Thomas Jefferson Philosophical Quotes — Page 20

Politician, Founding Father

Philosophical

“I am satisfied, and sufficiently occupied with the things which are, without tormenting or troubling myself about those which may indeed be, but of which I have no evidence.”

May Religion Evidence

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Thomas Jefferson

Politician, Founding Father

Philosophical

“We are afraid of the known and afraid of the unknown. That is our daily life and in that there is no hope, and therefore every form of philosophy, every form of theological concept, is merely an escape from the actual reality of what is. All outward forms of change brought about by wars, revolutions, reformations, laws and ideologies have failed completely to change the basic nature of man and therefore of society.”

Philosophy Death Atheist

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Philosophical

“It can never be too often repeated, that the time for fixing every essential right on a legal basis is while our rulers are honest, and ourselves united.”

Essentials Revolution Fixing

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Philosophical

“It is a principle that the right to a thing gives a right to the means without which it could not be used, that is to say, that the means follow their end.”

Mean Giving Principles

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Philosophical

“The construction applied . . . to those parts of the Constitution of the United States which delegate Congress a power . . . ought not to be construed as themselves to give unlimited powers, nor a part to be so taken as to destroy the whole residue of that instrument.”

Giving Taken United States

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Philosophical

“The movements of nature are in a never ending circle. The animal species which has once been put into a train of motion, is still probably moving in that train. For if one link in nature's chain might be lost, another and another might be lost, till this whole system of things should evanish by piece-meal; a conclusion not warranted by the local disappearance of one or two species of animals, and opposed by the thousands and thousands of instances of the renovating power constantly exercised by nature for the reproduction of all her subjects, animal, vegetable, and mineral.”

Moving Animal Nature

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Philosophical

“I suppose, indeed, that in public life, a man whose political principles have any decided character and who has energy enough to give them effect must always expect to encounter political hostility from those of adverse principles.”

Men Giving Character

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Philosophical

“To the corruptions of Christianity I am indeed opposed; but not to the genuine precepts of Jesus himself.”

Jesus Christianity Corruption

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Philosophical

“Religion is a subject on which I have ever been most scrupulously reserved. I have considered it as a matter between every man and his Maker, in which no other, and far less the public, had a right to intermeddle.”

Men Matter Religion

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Philosophical

“The government created by this compact was not made the exclusive or final judge of the extent of the powers delegated to itself; since that would have made its discretion, and not the Constitution, the measure of its powers.”

Government Judging Finals

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Philosophical

“In a republican nation whose citizens are to be led by reason and persuasion and not by force, the art of reasoning becomes of first importance.”

Art Liberty Citizens

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Philosophical

“If the body be feeble, the mind will not be strong.”

Mind Strong Yoga

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Thomas Jefferson — Philosophical Quotes

Thomas Jefferson Quotes