It is an acknowledged truth in philosophy that a just theory will always be confirmed by experiment.

A writer may tell me that he thinks man will ultimately become an ostrich. I cannot properly contradict him.

Each pursues his own theory, little solicitous to correct or improve it by an attention to what is advanced by his opponents.

I think it will be found that experience, the true source and foundation of all knowledge, invariably confirms its truth.

No limits whatever are placed to the productions of the earth; they may increase forever.

The power of population is indefinitely greater than the power in the earth to produce subsistence for man.

The main peculiarity which distinguishes man from other animals is the means of his support-the power which he possesses of very greatly increasing these means.

The friend of the present order of things condemns all political speculations in the gross.

It is an acknowledged truth in philosophy that a just theory will always be confirmed by experiment.

Population, when unchecked, goes on doubling itself every 25 years or increases in a geometrical ratio.

In a state therefore of great equality and virtue, where pure and simple manners prevailed, the increase of the human species would evidently be much greater than any increase that has been hitherto known.

The ordeal of virtue is to resist all temptation to evil.

The constant effort towards population, which is found even in the most vicious societies, increases the number of people before the means of subsistence are increased.

Population, when unchecked, increases in a geometrical ratio.

The rich, by unfair combinations, contribute frequently to prolong a season of distress among the poor.

A great emigration necessarily implies unhappiness of some kind or other in the country that is deserted.

The great and unlooked for discoveries that have taken place of late years have all concurred to lead many men into the opinion that we were touching on a period big with the most important changes.

The histories of mankind are histories only of the higher classes.

The superior power of population cannot be checked without producing misery or vice.

I do not know that any writer has supposed that on this earth man will ultimately be able to live without food.

The most baleful mischiefs may be expected from the unmanly conduct of not daring to face truth because it is unpleasing.

The world's population will multiply more rapidly than the available food supply.

When he was twenty-three or twenty-four my father began to learn German and read philosophy in his spare hours, which did not look as though he were destined to remain long on board ship!

I am now convinced that theoretical physics is actually philosophy.

There is no need for temples, no need for complicated philosophies. My brain and my heart are my temples; my philosophy is kindness.

Philosophy finds it an easy matter to vanquish past and future evils, but the present are commonly too hard for it.

In Hungary, acting is a career for which one fits himself as earnestly as one studies for a degree in medicine, law, or philosophy.

I'm working harder than ever now, and I'm putting on my pants the same as I always have. I just get up every day and try to do a little better than the day before, and that is to run a great restaurant with great food, great wine, and great service. That's my philosophy.

It's clear to me that there is no good reason for many philosophy books to sound as complicated as they do.

Philosophy begins in wonder. And, at the end, when philosophic thought has done its best, the wonder remains.

I'd like to do policy and I'd like to do philosophy, I'd like to be able to get into the depth, into the meat of the argument - that's the kind of stuff I want to do.

Aphorisms are the true form of the universal philosophy.

We live in a world in which politics has replaced philosophy.

I never considered a difference of opinion in politics, in religion, in philosophy, as cause for withdrawing from a friend.

I have two children. I have a daughter 29, and a daughter four. They are 25 years apart, so you speak about generations and I must tell you, I have a philosophy and that is every 25 years I'm going to sire another child.

What is your aim in philosophy? To show the fly the way out of the fly-bottle.

Even if we don't know it or aren't aware of it, politics and philosophy are really what make our up lives.

There is no religion in which everyday life is not considered a prison; there is no philosophy or ideology that does not think that we live in alienation.

In philosophy, it is not the attainment of the goal that matters, it is the things that are met along the way.

Punk rock really came out of N.Y. as a philosophy before the groups were ever recorded. I had a kind-of intellectual interest in the idea of creating a new scene that could be a grassroots thing.

We have to make philosophy itself an object of philosophical concern.

When truth has no burning, then it is philosophy, when it gets burning from the heart, it becomes poetry.

It's almost like a lot of black people in America, a lot of young black men, are born with this cloud over their heads. It's their penitentiary cloud, this philosophy we all have, that it's harder for us.

Skepticism is the first step on the road to philosophy.

The proverbial philosophy of a people helps us to understand more about them than any other kind of literature.

However, while the Nazi barbarians and their collaborators threatened the entire world, I could not accept his philosophy and, after several earlier attempts, was finally accepted into the Canadian Infantry Corps during the last year of World War II.

Kant introduced the concept of the negative into philosophy. Would it not also be worthwhile to try to introduce the concept of the positive into philosophy?

My philosophy was, if I just do good work, someone will like it enough to employ me. It never made me famous. And I'm way, way too old now, mate. That boat's sailed.

I have a new philosophy. I'm only going to dread one day at a time.