Quotes About Philosophy

Will and intellect are one and the same thing.

Non ridere, non lugere, neque detestari, sed intelligere.

I do not know how to teach philosophy without becoming a disturber of established religion.

He who has a true idea simultaneously knows that he has a true idea, and cannot doubt of the truth of the thing perceived.

men, in so far as they live in obedience to reason necessarily do only such things as are necessarily good for human nature, and consequently for each individual man.

Those who are governed by reason desire nothing for themselves which they do not desire for the rest of humankind.

The object of the idea constituting the human mind is the body

The order and connection of ideas in the same as the order and connection of things

The idea, which constitutes the actual being of the human mind, is not simple, but compounded of a great number of ideas.

T]hese instances are enough to show, that the body can by the sole laws of its nature do many things which the mind wonders at.

I realised that all the things which were the source and object of my anxiety held nothing of good or evil in themselves save in so far as the mind was influenced by them,

In a democratic state nobody transfers his natural right to another so completely that thereafter he is not to be consulted; he transfers it to the majority of the entire community of which he is part. In this way all men remain equal, as they were before in a state of nature.

By that which is self-caused , I mean that of which the essence involves existence, or that of which the nature is only conceivable as existent.

The greatest good is the knowledge of the union which the mind has with the whole nature.

Il est contre le bon sens de mettre une enveloppe précieuse à des choses de néant ou de peu de valeur.

Even more, in the created thing, is a perfection that she exists; since the greatest of all imperfections is, not to exist.

In so far as we understand, we can desire nothing but that which must be, nor, in an absolute sense, can we find contentment in anything but truth.

I have laboured carefully, not to mock, lament, or execrate, but to understand human actions.

Falsity consists in the privation of knowledge, which inadequate, fragmentary, or confused ideas involve.

The intellectual love of the mind towards God is that very love of God whereby God loves himself

those who have more often regarded with admiration the stature of men will understand by the word 'man' an animal of upright stature, while those who are wont to regard a different aspect will form a different common image of man, such as that man is a laughing animal, a feather-less biped, or a rational animal.

in the case of the given numbers 1, 2, 3, everybody can see that the fourth proportional is 6, and all the more clearly because we infer in one single intuition the fourth number from the ratio we see the first number bears to the second.

We there showed that the idea of body and body, that is, mind and body (II. xiii.), are one and the same individual conceived now under the attribute of thought, now under the attribute of extension; wherefore the idea of the mind and the mind itself are one and the same thing, which is conceived under one and the same attribute, namely, thought.

2. The essence of things are from all eternity, and unto all eternity shall remain immutable; The existence of God is essence; Therefore...