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As Simonides has exposed the vicious part of women from the doctrine of pre-existence, some of the ancient philosophers have satirized the vicious part of the human species from a notion of the soul’s post-existence.: Joseph Addison

The road to true philosophy is precisely the same with that which leads to true religion; and from both one and the other, unless we would enter in as little children, we must expect to be totally excluded.: Francis Bacon

Plato said his master Socrates was like the apothecary’s gallipots, that had on the outside apes, owls, and satyrs, but within precious drugs.: Francis Bacon

The ancient sophists and rhetoricians, which ever had young auditors, lived till they were an hundred years old.: Francis Bacon

Diogenes was asked in a kind of scorn, What was the matter that philosophers haunted rich men, and not rich men philosophers? He answered, Because the one knew what they wanted, the other did not.: Francis Bacon

Epicurus seems to have had his brains so muddled and confounded that he scarce ever kept in the right way, though the main maxim of his philosophy was to trust to his senses and follow his nose.: Richard Bentley

Some great men of the last age, before the mechanical philosophy was revived, were too much addicted to this nugatory art: when occult quality, and sympathy and antipathy, were admitted for satisfactory explications of things.: Richard Bentley

Philosophy would solidly be established, if men would more carefully distinguish those things that they know from those that they ignore.: Robert Boyle

In wonder all philosophy began, in wonder it ends, and admiration fills up the interspace; but the first wonder is the offspring of ignorance, the last is the parent of adoration.: Samuel Taylor Coleridge

How conformable Socrates was to the Pagan religion and worship may appear from those last dying words of his, when he should be most serious.: Ralph Cudworth

Persius professes the stoic philosophy; the most generous among all the sects who have given rules of ethics.: John Dryden

Let Epicurus give indolency as an attribute to his gods, and place in it the happiness of the blest: the Divinity which we worship has given us not only a precept against it, but his own example to the contrary.: John Dryden

The scholastic brocard “Nihil est in intellectu quod non prius fuit in sensu” is the fundamental article in the creed of that school of philosophers who are called sensualists.: James F. Ferrier

In the philosophy of Kant our judgments are reduced under the four heads of quantity, quality, relation, and modality…. The category of modality includes possibility and impossibility, existence and non-existence, necessity or contingency.: William Fleming

That the Aristotelian philosophy is a huddle of words and terms insignificant has been the censure of the wisest.: Joseph Glanvill

Many of the most accomplished wits of all ages have resolved their knowledge into Socrates his sum total, and after all their pains in quest of science have sat down in a professed nescience.: Joseph Glanvill

While human philosophy was never able to abolish idolatry in a single village, the promulgation of the gospel overthrew it in a great part (and that the most enlightened) of the world.: Robert Hall

By a double blunder in philosophy and Greek, ideologic … has in France become the name peculiarly distinctive of that philosophy of mind which exclusively derives our knowledge from sensation.: Sir William Hamilton

Philosophical doubt is not an end, but a mean.: Sir William Hamilton

’Tis a high point of philosophy and virtue for a man to be so present to himself as to be always provided against all accidents.: Roger L’Estrange

This is the mission of positivism, to generalize science and to systematize sociality: in other words, it aims at creating a philosophy of the sciences, as a basis for the new social faith.: George H. Lewes

In philosophical enquiries the order of nature should govern, which in all progression is to go from the place one is then in to that which lies next to it.: John Locke

The systems of natural philosophy that have obtained are to be read more to know the hypotheses, than with hopes to gain there a comprehensive, scientifical, and satisfactory knowledge of the works of nature.: John Locke

The philosophers of old did in vain enquire, whether the summum bonum consisted in riches, bodily delights, virtue, or contemplation: they might as reasonably have disputed whether the best relish were in apples, plums, or nuts.: John Locke

All our simple ideas are adequate; because, being nothing but the effects of certain powers in things, fitted and ordained by God to produce such sensations in us, they cannot but be correspondent and adequate to those powers.: John Locke

Malebranche having shewed the difficulties of the other ways, and how unsufficient they are to give a satisfactory account of the ideas we have, erects this, of seeing all things in God, upon their ruin, as the tree.: John Locke

This seeing all things, because we can desire to see all things, Malebranche makes a proof that they are present to our minds; and if they be present, they can no ways be present but by the presence of God, who contains them all.: John Locke

He who, with Plato, shall place beatitude in the knowledge of God, will have his thoughts raised to other contemplations than those who looked not beyond this spot of earth and those perishing things in it.: John Locke

The Christian religion, rightly understood, is the deepest and choicest piece of philosophy that is.: Sir Thomas More

Philosophy is the science of first principles, that, namely, which investigates the primary grounds, and determines the fundamental certainty, of human knowledge generally.: John Daniel Morell

To derive two or three general principles of motion from phenomena, and afterwards to tell us how the properties and actions of all corporeal things follow from those manifest principles, would be a very great step in philosophy.: Sir Isaac Newton

Philosophy is a modest profession; it is all reality and plain dealing. I hate solemnity and pretence, with nothing but pride at the bottom.: Pliny

All those school-men, though they were exceeding witty, yet better teach all their followers to shift, than to resolve by their distinctions.: Sir Walter Raleigh

Philosophy is the health of the mind.: Seneca

Hast any philosophy in thee, shepherd?: William Shakespeare

What admirable things occur in the remains of several other philosophers! Short, I confess, of the rules of Christianity, but generally above the lives of Christians.: Robert South

Epicurus’s discourse concerning the original of the world is so ridiculously merry, that the design of his philosophy was pleasure, and not instruction.: Robert South

The land of philosophy contains partly an open, champaign country, passable by every common understanding, and partly a range of woods, traversable only by the speculative.: Abraham Tucker

The discovery of what is true, and the practice of that which is good, are the two most important objects of philosophy.: François Marie Arouet de Voltaire

This rule of casting away all our former prejudicate opinions is not proposed to any of us to be practised at once as subjects or Christians, but merely as philosophers.: Dr. Isaac Watts

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