Optical Instrument Maker Inspirational Quotes (130)

Men who are ruled by reason desire nothing for themselves which they would not wish for all mankind.

Whatsoever is, is in God.

God is a thing that thinks.

He who hates anyone will endeavor to do him an injury, unless he fears that a greater injury will thereby accrue to himself on the other hand, he who loves anyone will, by the same law, seek to benefit him.

The safest way for a state is to lay down the rule that religion is comprised solely in the exercise of charity and justice, and that the rights of rulers in sacred, no less than in secular matters, should merely have to do with actions, but that every man should think what he likes and say what he thinks.

As though God had turned away from the wise, and written his decrees, not in the mind of man but in the entrails of beasts, or left them to be proclaimed by the inspiration and instinct of fools, madmen, and birds. Such is the unreason to which terror can drive mankind!

The most tyrannical of governments are those which make crimes of opinions, for everyone has an inalienable right to his thoughts.

Love is pleasure accompanied by the idea of an external cause, and hatred pain accompanied by the idea of an external cause.

The eternal wisdom of God ... has shown itself forth in all things, but chiefly in the mind of man, and most of all in Jesus Christ.

Let unswerving integrity be your watchword.