The infinitude of creation is great enough to make a world, or a Milky Way of worlds, look in comparison with it what a flower or an insect does in comparison with the Earth.
Each according to his own way of seeing things, seek one goal, that is gratification.
Thrift is care and scruple in the spending of one’s means. It is not a virtue and it requires neither skill nor talent.
We can never, even by the strictest examination, get completely behind the secret springs of action.
The sum total of all possible knowledge of God is not possible for a human being, not even through a true revelation. But it is one of the worthiest inquiries to see how far our reason can go in the knowledge of God.
Animals... are there merely as a means to an end. That end is man.
After death the soul possesses self-consciousness, otherwise, it would be the subject of spiritual death, which has already been disproved. With this self-consciousness necessarily remains personality and the consciousness of personal identity.
Beneficence is a duty; and he who frequently practices it, and sees his benevolent intentions realized comes, at length, really to love him to whom he has done good.
Riches ennoble a man’s circumstances, but not himself.
That Logic has advanced in this sure course, even from the earliest times, is apparent from the fact that, since Aristotle, it has been unable to advance a step, and thus to all appearance has reached its completion.
If we could see ourselves... as we really are, we should see ourselves in a world of spiritual natures, our community which neither began at birth nor will end with the death of the body.
Nature does nothing in vain, and in the use of means to her goals she is not prodigal.
It is difficult for the isolated individual to work himself out of the immaturity which has become almost natural for him.
It is precisely in knowing its limits that philosophy consists.
Do what is right, though the world may perish.
Act so that the maxim of your act could be made the principle of a universal law.
Life is the faculty of spontaneous activity, the awareness that we have powers.
The desire of a man for a woman is not directed at her because she is a human being, but because she is a woman. That she is a human being is of no concern to him.
Religion is too important a matter to its devotees to be a subject of ridicule. If they indulge in absurdities, they are to be pitied rather than ridiculed.
All our knowledge falls with the bounds of experience.