Philosophy Quote by Thomas Jefferson — Inspiring Words on Life, Love & Wisdom

“Never put off till tomorrow what you can do today.”

“I have no ambition to govern men; it is a painful and thankless office.”

“Honesty is the first chapter of the book wisdom.”

“And for the support of this declaration, with a firm reliance on the protection of divine providence, we mutually pledge to each other our lives, our fortunes and our sacred honor.”

“Timid men prefer the calm of despotism to the tempestuous sea of Liberty.”

“There is nothing more unequal than the equal treatment of unequal people.”

“If you believed in Christianity or Islam it was called 'faith', but if you believed in astrology or friday the thirteenth it was Superstition!”

“FRANCISCUS: How sweetly she looks! Oh, but there's a wrinkle in her brow as deep as philosophy.”

“In short, philosophical theories are largely the product of the hidden hand of the cognitive unconscious.”

“Your moral code begins by damning man as evil, then demands that he practice a good which it defines as impossible for him to practice…It demands that he starts, not with a standard of value, but with a standard of evil, which is himself, by means of which he is then to define the good: the good is that which he is not.”

“Manlius ... took care in his invitations, actively sought to exclude from his circle crude and vulgar men like Caius Valerius. But they were all around; it was Manlius who lived in a dream world, and his bubble of civility was becoming smaller and smaller. Caius Valerius, powerful member of a powerful family, had never even heard of Plato. A hundred, even fifty years before, such an absurdity would have been inconceivable. Now it was surprising if such a man did know anything of philosophy, and even if it was explained, he would not wish to understand.”