Philosophical Quotes - Page 2

Our new government is founded upon exactly the opposite idea; its foundations are laid, its corner- stone rests, upon the great truth that the negro is not equal to the white man; that slavery subordination to the superior race is his natural and normal condition. This, our new government, is the first, in the history of the world, based upon this great physical, philosophical, and moral truth.

Every heart sings a song, incomplete, until another heart whispers back.

The first requisite for the happiness of the people is the abolition of religion.

Every man is born as many men and dies as a single one.

There is frequently more to be learned from the unexpected questions of a child than the discourses of men.

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

The theory of Communism may be summed up in one sentence: Abolish all private property.

I have looked into most philosophical systems and I have seen that none will work without God.

Curiosity is the lust of the mind.

Two things awe me most, the starry sky above me and the moral law within me.

He who lives in harmony with himself lives in harmony with the universe.

The limits of my language means the limits of my world.

Learning to live ought to mean learning to die - to acknowledge, to accept, an absolute mortality - without positive outcome,or resurrection, or redemption, for oneself or for anyone else. That has been the old philosophical injunction since Plato: to be a philosopher is to learn how to die.

Light, seeking light, doth light of light beguile

The ignorant man is not free, because what confronts him is an alien world, something outside him and in the offing, on which he depends, without his having made this foreign world for himself and therefore without being at home in it by himself as in something his own. The impulse of curiosity, the pressure for knowledge, from the lowest level up to the highest rung of philosophical insight arises only from the struggle to cancel this situation of unfreedom and to make the world one's own in one's ideas and thought.

The person who has lived the most is not the one with the most years but the one with the richest experiences.

Eventually, Aristotle appeared among the Greeks. He improved the methods of logic and systematized its problems and details. He assigned to logic its proper place as the first philosophical discipline and the introduction to philosophy. Therefore he is called the First Teacher.

The world would be happier if men had the same capacity to be silent that they have to speak.

Opinion is the medium between knowledge and ignorance.

If you care enough for a result, you will most certainly attain it.

Just living is not enough... one must have sunshine, freedom, and a little flower.

Be careful when you fight the monsters, lest you become one.

Social progress can be measured exactly by the social position of the fair sex.

The assumption that animals are without rights, and the illusion that our treatment of them has no moral significance, is a positively outrageous example of Western crudity and barbarity. Universal compassion is the only guarantee of morality.

No government has the right to decide on the truth of scientific principles, nor to prescribe in any way the character of the questions investigated. Neither may a government determine the aesthetic value of artistic creations, nor limit the forms of literacy or artistic expression. Nor should it pronounce on the validity of economic, historic, religious, or philosophical doctrines. Instead it has a duty to its citizens to maintain the freedom, to let those citizens contribute to the further adventure and the development of the human race.