111 quotes found
“The order and connection of ideas in the same as the order and connection of things”
“The object of the idea constituting the human mind is the body”
“I saw that all the things I feared and which feared me had nothing good or bad in them save in so far as the mind was affected by them.”
“After experience had taught me that all the usual surroundings of social life are vain and futile; seeing that none of the objects of my fears contained in themselves anything either good or bad, e...”
“The formation of society serves not only for defensive purposes, but is also very useful, and, indeed, absolutely necessary, as rendering possible the division of labor. If men did not render mutua...”
“Scriptural doctrine contains not abstruse speculation or philosophic reasoning, but very simple matters able to be understood by the most sluggish mind.”
“It will be said that, although Gods law is inscribed in our hearts, Scripture is nevertheless the Word of God, and it is no more permissible to say of Scripture that it is mutilated and contaminate...”
“If Scripture were to describe the downfall of an empire in the style adopted by political historians, the common people would not be stirred.”
“Everyone is by absolute natural right the master of his own thoughts, and thus utter failure will attend any attempt in a commonwealth to force men to speak only as prescribed by the sovereign desp...”
“Emotion, which is suffering, ceases to be suffering as soon as we form a clear and precise picture of it.”
“Every person should embrace those [dogmas] that he, being the best judge of himself, feels will do most to strengthen in him love of justice.”
“He who, while unacquainted with these writings, nevertheless knows by the natural light that there is a God having the attributes we have recounted, and who also pursues a true way of life, is alto...”
“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...”
“For though men be ignorant, yet they are men”
“Hatred is increased by being reciprocated, and can on the other hand be destroyed by love.”
“All laws which can be violated without doing any one any injury are laughed at. Nay, so far are they from doing anything to control the desires and passions of men that, on the contrary, they direc...”
“I call him free who is led solely by reason.”
“In proportion as we endeavor to live according to the guidance of reason, shall we strive as much as possible to depend less on hope, to liberate ourselves from fear, to rule fortune, and to direct...”
“Even more, in the created thing, is a perfection that she exists; since the greatest of all imperfections is, not to exist.”
