Thomas Malthus Quotes About Philosophy

Quotes about: Philosophy

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

  Thomas Malthus

  Philosophy, Economy, Theory

  Thomas Malthus (2015). “An Essay on the Principle of Population: Illustrated”, p.11, eKitap Projesi

• It accords with the most liberal spirit of philosophy to suppose that not a stone can fall, or a plant rise, without the immediate agency of divine power.

  Thomas Malthus

  Philosophy, Fall, Agency

  Thomas Malthus (2015). “An Essay on the Principle of Population: Illustrated”, p.62, eKitap Projesi

• The first business of philosophy is to account for things as they are; and till our theories will do this, they ought not to be the ground of any practical conclusion.

  Thomas Malthus

  Philosophy, Firsts, Theory

  Thomas Robert Malthus “An Essay on the Principle of Population, Or, a View of Its Past and Present Effects on Human Happiness: With an Inquiry Into Our Prospects Respecting the Future Removal Or Mitigation of the Evils which it Occasions”, Cambridge University Press

• If I saw a glass of wine repeatedly presented to a man, and he took no notice of it, I should be apt to think that he was blind or uncivil. A juster philosophy might teach me rather to think that my eyes deceived me, and that the offer was not really what I conceived it to be.

  Thomas Malthus

  Philosophy, Eye, Wine

  Thomas Malthus (2015). “An Essay on the Principle of Population: Illustrated”, p.12, eKitap Projesi

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