5 Henry, 1st Viscount Bolingbroke St John Quotes on Philosophy

Henry, 1st Viscount Bolingbroke St John quotes on philosophy

1. Truth lies within a little and certain compass, but error is immense.

2. I have read somewhere or other,-in Dionysius of Halicarnassus, I think,-that history is philosophy teaching by examples.

4. They (Thucydides and Xenophon) maintained the dignity of history.

5. It is the modest, not the presumptuous, inquirer who makes a real and safe progress in the discovery of divine truths. One follows Nature and Nature's God; that is, he follows God in his works and in his word.

10. The shortest and surest way of arriving at real knowledge is to unlearn the lessons we have been taught, to mount the first principles, and take nobody's word about them.