Quotes of All Topics . Occasions . Authors
One person with a belief is equal to ninety-nine who have only interests.
I have learned to seek my happiness by limiting my desires, rather than in attempting to satisfy them.
Trade is a social act.
Language is the light of the mind
Liberty consists in doing what one desires.
Whatever crushes individuality is despotism.
Stupidity is much the same all the world over
Truth emerges from the clash of adverse ideas.
It is a law, that every event depends on some law.
A [psychological] difficulty is not an impossibility.
The perpetual obstacle to human advancement is custom.
The demand for commodities is not the demand for labor.
Art is the employent of the powers of nature for an end.
There is no 'one-size-fits-all' way to build an audience.
All good things which exist are the fruits of originality.
Ask yourself whether you are happy, and you cease to be so.
Genius can only breathe freely in an atmosphere of freedom.
Mechanizing man's work had changed but not lighted his toil.
Photography is a brief complicity between foresight and luck.
God is a word to express, not our ideas, but the want of them.
Men do not desire to be rich, but to be richer than other men.
All silencing of discussion is an assumption of infallibility.
It is better to be Socrates dissatisfied than a pig satisfied.
The habit of analysis has a tendency to wear away the feelings.
He who does anything because it is the custom, makes no choice.
The moral influence of woman over man is almost always salutary.
Over one's mind and over one's body the individual is sovereign.
He who knows only his own side of the case knows little of that.
A profound conviction raises a man above the feeling of ridicule.
Any participation, even in the smallest public function, is useful.
In the long-run, the best proof of a good character is good actions.
There is always hope when people are forced to listen to both sides.
The love of power and the love of liberty are in eternal antagonism.
All the good of which humanity is capable is comprised in obedience.
The moment one asks himself whether he is happy, he ceases to be so.
Everything must be free to be written and published without restraint.
Pleasure and freedom from pain, are the only things desirable as ends.
Customs are made for customary circumstances, and customary characters.
That so few now dare to be eccentric, marks the chief danger of the time.
To understand one woman is not necessarily to understand any other woman.
When one's ideas are not challenged, one's ability to defend them weakens.
Men do not want solely the obedience of women, they want their sentiments.
Landlords grow rich in their sleep without working, risking or economising
Liberty lies in the rights of that person whose views you find most odious.
Originality is the one thing which unoriginal minds cannot feel the use of.
Everyone who receives the protection of society owes a return for the benefit.
I am not aware that any community has a right to force another to be civilized.
Induction is a process of inference; it proceeds from the known to the unknown.
A person's taste is as much his own peculiar concern as his opinion or his purse.
The disease which inflicts bureaucracy and what they usually die from is routine.
