“Men may change their climate, but they cannot change their nature. A man that goes out a fool cannot ride or sail himself into common sense.”
More from Joseph Addison on Philosophy
“The ways of heaven are dark and intricate;Puzzled in mazes, and perplext with errors.”
“A misery is not to be measured from the nature of the evil, but from the temper of the sufferer.”
“Nothing that is not a real crime makes a man appear so contemptible and little in the eyes of the world as inconsistency.”
“All of heaven we have below.”
“Mutability of temper and inconsistency with ourselves is the greatest weakness of human nature.”
“A man should always consider how much he has more than he wants.”
“No oppression is so heavy or lasting as that which is inflicted by the perversion and exorbitance of legal authority.”
“There is nothing that makes its way more directly into the soul than beauty.”
Others on Philosophy
Ludwig Wittgenstein
22 quotes“The logic of the world is prior to all truth and falsehood.”
Christopher Hitchens
22 quotes“How much vanity must be concealed – not too effectively at that – in order to pretend that one is the personal object of...”
Nietzsche
22 quotes“One does not hate as long as one has a low esteem of someone, but only when one esteems him as an equal or a superior.”
Carl Jung
21 quotes“The pendulum of the mind oscillates between sense and nonsense, not between right and wrong.”
Immanuel Kant
20 quotes“Morality is not the doctrine of how we may make ourselves happy, but how we may make ourselves worthy of happiness.”
Heraclitus
19 quotes“All things flow nothing abides.”
H. L. Mencken
17 quotes“We are here and it is now. Further than that, all human knowledge is moonshine.”
C.S. Lewis
15 quotes“[Consciousness] is either inexplicable illusion, or else revelation.”
Fyodor Dostoevsky
14 quotes“Consciousness is man's greatest misfortune, still I know that man loves it and will not exchange it for any satisfaction...”
Samuel Beckett
14 quotes“The end is in the beginning and yet you go on.”
Napoleon
14 quotes“Nothing is more difficult, and therefore more precious, than to be able to decide.”
Isaac Asimov
13 quotes“Society is much more easily soothed than one's own conscience.”