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Be a philosopher but amid all your philosophy be still a man.

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Reason is, and ought only to be the slave of the passions.

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Should a traveler, returning from a far country, bring us an account of men wholly different from any with whom we were ever acquainted, men who were ...more

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Generally speaking, the errors in religion are dangerous; those in philosophy only ridiculous.

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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.

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There are instances, indeed, wherein men shew a vanity in resembling a great man in his countenance, shape, air, or other minute circumstances, that c...more

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A body of ten ounces raised in any scale may serve as a proof, that the counterbalancing weight exceeds ten ounces; but can never afford a reason that...more

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It is impossible for us to think of any thing, which we have not antecedently felt, either by our external or internal senses.

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There is no method of reasoning more common, and yet none more blameable, than, in philosophical disputes, to endeavour the refutation of any hypothes...more

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Indulge your passion for science…but let your science be human, and such as may have a direct reference to action and society. Be a philosopher; but a...more

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Here then we are first to consider a book, presented to us by a barbarous and ignorant people, written in an age when they were still more barbarous, ...more

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A man who has cured himself of all ridiculous prepossessions, and is fully, sincerely, and steadily convinced, from experience as well as philosophy, ...more

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Disputes with men, pertinaciously obstinate in their principles, are, of all others, the most irksome; except, perhaps, those with persons, entirely d...more

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Nothing is more usual than for philosophers to encroach upon the province of grammarians; and to engage in disputes of words, while they imagine that ...more

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This world, for aught he knows, is very faulty and imperfect, compared to a superior standard; and was only the first rude essay of some infant deity,...more