Philosopher Quotes

I undertake the same project as Montaigne, but with an aim contrary to his own: for he wrote his Essays only for others, and I write my reveries only for myself.
Insults are the arguments employed by those who are in the wrong.
It is a mania shared by philosophers of all ages to deny what exists and to explain what does not exist.
It is too difficult to think nobly when one thinks only of earning a living.
It is unnatural for a majority to rule, for a majority can seldom be organized and united for specific action, and a minority can.
Man is born free and everywhere he is in chains.
Man was born free, and he is everywhere in chains.
Money is the seed of money, and the first guinea is sometimes more difficult to acquire than the second million.
Most nations, as well as people are impossible only in their youth; they become incorrigible as they grow older.
Nature never deceives us; it is we who deceive ourselves.
No man has any natural authority over his fellow men.
No true believer could be intolerant or a persecutor. If I were a magistrate and the law carried the death penalty against atheists, I would begin by sending to the stake whoever denounced another.
O love, if I regret the age when one savors you, it is not for the hour of pleasure, but for the one that follows it.
Ordinary readers, forgive my paradoxes: one must make them when one reflects; and whatever you may say, I prefer being a man with paradoxes than a man with prejudices.
Our affections as well as our bodies are in perpetual flux.
Our greatest evils flow from ourselves.
Our will is always for our own good, but we do not always see what that is.
Patience is bitter, but its fruit is sweet.
People who know little are usually great talkers, while men who know much say little.
Plant and your spouse plants with you; weed and you weed alone.
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