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Life does not proceed by the association and addition of elements, but by dissociation and division.

Don't you believe that there is in man a deep so profound as to be hidden even to him in whom it is?

The first method for estimating the intelligence of a ruler is to look at the men he has around him.

But every historical statement and legitimization itself moves within a certain relation to history.

We are much beholden to Machiavel and others, that write what men do, and not what they ought to do.

Unless we place our religion and our treasure in the same thing, religion will always be sacrificed.

Surrogate motherhood has been the subject of much philosophical and political dispute over the years.

That's an interesting philosophical question. When your boner goes away, is that one gone... forever?

Health is the soul that animates all the enjoyments of life, which fade and are tasteless without it.

The first precept was never to accept a thing as true until I knew it as such without a single doubt.

Tell me what gives a man or woman their greatest pleasure and I'll tell you their philosophy of life.

It is easier to produce ten volumes of philosophical writings than to put one principle into practice.

In a republic this rule ought to be observed: that the majority should not have the predominant power.

Variant: When it is not in our power to follow what is true, we ought to follow what is most probable.

When our tools are broken, we feel broken. And when somebody fixes one, we feel a tiny bit more whole.

Any religious, philosophical or political idea that doesn't lead one towards love ought to be forsaken

Nature is a book, a letter, a fairy tale (in the philosophical sense) or whatever you want to call it.

I don't want to be overly philosophical, but I think there are things you earn for yourself as you go.

No woman has been a significant original thinker in any of the world's great philosophical traditions.

If men were born free, they would, so long as they remained free, form no conception of good and evil.

Find out how much God has given you and from it take what you need; the remainder is needed by others.

Genuine philosophical problems are always rooted outside philosophy and they die if these roots decay.

Excess of liberty, whether it lies in state or individuals, seems only to pass into excess of slavery.

Everything that exists is born for no reason, carries on living through weakness, and dies by accident

The good is, like nature, an immense landscape in which man advances through centuries of exploration.

Insanity in individuals is something rare - but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule.

The advantage of a bad memory is that one enjoys several times the same good things for the first time.

When you are aspiring to the highest place, it is honorable to reach the second or even the third rank.

God is nearer to me than I am to myself; He is just as near to wood and stone, but they do not know it.

I'm very educated and can give you somewhat of a vocabulary, but I don't get to the philosophical side.

The reason the Romans built their great paved highways was because they had such inconvenient footwear.

Whoever does not regard what he has as most ample wealth, is unhappy, though he be master of the world.

The traditional disputes of philosophers are, for the most part, as unwarranted as they are unfruitful.

Whatsoever is contrary to nature is contrary to reason, and whatsoever is contrary to reason is absurd.

It is one thing to show a man that he is in an error, and another to put him in possession of the truth.

I consider early childhood events as most essential to a man's scientific and philosophical development.

What you discover in a democracy is that it is difficult to build a house when each nail has an opinion.

Everything that happens happens as it should, and if you observe carefully, you will find this to be so.

Most of the propositions and questions to be found in philosophical works are not false but nonsensical.

Trump shows no philosophical or moral compass and is so divisive that his negative ratings are sky high.

Fanaticism is the child of false zeal and of superstition, the father of intolerance and of persecution.

Man has to awaken to wonder - and so perhaps do peoples. Science is a way of sending him to sleep again.

For this reason poetry is something more philosophical and more worthy of serious attention than history.

What each man feared would happen to himself, did not trouble him when he saw that it would ruin another.

Capital is reckless of the health or length of life of the laborer, unless under compulsion from society.

Freedom is a man's natural power of doing what he pleases, so far as he is not prevented by force or law.

Because people have no thoughts to deal in, they deal cards, and try and win one another's money. Idiots!

The precepts of the law are these: to live honestly, to injure no one, and to give everyone else his due.

But although all our knowledge begins with experience, it does not follow that it arises from experience.

It is not contrary to reason to prefer the destruction of the whole world to the scratching of my finger.

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