17 quotes found
“For though men be ignorant, yet they are men”
“Blessedness is not the reward of virtue, but virtue itself.”
“The object of the idea constituting the human mind is the body”
“Minds, however, are conquered not by arms, but by love and nobility.”
“Nothing forbids man to enjoy himself, save grim and gloomy superstition”
“The order and connection of ideas in the same as the order and connection of things”
“The good which every man, who follows after virtue, desires for himself he will also desire for other men...”
“I should attempt to treat human vice and folly geometrically... the passions of hatred, anger, envy, and so on, considered in themselves, follow from the necessity and efficacy of nature... I shall...”
“Those who wish to seek out the cause of miracles and to understand the things of nature as philosophers, and not to stare at them in astonishment like fools, are soon considered heretical and impio...”
“He who has a true idea simultaneously knows that he has a true idea, and cannot doubt of the truth of the thing perceived.”
“Emotion, which is suffering, ceases to be suffering as soon as we form a clear and precise picture of it.”
“Falsity consists in the privation of knowledge, which inadequate, fragmentary, or confused ideas involve.”
“Most errors consist only in our not rightly applying names to things. For when someone says that the lines which are drawn from the center of a circle to its circumference are unequal, he surely un...”
“Hatred is increased by being reciprocated, and can on the other hand be destroyed by love.”
“It is the part of a wise man, I say, to refresh and restore himself in moderation with pleasant food and drink, with scents, with the beauty of green plants, with decoration, music, sports, the the...”
“men, in so far as they live in obedience to reason necessarily do only such things as are necessarily good for human nature, and consequently for each individual man.”
“The superstitious know how to reproach people for their vices better than they know how to teach them virtues, and they strive, not to guide men by reason, but to restrain them by fear, so that the...”
