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4485 Philosopher Quotes

Religion is the recognition of all our duties as divine commands.

Commands Divine Duties Our
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He who is cruel to animals becomes hard also in his dealings with men. We can judge the heart of a man by his treatment of animals.

Also Animals Becomes Cruel
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Ingratitude is the essence of vileness.
Essence Of Vileness Ingratitude
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Even philosophers will praise war as ennobling mankind, forgetting the Greek who said: 'War is bad in that it begets more evil than it kills.'

Bad Begets Even Evil
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Out of timber so crooked as that from which man is made nothing entirely straight can be carved.

Carved Crooked Entirely Made
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All thought must, directly or indirectly, by way of certain characters, relate ultimately to intuitions, and therefore, with us, to sensibility, because in no other way can an object be given to us.

Because Certain Characters Directly
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Seek not the favor of the multitude; it is seldom got by honest and lawful means. But seek the testimony of few; and number not voices, but weigh them.

Favor Few Got Honest
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All the interests of my reason, speculative as well as practical, combine in the three following questions: 1. What can I know? 2. What ought I to do? 3. What may I hope?

Combine Following Hope Interests
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Intuition and concepts constitute... the elements of all our knowledge, so that neither concepts without an intuition in some way corresponding to them, nor intuition without concepts, can yield knowledge.

Concepts Constitute Corresponding Elements
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From such crooked wood as that which man is made of, nothing straight can be fashioned.

Crooked Made Man Nothing
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But although all our knowledge begins with experience, it does not follow that it arises from experience.

Although Arises Begins Does
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Thoughts without content are empty, intuitions without concepts are blind.
Blind Concepts Content Empty
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Two things awe me most, the starry sky above me and the moral law within me.

Above Awe Law Me
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Immaturity is the incapacity to use one's intelligence without the guidance of another.

Another Guidance Immaturity Incapacity
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Morality is not the doctrine of how we may make ourselves happy, but how we may make ourselves worthy of happiness.

Doctrine Happiness Happy How
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It is not God's will merely that we should be happy, but that we should make ourselves happy.

Be Happy God Happy Make
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In law a man is guilty when he violates the rights of others. In ethics he is guilty if he only thinks of doing so.

Doing Ethics Guilty He
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It is not necessary that whilst I live I live happily; but it is necessary that so long as I live I should live honourably.

Happily Live Long Necessary
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May you live your life as if the maxim of your actions were to become universal law.

Actions Become Law Life
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If man makes himself a worm he must not complain when he is trodden on.

Complain He Himself Makes
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Metaphysics is a dark ocean without shores or lighthouse, strewn with many a philosophic wreck.
Dark Lighthouse Many Metaphysics
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Happiness is not an ideal of reason, but of imagination.

Happiness Ideal Imagination Reason
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Few men think; yet all have opinions.

Few men Think Opinions
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If a tree falls in a forest and no one is around to hear it, does it make a sound?
Tress falls Forest Hear Sound
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All the choir of heaven and furniture of earth - in a word, all those bodies which compose the frame of the world - have not any subsistence without a mind.

Choir Heaven Furniture Word
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Truth is the cry of all, but the game of few.

Truth Cry Game
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That thing of hell and eternal punishment is the most absurd, as well as the most disagreeable thought that ever entered into the head of mortal man.

Thing Hell Punishment Absurd
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It is impossible that a man who is false to his friends and neighbours should be true to the public

Impossible Man Friends
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The world is like a board with holes in it, and the square men have got into the round holes, and the round into the square.

The world Board Square
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...we ought to think with the learned, and speak with the vulgar.

We ought Learned Vulgar
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A ray of imagination or of wisdom may enlighten the universe, and glow into remotest centuries.
Ray Imagination Wisdom
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God is a being of transcendent and unlimited perfections: his nature therefore is incomprehensible to finite spirits.

God Transcendent Unlimited perfections
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If we admit a thing so extraordinary as the creation of this world, it should seem that we admit something strange, and odd, and new to human apprehension, beyond any other miracle whatsoever.

Admit Extraordinary Creation World
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Where the people are well educated, the art of piloting a state is best learned from the writings of Plato.

People Educated Piloting
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So long as I confine my thoughts to my own ideas divested of words, I do not see how I can be easily mistaken.

So long Thoughts Divested Words
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From my own being, and from the dependency I find in myself and my ideas, I do, by an act of reason, necessarily infer the existence of a God, and of all created things in the mind of God.

Own Dependency Ideas Reason
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Religion is the centre which unites, and the cement which connects the several parts of members of the political body.

Religion Centre Cement Members
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He who says there is no such thing as an honest man, you may be sure is himself a knave.

Such thing Honest man
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A great artist is always before his time or behind it.

Great artist Time
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Faith goes out through the window when beauty comes in at the door.

Faith Window Beauty Door
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It does not matter how badly you paint so long as you don't paint badly like other people.
Matter Badly Paint People
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All moral laws are merely statements that certain kinds of actions will have good effects.

Moral laws Statements Kind Actions
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The lot of critics is to be remembered by what they failed to understand.

Critics Remembered Failed Understand
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Honesty needs no pains to set itself off.

Honesty Needs Pains
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Beauty has wings, and too hastily flies, and love, unrewarded, soon sickens and dies

Beauty Wings Love
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The senses deceive from time to time, and it is prudent never to trust wholly those who have deceived us even once.
Deceive Deceived Even From Time To Time
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Except our own thoughts, there is nothing absolutely in our power.

Absolutely Except Nothing Our
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If you would be a real seeker after truth, it is necessary that at least once in your life you doubt, as far as possible, all things.

After All Things As Far As Doubt
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Each problem that I solved became a rule, which served afterwards to solve other problems.

Afterwards Became Each Other
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The reading of all good books is like a conversation with the finest minds of past centuries.

Books Centuries Conversation Finest Good
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