and concepts constitute... the elements of all our knowledge, so that neither concepts without an intuition in some way corresponding to them, nor intuition without concepts, can yield knowledge.