Philosopher Quotes

The way we make sense of a realistic text is through the same broad ideological frame as the way we make sense of our social experience or rather, the way we are made sense of by the discourses of our culture.
We now witness the constructive work on a foundation that will endure through the ages. That foundation is the god of science - revealed to us in terms that will harmonize with our intelligence.
We shall be inclined to pronounce the voyage that led to the way to this New World as the most epoch-making event of all that have occurred since the birth of Christ.
The result has been that although few conservative Presbyterian churches actually worship in the Puritan way, the Puritan theology of worship remains the standard orthodoxy among them. This discrepancy sometimes leads to guilty consciences.
We must be both more conservative and more liberal than most students of Christian worship: conservative in holding exclusively to God's commands in Scripture as our rule of worship, and liberal in defending the liberty of those who apply those.
A sound mind in a sound body, is a short, but full description of a happy state in this World: he that has these two, has little more to wish for; and he that wants either of them, will be little the better for anything else.
All mankind... being all equal and independent, no one ought to harm another in his life, health, liberty or possessions.
All men are liable to error; and most men are, in many points, by passion or interest, under temptation to it.
All wealth is the product of labor.
An excellent man, like precious metal, is in every way invariable; A villain, like the beams of a balance, is always varying, upwards and downwards.
Any one reflecting upon the thought he has of the delight, which any present or absent thing is apt to produce in him, has the idea we call love.
As people are walking all the time, in the same spot, a path appears.
Education begins the gentleman, but reading, good company and reflection must finish him.
Every man has a property in his own person. This nobody has a right to, but himself.
Fashion for the most part is nothing but the ostentation of riches.
Fortitude is the guard and support of the other virtues.
Government has no other end, but the preservation of property.
I attribute the little I know to my not having been ashamed to ask for information, and to my rule of conversing with all descriptions of men on those topics that form their own peculiar professions and pursuits.
I have always thought the actions of men the best interpreters of their thoughts.
I have spent more than half a lifetime trying to express the tragic moment.
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