3.7 · 43 votes · 131 reads
Their most read quotes
3.3 · 30 votes
4.7 · 64 votes · 113 reads
Government and Politics
Except our own thoughts, there is nothing absolutely in our power.4.4 · 44 votes · 99 reads
Thought and Reason
I am accustomed to sleep and in my dreams to imagine the same things that lunatics imagine when awake.3.1 · 42 votes · 78 reads
Thought and Reason
I am indeed amazed when I consider how weak my mind is and how prone to error.4.1 · 10 votes · 163 reads
Thought and Reason
In order to improve the mind, we ought less to learn, than to contemplate.4.1 · 7 votes · 193 reads
Thought and Reason
It is not enough to have a good mind; the main thing is to use it well.3.3 · 11 votes · 39 reads
Thought and Reason
The first precept was never to accept a thing as true until I knew it as such without a single doubt.3.4 · 33 votes · 146 reads
Society
The greatest minds are capable of the greatest vices as well as of the greatest virtues.4.2 · 59 votes · 102 reads
Art and Culture
The reading of all good books is like a conversation with the finest minds of past centuries.4.3 · 58 votes · 143 reads
Thought and Reason
There is nothing so strange and so unbelievable that it has not been said by one philosopher or another.4.3 · 41 votes · 20 reads
Art and Culture
Travelling is almost like talking with those of other centuries.3.0 · 50 votes · 60 reads
Government and Politics
When it is not in our power to follow what is true, we ought to follow what is most probable.3.6 · 11 votes · 82 reads