philosophy Quotes

I have discovered that all human evil comes from this, man's being unable to sit still in a room.

We sail within a vast sphere, ever drifting in uncertainty, driven from end to end.

Evil is easy, and has infinite forms.

All of our reasoning ends in surrender to feeling.

Justice is what is established; and thus all our established laws will necessarily be regarded as just without examination, since they are established.

That we must love one God only is a thing so evident that it does not require miracles to prove it.

It is incomprehensible that God should exist, and it is incomprehensible that he should not exist.

If you gain, you gain all. If you lose, you lose nothing. Wager then, without hesitation, that He exists.

Nothing fortifies scepticism more than the fact that there are some who are not sceptics; if all were so, they would be wrong.

Man is but a reed, the most feeble thing in nature, but he is a thinking reed.