Philosophy Quotes

"Sometimes the most complicated questions have the simplest answers" "The only thing certain is nothing is certain." "The plague of man is boasting of his knowledge." "It is better to know how to learn than to know" "Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living" "To love truth for truth's sake is the principal part of human perfection in this world, and the seed-plot of all other virtues." "No man's knowledge here can go beyond his experience." "The acts of the mind, wherein it exerts its power over simple ideas, are principally these three: 1. Combining several simple ideas into one compound one, and thus all complex ideas are made. 2. The second is bringing two ideas, whether simple or complex, together and setting them by one another so as to take a view of them at once, without uniting them into one, by which way it gets all its ideas of relations. 3. The third is separating them from all other ideas that accompany them in their real existence. This is called abstraction and thus all its general ideas are made." "We must make the best of those ills which cannot be avoided" "The entrance into heaven is not at the end of this life" "The created universe is but a dream of the mind existing in the mind of God" "There is a kind of splendid stupidity" "Trifles make the sum of life" "Wisdom is of the soul, is not susceptible of proof" "Now I see the secret of making the best persons"