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One Use Of Dreams Is That, Unprejudiced By Our Often Forced And Artificial Reflections, They Represent The Impartial Outcome Of Our Entire Being.

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Georg C. Lichtenberg

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One Use Of Dreams Is That, Unprejudiced By Our Often Forced And Artificial Reflections, They Represent The Impartial Outcome Of Our Entire Being.

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Be Attentive, Feel Nothing In Vain, Measure And Compare: This Is The Whole Law Of Philosophy.

Just As There Are Polysyllabic Words That Say Very Little, So There Are Also Monosyllabic Words Of Infinite Meaning.

You Believe I Run After The Strange Because I Do Not Know The Beautiful; No, It Is Because You Do Not Know The Beautiful That I Seek The Strange.

Some People Read Only Because They Are Too Lazy To Think.

It Often Takes More Courage To Change One's Opinion Than To Stick To It.

We Now Possess Four Principles Of Morality: 1) A Philosophical: Do Good For Its Own Sake, Out Of Respect For The Law; 2) A Religious: Do Good Because It Is God's Will, Out Of Love Of God; 3) A Human: Do Good Because It Will Promote Your Happiness, Out Of Self-love; 4) A Political: Do Good Because It Will Promote The Welfare Of The Society Of Which You Are A Part, Out Of Love Of Society Having Regard To Yourself. But Is This Not All One Single Principle, Only Viewed From Different Sides?

With A Pen In My Hand I Have Successfully Stormed Bulwarks From Which Others Armed With Sword And Excommunication Have Been Repulsed.

Nothing Can Contribute More To Peace Of Soul Than The Lack Of Any Opinion Whatever.

Reading Means Borrowing.

The "second Sight" Possessed By The Highlanders In Scotland Is Actually A Foreknowledge Of Future Events. I Believe They Possess This Gift Because They Don't Wear Trousers.

As The Few Adepts In Such Things Well Know, Universal Morality Is To Be Found In Little Everyday Penny-events Just As Much As In Great Ones. There Is So Much Goodness And Ingenuity In A Raindrop That An Apothecary Wouldn't Let It Go For Less Than Half-a-crown.

A Vacuum Of Ideas Affects People Differently Than A Vacuum Of Air, Otherwise Readers Of Books Would Be Constantly Collapsing.

It Is A Great Shame; Most Of Our Words Are Misused Tools / Which Often Still Smell Of The Mud In Which Previous Owners / Desecrated Them.

It Is Almost Impossible To Carry The Torch Of Truth Through A Crowd Without Singeing Somebody's Beard.

The Feeling Of Health Can Only Be Gained By Sickness.

A Book Which, Above All Others In The World, Should Be Forbidden, Is A Catalogue Of Forbidden Books.

It Is Almost Everywhere The Case That Soon After It Is Begotten The Greater Part Of Human Wisdom Is Laid To Rest In Repositories.

If This Is Philosophy It Is At Any Rate A Philosophy That Is Not In Its Right Mind.

To Make Astute People Believe One Is What One Is Not Is, In Most Cases, Harder Than Actually To Become What One Wishes To Appear.

In The World We Live In, One Fool Makes Many Fools, But One Sage Only A Few Sages.

I Look Upon Book Reviews As An Infantile Disease Which New-born Books Are Subject To.

A Writer Who Wishes To Be Read By Posterity Must Not Be Averse To Putting Hints Which Might Give Rise To Whole Books, Or Ideas For Learned Discussions, In Some Corner Of A Chapter So That One Should Think He Can Afford To Throw Them Away By The Thousand.

Man Is So Perfectable And Corruptible He Can Become A Fool Through Good Sense.

Fools And Foolishness

Delight At Having Understood A Very Abstract And Obscure System Leads Most People To Believe In The Truth Of What It Demonstrates.

I Have Often Noticed That When People Come To Understand A Mathematical Proposition In Some Other Way Than That Of The Ordinary Demonstration, They Promptly Say, "oh, I See. That's How It Must Be." This Is A Sign That They Explain It To Themselves From Within Their Own System.

Many Are Less Fortunate Than You' May Not Be A Roof To Live Under, But It Will Serve To Retire Beneath In The Event Of A Shower.

What Is Called An Acute Knowledge Of Human Nature Is Mostly Nothing But The Observer's Own Weaknesses Reflected Back From Others.

The Natural Scientists Of The Previous Age Knew Less Than We Do And Believed They Were Very Close To The Goal: We Have Taken Very Great Steps In Its Direction And Now Discover We Are Still Very Far Away From It. With The Most Rational Philosophers An Increase In Their Knowledge Is Always Attended By An Increased Conviction Of Their Ignorance.

God Creates The Animals, Man Creates Himself.

A Sure Sign Of A Good Book Is That You Like It More The Older You Get.

People Often Become Scholars For The Same Reason They Become Soldiers: Simply Because They Are Unfit For Any Other Station. Their Right Hand Has To Earn Them A Livelihood; One Might Say They Lie Down Like Bears In Winter And Seek Sustenance From Their Paws.

Man Is Perhaps Half Mind And Half Matter In The Same Way As The Polyp Is Half Plant And Half Animal. The Strangest Creatures Are Always Found On The Border Lines Of Species.

