Occupation: Philosopher Birth: May 7, 1711 Death: August 25, 1776
Anything that is conceivable is possible..
The unhappy of all men is he who believes himself to be so..
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 ….
I never asserted such an absurd thing as that things arise without a cause..
Anticipation of pleasure is, in itself, a very considerable pleasure..
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….
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 ….
The life of man is of no greater importance to the universe than that of an oyster..
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..
Beauty in things exists in the mind which contemplates them..
Nothing exists without a cause, the original cause of this universe we call God..
A little philosophy makes a man an Atheist: a great deal converts him to religion.
Human happiness seems to consist in three ingredients: action, pleasure and indolence..
All knowledge degenerates into probability..
A wise man proportions his belief to the evidence..
To hate, to love, to think, to feel, to see; all this is nothing but to perceive..
Reason is, and ought only to be the slave of the passions, and can never pretend to any other office than to serve and obey them..
When men are most sure and arrogant they are commonly most mistaken..
Reading and sauntering and lounging and dosing, which I call thinking, is my supreme Happiness..