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“Act only according to that maxim whereby you can at the same time will that it should become a universal law.”

Immanuel Kant · Critical philosophy

“Two things fill the mind with ever new and increasing admiration and awe, the more often and steadily we reflect upon them: the starry heavens above me and the moral law within me.”

Immanuel Kant · Critical philosophy

“Society is a partnership not only between those who are living, but between those who are living, those who are dead, and those who are to be born.”

Edmund Burke · Political philosophy

“The greatest happiness of the greatest number is the foundation of morals and legislation.”

Jeremy Bentham · Utilitarianism

“Late have I loved you, beauty so ancient and so new.”

Augustine of Hippo · Christian Platonism

“What then is time? If no one asks me, I know. If I wish to explain it to someone who asks, I do not know.”

Augustine of Hippo · Christian Platonism

“Take up and read, take up and read.”

Augustine of Hippo · Christian Platonism

“Two loves have made two cities: love of self to the contempt of God, and love of God to the contempt of self.”

Augustine of Hippo · Christian Platonism

“Love, and do what you will.”

Augustine of Hippo · Christian Platonism

“Great is the power of memory, a fearful thing, my God, a deep and boundless manifold.”

Augustine of Hippo · Christian Platonism

“I loved my own undoing. I loved the fault, not that for which I committed the fault.”

Augustine of Hippo · Christian Platonism

“My weight is my love. Wherever I am carried, my love is carrying me.”

Augustine of Hippo · Christian Platonism

“Better a head well made than a head well filled.”

Michel de Montaigne · Renaissance humanism

“If you press me to say why I loved him, I feel that it cannot be expressed, except by answering: because it was he, because it was I.”

Michel de Montaigne · Renaissance humanism

“Each man bears the entire form of the human condition.”

Michel de Montaigne · Renaissance humanism

“I do not portray being. I portray passing.”

Michel de Montaigne · Renaissance humanism

“To compose our character is our duty, not to compose books, and to win, not battles and provinces, but order and tranquillity in our conduct.”

Michel de Montaigne · Renaissance humanism

“Each man calls barbarism whatever is not his own practice.”

Michel de Montaigne · Renaissance humanism

“The greatest thing in the world is to know how to belong to oneself.”

Michel de Montaigne · Renaissance humanism

“It is an absolute perfection, and as it were divine, to know how to enjoy our being rightly.”

Michel de Montaigne · Renaissance humanism

“Good sense is the most evenly distributed thing in the world.”

René Descartes · Rationalism

“I am, I exist, is necessarily true whenever it is put forward by me or conceived in my mind.”

René Descartes · Rationalism

“I am a thing that thinks.”

René Descartes · Rationalism

“I will suppose that some malicious demon of the utmost power and cunning has employed all his energies in order to deceive me.”

René Descartes · Rationalism

“The scope of the will is wider than that of the intellect.”

René Descartes · Rationalism

“We could make ourselves, as it were, the lords and masters of nature.”

René Descartes · Rationalism

“The idea of God is like the mark of the craftsman stamped on his work.”

René Descartes · Rationalism

“The seeker after truth must, once in the course of his life, doubt everything, as far as is possible.”

René Descartes · Rationalism

“Whatever is, is in God, and nothing can be or be conceived without God.”

Baruch Spinoza · Rationalism

“The order and connection of ideas is the same as the order and connection of things.”

Baruch Spinoza · Rationalism

“I shall consider human actions and appetites just as if it were a question of lines, planes, and bodies.”

Baruch Spinoza · Rationalism

“Each thing, as far as it can by its own power, strives to persevere in its being.”

Baruch Spinoza · Rationalism

“Blessedness is not the reward of virtue, but virtue itself.”

Baruch Spinoza · Rationalism

“People think themselves free, because they are conscious of their volitions and their appetite, and do not think of the causes by which they are determined.”

Baruch Spinoza · Rationalism

“The human mind cannot be absolutely destroyed with the body, but something of it remains which is eternal.”

Baruch Spinoza · Rationalism

“The more each one strives, and is able, to seek his own advantage, the more he is endowed with virtue.”

Baruch Spinoza · Rationalism

“It is impossible to think of anything at all in the world, or indeed even beyond it, that could be considered good without limitation except a good will.”

Immanuel Kant · Critical philosophy

“So act that you use humanity, whether in your own person or in the person of any other, always at the same time as an end, never merely as a means.”

Immanuel Kant · Critical philosophy

“I had to deny knowledge in order to make room for faith.”

Immanuel Kant · Critical philosophy

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

Immanuel Kant · Critical philosophy

“The I think must be able to accompany all my representations.”

Immanuel Kant · Critical philosophy

“No treaty of peace shall be held to be valid if it was made with a secret reservation of the material for a future war.”

Immanuel Kant · Critical philosophy

“Autonomy of the will is the property of the will by which it is a law to itself.”

Immanuel Kant · Critical philosophy

“If you have come to the wheel of Fortune, you must accept her turns.”

Boethius · Late Roman philosophy

“The good and happiness are one and the same.”

Boethius · Late Roman philosophy

“The intellect is limited, and a person is not at fault for failing to know what lies beyond it.”

Maimonides · Jewish philosophy

“People have thought that in Hebrew 'image' means shape, and that is the root of a serious confusion about God.”

Maimonides · Jewish philosophy

“We believe that you are something than which nothing greater can be thought.”

Anselm of Canterbury · Scholasticism

“The fool has said in his heart there is no God, and yet he understands what he hears.”

Anselm of Canterbury · Scholasticism

“I do not seek to understand in order that I may believe, but I believe in order that I may understand.”

Anselm of Canterbury · Scholasticism