Quotes by Philosopher

It is likely that unlikely things should happen

Both Self-restraint and Unrestraint are a matter of extremes as compared with the character of the mass of mankind; the restrained man shows more and the unrestrained man less steadfastness than most men are capable of.

And this lies in the nature of things: What people are potentially is revealed in actuality by what they produce.

The heart is the perfection of the whole organism. Therefore the principles of the power of perception and the souls ability to nourish itself must lie in the heart.

To give a satisfactory decision as to the truth it is necessary to be rather an arbitrator than a party to the dispute.

It is best to rise from life as from a banquet, neither thirsty nor drunken.

Man, as an originator of action, is a union of desire and intellect.

.. for desire is like a wild beast, and anger perverts rulers and the very best of men. Hence law is intelligence without appetition.

It was through the feeling of wonder that men now and at first began to philosophize.

Opinion involves belief (for without belief in what we opine we cannot have an opinion), and in the brutes though we often find imagination we never find belief.