Were a stranger to drop on a sudden into this world, I would shew him, as a specimen of its ills, an hospital full of diseases, a prison crowd...
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Nothing is demonstrable, unless the contrary implies a contradiction. Nothing, that is distinctly conceivable, implies a contradiction. Whatev...
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Human happiness seems to consist in three ingredients; action, pleasure and indolence. And though these ingredients ought to be mixed in different proportions, according to the disposition of the person, yet no one ingredient can be entirely wanting without destroying in some measure the relish of the whole composition. composition.
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Immanuel Kant was a real pissant
Who was very rarely stable
Heidegger, Heidegger was a boozy beggar
Who could think you under the table
David Hume could out consume
Schopenhauer and Hegel
And Wittgenstein was a beery swine
Who was just as schloshed as Schlegel
There's nothing Nietzsche couldn't teach ya
'Bout the raising of the wrist
Socrates, himself, was permanently pissed
John Stuart Mill, of his own free will
On half a pint of shandy was particularly ill
Plato they say, could stick it away
Half a crate of whiskey every day
Aristotle, Aristotle was a bugger for the bottle
Hobbes was fond of his dram
And Rene' Descartes was a drunken fart
'I drink, therefore I am'
Yes, Socrates, himself, is particularly missed
A lovely little thinker
But a bugger when he's pissed
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What a peculiar privilege has this little agitation of the brain which we call 'thought'.
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If we take in our hand any volume; of divinity or school metaphysics, for instance; let us ask, 'Does it contain any abstract reasoning concerning quantity or number?' No. 'Does it contain any experimental reasoning concerning matter of fact and existence?' No. Commit it then to the flames: for it can contain nothing but sophistry and illusion.
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The life of man is of no greater importance to the universe than that of an oyster.
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He is happy whom circumstances suit his temper; but he Is more excellent who suits his temper to any circumstance.
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Nothing is more surprising than the easiness with which the many are governed by the few.
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Where ambition can cover its enterprises, even to the person himself, under the appearance of principle, it is the most incurable and inflexible of passions.
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Such is the nature of novelty that where anything pleases it becomes doubly agreeable if new; but if it displeases, it is doubly displeasing on that very account
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The mention of one apartment in a building naturally introduces an enquiry or discourse concerning the others: and if we think of a wound, we ...
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Eloquence, at its highest pitch, leaves little room for reason or reflection, but addresses itself entirely to the desires and affections, captivating the willing hearers, and subduing their understanding.
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Custom, then, is the great guide of human life.
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The richest genius, like the most fertile soil, when uncultivated, shoots up into the rankest weeds.
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Art may make a suit of clothes but nature must produce a man.
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Between married persons, the cement of friendship is by the laws supposed so strong as to abolish all division of possessions: and has often, ...
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It is seldom that liberty of any kind is lost all at once.
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History is the discovering of the constant and universal principles of human nature.
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Beauty in things exist in the mind which contemplates them.
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Doctor, as I believe you would not choose to tell any thing but the truth, you had better tell him, that I am dying as fast as my enemies, if I have any, could wish, and as easily and cheerfully as my best friends could desire.
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Beauty in things exists in the mind which contemplates them.
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I shall venture to affirm, that there never was a popular religion, which represented the state of departed souls in such a light, as would re...
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Riches are valuable at all times, and to all men; because they always purchase pleasures, such as men are accustomed to, and desire: Nor can a...
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Moral choices do not depend on personal preference and private decision but on right reason and, I would add, divine order.
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The distinction, which we often make betwixt power and the exercise of it, is equally without foundation.
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Nothing endears so much a friend as sorrow for his death. The pleasure of his company has not so powerful an influence.
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Truth springs from argument amongst friends.
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Art may make a suit of clothes: but nature must produce a man.
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Truth, springs from agrument amongst friends.
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