Philosopher Quotes

Childhood is the sleep of reason.
Do I dare set forth here the most important, the most useful rule of all education? It is not to save time, but to squander it.
Every man has a right to risk his own life for the preservation of it.
Every man has the right to risk his own life in order to preserve it. Has it ever been said that a man who throws himself out the window to escape from a fire is guilty of suicide?
Falsehood has an infinity of combinations, but truth has only one mode of being.
Fame is but the breath of people, and that often unwholesome.
Force does not constitute right... obedience is due only to legitimate powers.
Free people, remember this maxim: we may acquire liberty, but it is never recovered if it is once lost.
God made me and broke the mold.
Gratitude is a duty which ought to be paid, but which none have a right to expect.
Happiness: a good bank account, a good cook, and a good digestion.
Heroes are not known by the loftiness of their carriage; the greatest braggarts are generally the merest cowards.
How many famous and high-spirited heroes have lived a day too long?
However great a man's natural talent may be, the act of writing cannot be learned all at once.
I hate books; they only teach us to talk about things we know nothing about.
I have always said and felt that true enjoyment can not be described.
I have resolved on an enterprise that has no precedent and will have no imitator. I want to set before my fellow human beings a man in every way true to nature; and that man will be myself.
I long remained a child, and I am still one in many respects.
I may be no better, but at least I am different.
I only see clearly what I remember.
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