Quotes by Philosopher

It makes no difference whether a good man has defrauded a bad man, or a bad man defrauded a good man, or whether a good or bad man has committed adultery: the law can look only to the amount of damage done.

The greatest good qualities are those that help others the most.

Art is identical with a state of capacity to make, involving a true course of reasoning.

95% of everything you do is the result of habit.

There is simple ignorance, which is the source of lighter offenses, and double ignorance, which is accompanied by a conceit of wisdom.

Of means of persuading by speaking there are three species: some consist in the character of the speaker; others in the disposing the hearer a certain way; others in the thing itself which is said, by reason of its proving, or appearing to prove the point.

[I]t is rather the case that we desire something because we believe it to be good than that we believe a thing to be good because we desire it. It is the thought that starts things off.

Reason is a light that God has kindled in the soul.

Some animals dig in the ground; others don't. Some animals are active at night, like the owl and bat; others are active during the day. There are tame animals and wild animals. Humans and mules are always tame; leopards and wolves are always wild, and others, like the elephant, are easily tamed.

There are branches of learning and education which we must study merely with a view to leisure spent in intellectual activity, and these are to be valued for their own sake; whereas those kinds of knowledge which are useful in business are to be deemed necessary, and exist for the sake of other things.