Philosopher Quotes

Mark this well, you proud men of action! you are, after all, nothing but unconscious instruments of the men of thought.
Mere goodness can achieve little against the power of nature.
Nothing great in the world has ever been accomplished without passion.
Once the state has been founded, there can no longer be any heroes. They come on the scene only in uncivilized conditions.
The Few assume to be the deputies, but they are often only the despoilers of the Many.
The history of the world is none other than the progress of the consciousness of freedom.
The learner always begins by finding fault, but the scholar sees the positive merit in everything.
To him who looks upon the world rationally, the world in its turn presents a rational aspect. The relation is mutual.
Too fair to worship, too divine to love.
Truth in philosophy means that concept and external reality correspond.
We do not need to be shoemakers to know if our shoes fit, and just as little have we any need to be professionals to acquire knowledge of matters of universal interest.
When liberty is mentioned, we must always be careful to observe whether it is not really the assertion of private interests which is thereby designated.
World history is a court of judgment.
A mind at liberty to reflect on its own observations, if it produce nothing useful to the world, seldom fails of entertainment to itself.
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.
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.
He who says there is no such thing as an honest man, you may be sure is himself a knave.
I had rather be an oyster than a man, the most stupid and senseless of animals.
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.
Many things, for aught I know, may exist, whereof neither I nor any other man hath or can have any idea or notion whatsoever.
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