Inspirational Sayings

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.

Scepticism is the freedom which thought achieves in itself.

For to believe that any one should be so fool-hardy, as to put himself into a state of war, without necessity, is to believe that he is a fool.

If you don't believe in magic, then you can't believe in reality.

The world would be much more happy if men were to govern their passions by reason, than if they were to leave them unbridled.

We live in the best of all possible worlds.

Man prefers to believe what he prefers to be true.

There are two ways to be fooled. One is to believe what isn't true; the other is to refuse to believe what is true.

No man should think of going forward in the expedition, who could not do so with his whole heart, or who had the least misgiving as to its success.

It is difficult to find happiness within oneself, but it is impossible to find it anywhere else.

Man is a useless passion.

The word 'love' has by now been so debased and perverted that it has become almost impossible to use it without a sense of shame.

Is it not possible for the judge to be wrong?

If we don't believe in freedom of expression for people we despise, we don't believe in it at all.

The work of the philosopher consists in assembling reminders for a particular purpose.

It is undesirable to believe a proposition when there is no ground whatever for supposing it true.

There is scarcely any passion without struggle.

Against all things it is possible to provide security, but as against death we all live in an unwalled city.

Difficulties strengthen the mind, as labor does the body.

As a mark is not set up for the purpose of missing the aim, so neither does the nature of evil exist in the universe.