Philosopher Quotes

When the oak is felled the whole forest echoes with it fall, but a hundred acorns are sown in silence by an unnoticed breeze.
Woe to him that claims obedience when it is not due; woe to him that refuses it when it is.
Wonder is the basis of worship.
Wondrous is the strength of cheerfulness, and its power of endurance - the cheerful man will do more in the same time, will do it; better, will preserve it longer, than the sad or sullen.
Work alone is noble.
Worship is transcendent wonder.
Writing is a dreadful labor, yet not so dreadful as Idleness.
Youth is to all the glad season of life; but often only by what it hopes, not by what it attains, or what it escapes.
A man cannot lay down the right of resisting them that assault him by force, to take away his life.
A man's conscience and his judgment is the same thing; and as the judgment, so also the conscience, may be erroneous.
A wise man should so write (though in words understood by all men) that wise men only should be able to commend him.
All generous minds have a horror of what are commonly called "Facts". They are the brute beasts of the intellectual domain.
Curiosity is the lust of the mind.
During the time men live without a common power to keep them all in awe, they are in that conditions called war; and such a war, as if of every man, against every man.
Fear of things invisible in the natural seed of that which everyone in himself calleth religion.
Force and fraud are in war the two cardinal virtues.
He that is taken and put into prison or chains is not conquered, though overcome; for he is still an enemy.
I am about to take my last voyage, a great leap in the dark.
I put for the general inclination of all mankind, a perpetual and restless desire of power after power, that ceaseth only in death.
In the state of nature profit is the measure of right.
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