Philosopher Quotes

It is vain to talk of the interest of the community, without understanding what is the interest of the individual.
Lawyers are the only persons in whom ignorance of the law is not punished.
No power of government ought to be employed in the endeavor to establish any system or article of belief on the subject of religion.
Secrecy, being an instrument of conspiracy, ought never to be the system of a regular government.
Stretching his hand up to reach the stars, too often man forgets the flowers at his feet.
The age we live in is a busy age; in which knowledge is rapidly advancing towards perfection.
The greatest happiness of the greatest number is the foundation of morals and legislation.
The power of the lawyer is in the uncertainty of the law.
The principle of asceticism never was, nor ever can be, consistently pursued by any living creature. Let but one tenth part of the inhabitants of the earth pursue it consistently, and in a day's time they will have turned it into a Hell.
The question is not, "Can they reason?" nor, "Can they talk?" but rather, "Can they suffer?"
The said truth is that it is the greatest happiness of the greatest number that is the measure of right and wrong.
Tyranny and anarchy are never far apart.
A consistent thinker is a thoughtless person, because he conforms to a pattern; he repeats phrases and thinks in a groove.
A man who is not afraid is not aggressive, a man who has no sense of fear of any kind is really a free, a peaceful man.
All ideologies are idiotic, whether religious or political, for it is conceptual thinking, the conceptual word, which has so unfortunately divided man.
Freedom from the desire for an answer is essential to the understanding of a problem.
Hitler and Mussolini were only the primary spokesmen for the attitude of domination and craving for power that are in the heart of almost everyone. Until the source is cleared, there will always be confusion and hate, wars and class antagonisms.
I maintain that Truth is a pathless land, and you cannot approach it by any path whatsoever, by any religion, by any sect.
If we can really understand the problem, the answer will come out of it, because the answer is not separate from the problem.
In oneself lies the whole world and if you know how to look and learn, the door is there and the key is in your hand. Nobody on earth can give you either the key or the door to open, except yourself.
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