Explore 1213 quotes by Philosophers

Epicurus. Quoted in The Lives of Eminent Philosophers, written by Diogenes Laërtius, translated by Pamela Mensch, edited by James Miller. Oxford University Press, 2018, bk. 10, ch. 1, sect. 125.

Mill, John Stuart. "On Liberty." On Liberty, Utilitarianism and Other Essays, edited by Mark Philp and Frederick Rosen. Oxford University Press, 2015, ch. 2.

Smith, Adam. The Wealth of Nations, edited by Edwin Cannan. The Modern Library, bk. 4, ch. 9.

Plutarch. "Aemilius." Roman Lives: A Selection of Eight Roman Lives, translated by Robin Waterfield. Oxford University Press, 2009.

Aurelius, Marcus. Meditations, edited and translated by Martin Hammond. Penguin Classics, 2015, bk. 4.

Hobbes, Thomas. Leviathan, edited by Christopher Brooke. Penguin Classics, 2017, pt. 1, ch. 12.

Hume, David. "Of the Idea of Necessary Connexion." An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding, edited by Tom L. Beauchamp. Oxford University Press, 2000, sect. 7, pt. 2, para. 41.

Mill, John Stuart. "Considerations on Representative Government." On Liberty, Utilitarianism and Other Essays, edited by Mark Philp and Frederick Rosen. Oxford University Press, 2015, ch. 7.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo. "Historic Notes of Life and Letters in New England." The Portable Emerson, edited by Jeffrey S. Cramer. Penguin Classics, 2014.

Epictetus. Enchiridion, translated by George Long. Dover Publications, 2004, ch. 1.

Bacon, Francis. "Essays, or Counsels, Civil and Moral (1625): Of Cunning." Francis Bacon: The Major Works, edited by Brian Vickers. Oxford University Press, 2008.

Wollstonecraft, Mary. "A Vindication of the Rights of Women." A Vindication of the Rights of Women and A Vindication of the Rights of Men, edited by Janet Todd. Oxford University Press, 2009, ch. 3.

Mill, John Stuart. "The Subjection of Women." On Liberty, Utilitarianism and Other Essays, edited by Mark Philp and Frederick Rosen. Oxford University Press, 2015, ch. 2.

De Montaigne, Michel. "On Habit: and On Never Easily Changing a Traditional Law." The Complete Essays, edited and translated by M. A. Screech. Penguin Classics, 1993.

Wollstonecraft, Mary. "A Vindication of the Rights of Women." A Vindication of the Rights of Women and A Vindication of the Rights of Men, edited by Janet Todd. Oxford University Press, 2009, ch. 4.

De Montaigne, Michel. "On the Resemblance of Children to Their Fathers." The Complete Essays, edited and translated by M. A. Screech. Penguin Classics, 1993.

Paine, Thomas. "Common Sense." Rights of Man, Common Sense, and Other Political Writings, edited by Mark Philp. Oxford University Press, 2009, sect. 4.

Xenophanes. "Xenophanes of Colophon." The First Philosophers: The Presocratics and Sophists. Oxford World Classics, 2009, F16 - DK22 B110.

Carlyle, Thomas. "Goethe's Helena." The Works of Thomas Carlyle, edited by Henry Duff Traill. Vol. 26, Cambridge University Press, 2010.