Human happiness seems to consist in three ingredients: action, pleasure and indolence..

History is the discovering of the principles of human nature..

When we reflect on the shortness and uncertainty of life, how despicable seem all our pursuits of happiness..

I do not have enough faith to believe there is no god..

There is no such thing as freedom of choice unless there is freedom to refuse..

It is seldom, that liberty of any kind is lost all at once. Slavery has so frightful an aspect to men accustomed to freedom, that it must steal upon ….

The life of man is of no greater importance to the universe than that of an oyster..

Nothing is more surprising than the easiness with which the many are governed by the few..

To hate, to love, to think, to feel, to see; all this is nothing but to perceive..

Beauty in things exists in the mind which contemplates them..

If God is omnipotent, omniscient and wholly good, whence evil? If God wills to prevent evil but cannot, then He is not omnipotent. If He can prevent ….

Anticipation of pleasure is, in itself, a very considerable pleasure..

Anything that is conceivable is possible..

The difference between a man who is led by opinion or emotion and one who is led by reason. The former, whether he will or not, performs things of wh….

The unhappy of all men is he who believes himself to be so..

Reading and sauntering and lounging and dosing, which I call thinking, is my supreme Happiness..

Beauty is no quality in things themselves: It exists merely in the mind which contemplates them; and each mind perceives a different beauty..

No amount of observations of white swans can allow the inference that all swans are white, but the observation of a single black swan is sufficient t….

All knowledge degenerates into probability..

A little philosophy makes a man an Atheist: a great deal converts him to religion.

Nothing exists without a cause, the original cause of this universe we call God..