GREAT QUOTES OF KANT

 

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GREAT QUOTES OF KANT

1 “I had, therefore, to remove knowledge, in order to make room for belief.”

2. “Seek not the favor of the multitude; it is seldom got by honest and lawful means. But seek the testimony of few; and number, not voices, but weigh them.”

3. “Thoughts without content are empty, intuitions without concepts are blind.”

4. “It is beyond a doubt that all our knowledge that begins with experience.”

5. “The only objects of practical reason are therefore those of good and evil. For by the former is meant an object necessarily desired according to a principle of reason; by the latter one necessarily shunned, also according to a principle of reason.”

6. “Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life.”

7. “Experience without theory is blind, but theory without experience is mere intellectual play.”

8. “Intuition and concepts constitute… the elements of all our knowledge, so that neither concepts without an intuition in some way corresponding to them, nor intuition without concepts, can yield knowledge.”

9. “All our knowledge begins with the senses, proceeds then to the understanding, and ends with reason. There is nothing higher than reason.” 10. “But although all our knowledge begins with experience, it does not follow that it arises from experience.”

GREAT QUOTES OF HUME

 

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GREAT QUOTES OF HUME

** Reason is, and ought only to be the slave of the passions, and can never pretend to any other office than to serve and obey them. - David Hume

** He is happy whom circumstances suit his temper; but he Is more excellent who suits his temper to any circumstance. - David Hume

** Heaven and hell suppose two distinct species of men, the good and the bad. But the greatest part of mankind float betwixt vice and virtue. - David Hume

** Truth springs from argument amongst friends. - David Hume

** The life of man is of no greater importance to the universe than that of an oyster. - David Hume

** To hate, to love, to think, to feel, to see; all this is nothing but to perceive. - David Hume

** The corruption of the best things gives rise to the worst. - David Hume

** That the sun will not rise tomorrow is no less intelligible a proposition, and implies no more contradiction, than the affirmation, that it will rise. - David Hume

** The heights of popularity and patriotism are still the beaten road to power and tyranny. - David Hume

** Beauty in things exists in the mind which contemplates them. - David Hume

Great Quotes of Francis Bacon

 

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Great Quotes of Francis Bacon

** "When you wander, as you often delight to do, you wander indeed, and give never such satisfaction as the curious time requires." - Francis Bacon.

** "If a man will begin with certainties, he shall end in doubts; but if he will be content to begin with doubts, he shall end in certainties." - Francis Bacon.

** "Let the mind be enlarged to the grandeur of the mysteries, and not the mysteries contracted to the narrowness of the mind" - Francis Bacon.

** "God has, in fact, written two books, not just one. Of course, we are all familiar with the first book he wrote, namely Scripture. But he has written a second book called creation." - Francis Bacon.

** "He that hath wife and children hath given hostages to fortune; for they are impediments to great enterprises, either of virtue or mischief." - Francis Bacon.

** "It is a sad fate for a man to die too well known to everybody else, and still unknown to himself." - Francis Bacon.

** "I usually accept bribes from both sides so that tainted money can never influence my decision." - Francis Bacon.

** "Tunes and airs have in themselves some affinity with the affections." - Francis Bacon.

** "Nay, number itself in armies, importeth not much, where the people is of weak courage; for as Virgil saith it never troubles the wolf how many the sheep be." - Francis Bacon, 'Essays Or Counsels Civil And Moral'.

** "Beauty itself is but the sensible image of the Infinite." - Francis Bacon.

GREAT QUOTES OF VOLTAIRE

GREAT QUOTES OF VOLTAIRE

Boredom and Bores

The secret of being a bore is to tell everything.Voltaire: Sept discours en vers sur l'homme

Certainty

Doubt is not a pleasant condition, but certainty is an absurd one.Voltaire

Enemies

I have never made but one prayer to God, a very short one: “O Lord, make my enemies ridiculous.” And God granted it.Voltaire

Error

Love truth, but pardon error.Voltaire: Sept discours en Vers sur l'homme

Freedom of Speech and the Press

I detest what you write, but I would give my life to make it possible for you to continue to write.Voltaire

God

If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent him.Voltaire

God

If God created us in his own image, we have more than reciprocated.Voltaire: Le Sottisier

Goodness

The best is the enemy of the good.Voltaire: Philosophical Dictionary

Marriage

Marriage is the only adventure open to the timid.Voltaire: Pensées d'un Philosophe

Optimism and Pessimism

All is for the best in the best of possible worlds.Voltaire: Candide

GREAT QUOTES OF BERTRAND RUSSEL

 

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GREAT QUOTES OF BERTRAND RUSSEL

America and Americans

In America everybody is of the opinion that he has no social superiors, since all men are equal, but he does not admit that he has no social inferiors.Bertrand Russell: UnpopularEssays

Arguments and Controversy

The most savage controversies are those about matters as to which there is no good evidence either way.Bertrand Russell: Unpopular Essays

Boredom and Bores

Boredom is a vital problem for the moralist, since at least half the sins of mankind are caused by the fear of it.Bertrand Russell: The Conquest of Happiness

Conformity

One should respect public opinion in so far as is necessary to avoid starvation and to keep out of prison, but anything that goes beyond this is voluntary submission to an unnecessary tyranny.Bertrand Russell: The Conquest of Happiness

Enthusiasm and Zeal

What hunger is in relation to food, zest is in relation to life.Bertrand Russell: The Conquest of Happiness

Fear

Fear is the main source of superstition, and one of the main sources of cruelty. To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom.Bertrand Russell: Unpopular Essays

Gossip and Rumor

No one gossips about other people's secret virtues.Bertrand Russell: On Education

Heaven, Hell, and the Hereafter

The infliction of cruelty with a good conscience is a delight to moralists. That is why they invented Hell.Bertrand Russell: Sceptical Essays

Hypocrisy

We have, in fact, two kinds of morality side by side: one which we preach but do not practice, and another which we practice but seldom preach.Bertrand Russell: Sceptical Essays

Leisure

To be able to fill leisure intelligently is the last product of civilization, and at present very few people have reached this level.Bertrand Russell: The Conquest of Happiness