The function of the true state is to impose the minimum restrictions and safeguard the maximum liberties of the people, and it never regards the pers….

The busier we are, the more acutely we feel that we live, the more conscious we are of life..

Look closely. The beautiful may be small..

Genius is the ability to independently arrive at and understand concepts that would normally have to be taught by another person..

We assume a common sense as the necessary condition of the universal communicability of our knowledge, which is presupposed in every logic and every ….

Space and time are the framework within which the mind is constrained to construct its experience of reality..

It is therefore correct to say that the senses do not err — not because they always judge rightly, but because they do not judge at all..

No state at war with another state should engage in hostilities of such a kind as to render mutual confidence impossible when peace will have been ma….

God put a secret art into the forces of Nature so as to enable it to fashion itself out of chaos into a perfect world system..

We can judge the heart of a man by his treatment of animals..

Have patience awhile; slanders are not long-lived. Truth is the child of time; erelong she shall appear to vindicate thee..

Act in such a way that you will be worthy of being happy..

Reason must approach nature with the view, indeed, of receiving information from it, not, however, in the character of a pupil, who listens to all th….

A man who has tasted with profound enjoyment the pleasure of agreeable society will eat with a greater appetite than he who rode horseback for two ho….

Aristotle can be regarded as the father of logic. But his logic is too scholastic, full of subtleties, and fundamentally has not been of much value t….

THERE ARE TWO THINGS that don't have to mean anything, one is music and the other is laughter..

Nature has willed that man should, by himself, produce everything that goes beyond the mechanical ordering of his animal existence, and that he shoul….

The existence of the Bible, as a book for the people, is the greatest benefit which the human race has ever experienced. Every attempt to belittle it….

There is needed, no doubt, a body of servants (ministerium) of the invisible church, but not officials (officiales), in other words, teachers but not….

Arrogance is, as it were, a solicitation on the part of one seeking honor for followers, whom he thinks he is entitled to treat with contempt..

Christianity possesses the great advantage over Judaism of being represented as coming from the mouth of the first Teacher not as a statutory but as ….