English Philosopher Quotations

The best part of beauty is that which no picture can express.

Society exists for the benefit of its members, not the members for the benefit of society.

It is the greatest good to the greatest number of people which is the measure of right and wrong.

For this is our most perfect duty and yet least known to us by nature: Whatever we conceive or will should be joined with the good of our neighbor.

Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested.

In the state of nature profit is the measure of right.

The greatest happiness of the greatest number is the foundation of morals and legislation.

As to the evil which results from a censorship, it is impossible to measure it, for it is impossible to tell where it ends.

The question is not, "Can they reason?" nor, "Can they talk?" but rather, "Can they suffer?

Prudence is but experience, which equal time, equally bestows on all men, in those things they equally apply themselves unto.

The world has not been in existence from eternity nor could it have been according to the present dispensation and ordering of things.

The behavior of men to the lower animals, and their behavior to each other, bear a constant relationship.

Wise men make more opportunities than they find.

They that will not apply new remedies must expect new evils.

Antiquities are history defaced, or some remnants of history which have casually escaped the shipwreck of time.

Words are wise men's counters, they do but reckon with them, but they are the money of fools.

Since, however, it is immaterial whether the work is done by assistants or a machine, I decided to build a machine equivalent to an array of about 200 separating funnels.

Much can often be learned by the repetition under different conditions, even if the desired result is not obtained.

Perfect freedom is reserved for the man who lives by his own work and in that work does what he wants to do.

I don't have any specific role model. I admire anyone who is strong, confident, intelligent.

But the church cannot confer the necessary gifts for this ministry, and cannot prescribe for God those upon whom he should confer them.

I have been enjoying my return to modeling. That's where my career started many years ago.

Playboy was a wonderful experience and a great opportunity for me.

I would like to take this opportunity to record here my belief that one should take a minimum of care and preparation over first experiments.

I would never discourage anyone from doing what it is in life that they want to do. But I would encourage them to find out the pros and cons of anything they become involved in.

There are not many people within the WWF that I am contact with.

At this point I have no interest in returning to wrestling. I am pursuing my acting career. But I never say never. I enjoyed the three years I was in the wrestling industry.

There was absolutely no strain in marriage. Marc and I understand that this is a business. We have no problem separating our personal life with our personal life. And we have a very strong relationship.

The worship which directs itself toward God as our good regards him either as he is ours at present, in faith, or as he is to be ours, in hope.

The solar industry needs stable markets. With fair and good incentives we can have solar power competitive in ten year's time.

They that approve a private opinion, call it an opinion; but they that mislike it, heresy: and yet heresy signifies no more than private opinion.

A man's conscience and his judgement is the same thing; and as the judgement, so also the conscience, may be erroneous.

There will always be someone to take your place, but no one can every replace you.

It's a wonderful feeling knowing that people are interested in what I'm doing.

The joys of parents are secret, and so are their griefs and fears.

The counsel of God is, as it were, his deliberation over the best manner of accomplishing anything already approved by the understanding and the will.

I'm glad to see that women have an important role within the industry. My no. 1 complaint would still be that most women are very submissive and victims. I would like to see women portrayed in a much stronger and intelligent capacity.

I have no regrets in my life. I think that everything happens to you for a reason. The hard times that you go through build character, making you a much stronger person.

If every conceivable precaution is taken at first, one is often too discouraged to proceed at all.

Hearing here, therefore, means any receiving of the word of God whether it be communicated to us by preaching, reading, or any other way.

The ultimate effect of shielding men from the effects of folly, is to fill the world with fools.

All of the ideas are simple and had peoples' minds been directed that way the method would have flourished perhaps a century earlier.