Philosophy Quotes

"The passion for enquiry, the study of human nature, " "Accuracy is, indeed, the sister of truth, and is ever " "Every wise, just, and fortunate man that ever existed owed his greatness, in the first place, to the universal favor of fortune; and in the second, to his own peculiar diligence and virtue" "Virtue is more to be feared than vice, because its excesses are not subject to the regulation of conscience" "Of all the things which are no longer what they seem" "He who hurries through life hurries to his grave" "Love is sweet, dearest Ned, but it cannot change a man's nature" "People die all the time. Life is a lot more fragile than we think." "It's like Tolstoy said. Happiness is an allegory, unhappiness a story." "No one ever expects science to solve the problem of life completely." "The greatest and most important problems of life are fundamentally unsolvable. They can never be solved but only outgrown." "The way to see by Faith is to shut the eye of Reason " "Contentment makes poor men rich; discontentment makes ric " "A certain type of perfection can only be realized through a limitless accumulation of the imperfect" "Life is not like water. Things in life don’t necessarily flow over the shortest possible route" "The greatest educators have known that we need an open mind, but we also need a disciplined mind." "The death of dogma is the birth of morality" "Morality is not the doctrine of how we may make ourselves happy, but how we may make ourselves worthy of happiness" "Act only according to that maxim whereby you can at the same time will that it should become a universal law" "To be is to do"