Philosophy Quotes

"The most savage controversies are those about matters as to which there is no good evidence either way" "A wonderful fact to reflect upon, that every human creature is constituted to be that profound secret and mystery to every other" "Have the courage to use your own understanding" "Idealism is the assertion that we have an absolute finite knowledge of the infinite whereas realism professes that the infinite is known to us only relatively and therefore must remain always a mystery to us" "Metaphysics is a dark ocean without shores or lighthouse strewn with many a philosophic wreck" "So act that your principle of action might safely be made a law for the whole world" "Reality exists in the human mind, and nowhere else." "The essence of being human is that one does not seek perfection." "Men can only be happy when they do not assume that the object of life is happiness." "To die hating them, that was freedom." "Sanity is not statistical." "The choice for mankind lies between freedom and happiness and for the great bulk of mankind, happiness is better." "Truth is what works." "The greatest enemy of any one of our truths may be the rest of our truths." "The art of being wise is knowing what to overlook."