Quotes on Philosophical

Peace is liberty in tranquillity.

Though silence is not necessarily an admission, it is not a denial, either.

Any man is liable to err, only a fool persists in error.

An unjust peace is better than a just war.

The function of wisdom is to discriminate between good and evil.

The higher we are placed, the more humbly we should walk.

A home without books is a body without soul.

Brevity is a great charm of eloquence.

There is no one who can give you wiser advice than you can give yourself: you will never make a slip, if you listen to your own heart.

In a philosophical dispute, he gains most who is defeated, since he learns most.

Pretend what we may, the whole man within us is at work when we form our philosophical opinions.

There is a noble manner of being poor, and who does not know it will never be rich.

What can I know? What ought I to do? What may I hope?

There is a fountain of youth: it is your mind, your talents, the creativity you bring to your life and the lives of the people you love. When you learn to tap this source, you will truly have defeated age.

Fashion for the most part is nothing but the ostentation of riches.

We should have a great fewer disputes in the world if words were taken for what they are, the signs of our ideas only, and not for things themselves.

Things of this world are in so constant a flux, that nothing remains long in the same state.

The only fence against the world is a thorough knowledge of it.

Where all is but dream, reasoning and arguments are of no use, truth and knowledge nothing.

Where there is no property there is no injustice.

Parents wonder why the streams are bitter, when they themselves have poisoned the fountain.