Quotes About Philosophy

...the infallible man does not exist.

The greatest part of what we say and do is really unnecessary. If a man takes this to heart, he will have more leisure and less uneasiness.

Though you break your heart, men will go on as before.

Once you have done a man a service, what more reward would you have? Is it not enough to have obeyed the laws of your own nature, without expecting to be paid for it?

It is necessary for men to be deceived in religion.

The ultimate triumph of philosophy would be to cast light upon the mysterious ways in which Providence moves to achieve the designs it has for man.

The Insignificance of Man is a congenial theme; my own insignificance is a sore point.

Men are tormented by the opinions they have of things, and not the things themselves.

Sorrow was made for man, not for beasts; yet if men encourage melancholy too much, they become no better than beasts.

If God is, man is a slave; now, man can and must be free; then, God does not exist. I defy anyone whomsoever to avoid this circle; now, therefore, let all choose.

Although I am a pious man, I am not the less a man.

A man cannot become an atheist merely by wishing it.

At the sight of what goes on in the world, the most misanthropic of men must end by being amused, and Heraclitus must die laughing.

He gave man speech, and speech created thought, Which is the measure of the universe.

We are things of a day. What are we? What are we not? The shadow of a dream is man, no more.

No trace of slavery ought to mix with the studies of the freeborn man. No study, pursued under compulsion, remains rooted in the memory.

I wonder who it was defined man as a rational animal. It was the most premature definition ever given. Man is many things, but he is not rational.

Man is a rational animal who always loses his temper when he is called upon to act in accordance with the dictates of reason.

I have only one doctrine, the infinitude of the private man.

One definition of man is an intelligence served by organs.

ACT as men of thought; THINK as men of action.

If it is reason that forms man then it is the emotions that guide her.

There is more religion in men's science, than there is science in their religion.

The gods do not deduct from man's allotted span the hours spent in fishing.