Sweet is the memory of past troubles..
I want to find a way of speaking to fellow human beings that will be cool rather than heated, philosophical rather than polemical, that will bring en….
Although a lot of my work on the mind has been rather abstract and philosophical, I'm interested in psychology and neuroscience and I don't think the….
Peace is a natural effect of trade..
To love to read is to exchange hours of ennui for hours of delight..
Love is the attempt to form a friendship inspired by beauty..
The severity of the laws prevents their execution..
Necessity, the mother of invention..
I have never known any distress that an hour's reading did not relieve..
You cannot step into the same river twice..
Most artists, or at least most of the ones I know, deny having a philosophical outlook that they try to translate into their works. Some had thought ….
In the sort of screen dappled with different states of mind which my consciousness would simultaneously unfold while I read, and which ranged from th….
The learning and knowledge that we have,is,at the most,but little compared with that of which we are ignorant..
The spirit of moderation should also be the spirit of the lawgiver..
We look not at the things which are what you would call seen, but at the things which are not seen. For the things which are seen are temporal. But t….
From the first day to this, sheer greed was the driving spirit of civilization..
If we look at it more from a philosophical standpoint, these foundations of atheism and secular humanism believe that you are your own God. That lead….
The life of man in this world is like the life of a fly in a room filled with 100 boys, each armed with a fly-swatter..
There are men so philosophical that they can see humor in their own toothaches. But there has never lived a man so philosophical that he could see th….
Learning to live ought to mean learning to die - to acknowledge, to accept, an absolute mortality - without positive outcome,or resurrection, or rede….
Slow are the beginnings of philosophy..