Philosopher Quotes

Others indeed may talk, and write, and fight about liberty, and make an outward pretence to it; but the free-thinker alone is truly free.
So long as I confine my thoughts to my own ideas divested of words, I do not see how I can be easily mistaken.
That neither our thoughts, nor passions, nor ideas formed by the imagination, exist without the mind, is what every body will allow.
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.
The eye by long use comes to see even in the darkest cavern: and there is no subject so obscure but we may discern some glimpse of truth by long poring on it.
The same principles which at first view lead to skepticism, pursued to a certain point, bring men back to common sense.
Truth is the cry of all, but the game of few.
We have first raised a dust and then complain we cannot see.
A great artist is always before his time or behind it.
A man travels the world in search of what he needs and returns home to find it.
All moral laws are merely statements that certain kinds of actions will have good effects.
Faith goes out through the window when beauty comes in at the door.
It does not matter how badly you paint so long as you don't paint badly like other people.
The hours I spend with you I look upon as sort of a perfumed garden, a dim twilight, and a fountain singing to it. You and you alone make me feel that I am alive. Other men it is said have seen angels, but I have seen thee and thou art enough.
The lot of critics is to be remembered by what they failed to understand.
A "sin" is something which is not necessary.
A man can only attain knowledge with the help of those who possess it. This must be understood from the very beginning. One must learn from him who knows.
A man is never the same for long. He is continually changing. He seldom remains the same even for half an hour.
Laughter relieves us of superfluous energy, which, if it remained unused, might become negative, that is, poison. Laughter is the antidote.
Religion is doing; a man does not merely think his religion or feel it, he lives his religion as much as he is able, otherwise it is not religion but fantasy or philosophy.
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