philosophy Quotes

There is more difference in the quality of our pleasures than in the amount.

The method of nature: who could ever analyze it?

I like the silent church before the service begins, better than any preaching.

Great men are they who see that spiritual is stronger than any material force - that thoughts rule the world.

If the stars should appear but one night every thousand years how man would marvel and stare.

Every fact is related on one side to sensation, and, on the other, to morals. The game of thought is, on the appearance of one of these two sides, to find the other: given the upper, to find the under side.

We are born believing. A man bears beliefs as a tree bears apples.

Character is always known. Thefts never enrich; alms never impoverish; murder will speak out of stone walls.

A man is a method, a progressive arrangement; a selecting principle, gathering his like to him; wherever he goes.

If the tongue had not been framed for articulation, man would still be a beast in the forest.