"The only objects of practical reason are therefore those of good and evil. For by the former is meant an object necessarily desired according to a principle of reason; by the latter one necessarily shunned, also according to a principle of reason."
"Truth is simply a compliment paid to sentences seen to be paying their way."
"Death may be the greatest of all human blessings."
"It is my ambition to say in ten sentences what others say in a whole book."
"When an individual is kept in a situation of inferiority, the fact is that he does become inferior."
"The price good men pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men."
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"I am not a Marxist."
"What great advantages would philosophy give us over other men, if by studying it we could learn to govern our passions?"
"The happiness of the drop is to die in the river."
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"Why is it the philosopher who is expected to be easier and not some scientist who is even more inaccessible?"
"Doing nothing is better than being busy doing nothing."
In its function, the power to punish is not essentially different from that of curing or educating.
"... bureaucracy, in which no men ... can be held responsible, ... could be properly called the rule by Nobody. Indeed, if we identify tyranny as the government that is not held to give account of itself, rule by Nobody is clearly the most tyrannical of all."
"The history of the world is none other than the progress of the consciousness of freedom."
"Making itself intelligible is suicide for philosophy."
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"Children, I grant, should be innocent; but when the epithet is applied to men, or women, it is but a civil term for weakness."
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"Logic chases truth up the tree of grammar."
"I do not know whether I was then a man dreaming I was a butterfly, or whether I am now a butterfly dreaming I am a man."
"Man differs from the animal only by a little; most men throw that little away."
“we think in words . . . and if not in words, then in mathematical or other symbols. Thus, let no one despise symbols!”
"Philosophy! Empty thinking by ignorant conceited men who think they can digest without eating!"
"No man's knowledge here can go beyond his experience."
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"I would never die for my beliefs because I might be wrong."
"As long as it is allow’d, that reason has no influence on our passions and actions, ’tis in vain to pretend, that morality is discover’d only by a deduction of reason."
“Dubito ergo cogito; cogito ergo sum."
"The foot feels the foot when it feels the ground."
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"The principles of justice are chosen behind a veil of ignorance.”
"Were I but capable of interpreting to the world one half the great thoughts and noble feelings which are buried in her grave, I should be the medium of a greater benefit to it, than is ever likely to arise from anything that I can write, unprompted and unassisted by her all but unrivalled wisdom."
"Philosophy is not a theory but an activity."
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"Natural objects ... must be experienced before any theorizing about them can occur."
"If the assertion that there is a god is nonsensical, then the atheist's assertion that there is no god is equally nonsensical, since it is only a significant proposition that can be significantly contradicted."
"Obstinacy is the result of the will forcing itself into the place of the intellect."
"Reserve your right to think, for even to think wrongly is better than not to think at all."
"Reason in man is rather like God in the world."
"What you do not want done to yourself, do not do to others."
"If kangaroos had no tails, they would topple over seems to me to mean something like this: in any possible state of affairs in which kangaroos have no tails, and which resembles our actual state of affairs as much as kangaroos having no tails permits it to, the kangaroos topple over."
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