So-called Professional Mathematicians Have, In Their Reliance On The Relative Incapacity Of The Rest Of Mankind, Acquired For Themselves A Reputation For Profundity Very Similar To The Reputation For Sanctity Possessed By Theologians.

A Donkey Appears To Me Like A Horse Translated Into Dutch.

They Do Not Think, Therefore They Are Not.

Man Loves Company - Even If It Is Only That Of A Small Burning Candle.

A Good Metaphor Is Something Even The Police Should Keep An Eye On.

There Are People Who Can Believe Anything They Wish. What Lucky Creatures!

If We Thought More For Ourselves We Would Have Very Many More Bad Books And Very Many More Good Ones.

To Receive Applause For Works Which Do Not Demand All Our Powers Hinders Our Advance Towards A Perfecting Of Our Spirit. It Usually Means That Thereafter We Stand Still.

He Who Knows Himself Properly Can Very Soon Learn To Know All Other Men. It Is All Reflection.

Nowadays Three Witty Turns Of Phrase And A Lie Make A Writer.

The Fear Of Death Which Is Imprinted In Men Is At The Same Time A Great Expedient Heaven Employs To Hinder Them From Many Misdeeds: Many Things Are Left Undone For Fear Of Imperiling One's Life Or Health.

It Not Seldom Happens That In The Purposeless Rovings And Wanderings Of The Imagination We Hunt Down Such Game As Can Be Put To Use By Our Purposeful Philosophy In Its Well-ordered Household.

It Is Astonishing How Much The Word Infinitely Is Misused: Everything Is Infinitely More Beautiful, Infinitely Better, Etc. The Concept Must Have Something Pleasing About It, Or Its Misuse Could Not Have Become So General.

Pain Warns Us Not To Exert Our Limbs To The Point Of Breaking Them. How Much Knowledge Would We Not Need To Recognize This By The Exercise Of Mere Reason.

To See Every Day How People Get The Name 'genius' Just As The Wood-lice In The Cellar The Name 'millipede'-not Because They Have That Many Feet, But Because Most People Don't Want To Count To 14-this Has Had The Result That I Don't Believe Anyone Any More Without Checking.

If People Should Ever Start To Do Only What Is Necessary Millions Would Die Of Hunger.

If You Are Going To Build Something In The Air It Is Always Better To Build Castles Than Houses Of Cards.

Man Can Acquire Accomplishments Or He Can Become An Animal, Whichever He Wants. God Makes The Animals, Man Makes Himself.

Good Taste Is Either That Which Agrees With My Taste Or That Which Subjects Itself To The Rule Of Reason. From This We Can See How Useful It Is To Employ Reason In Seeking Out The Laws Of Taste.

One Can Live In This World On Soothsaying But Not On Truth Saying.

One Cannot Demand Of A Scholar That He Show Himself A Scholar Everywhere In Society, But The Whole Tenor Of His Behavior Must None The Less Betray The Thinker, He Must Always Be Instructive, His Way Of Judging A Thing Must Even In The Smallest Matters Be Such That People Can See What It Will Amount To When, Quietly And Self-collected, He Puts This Power To Scholarly Use.

Too Much Is Unwholesome.

Bad Writers Are Those Who Try To Express Their Own Feeble Ideas In The Language Of Good Ones.

To Many People Virtue Consists Chiefly In Repenting Faults, Not In Avoiding Them.

Knowledge Acquired Too Rapidly And Without Being Personally Supplemented Is Never Very Productive.

The Thoughts Written On The Walls Of Madhouses By Their Inmates Might Be Worth Publicizing.

Much Can Be Inferred About A Man From His Mistress: In Her One Beholds His Weaknesses And His Dreams.

Everyone Is A Genius At Least Once A Year.

A Person Reveals His Character By Nothing So Clearly As The Joke He Resents.

Personality Flaws

The Writer Who Cannot Sometimes Throw Away A Thought About Which Another Man Would Have Written Dissertations, Without Worry Whether Or Not The Reader Will Find It, Will Never Become A Great Writer.

Those Who Never Have Time Do Least

A Schoolteacher Or Professor Cannot Educate Individuals, He Educates Only Species.

One Is Rarely An Impulsive Innovator After The Age Of Sixty, But One Can Still Be A Very Fine Orderly And Inventive Thinker. One Rarely Procreates Children At That Age, But One Is All The More Skilled At Educating Those Who Have Already Been Procreated, And Education Is Procreation Of Another Kind.

Nothing Is More Conducive To Peace Of Mind Than Not Having Any Opinion At All.

One Of The Greatest And Also The Commonest Of Faults Is For Men To Believe That, Because They Never Hear Their Shortcomings Spoken Of, Or Read About Them In Cold Print, Others Can Have No Knowledge Of Them.

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What A Blessing It Would Be If We Could Open And Shut Our Ears...as Easily As We Open And Shut Our Eyes.

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The Pleasures Of The Imagination Are As It Were Only Drawings And Models Which Are Played With By Poor People Who Cannot Afford The Real Thing.

I Ceased In The Year 1764 To Believe That One Can Convince One’s Opponents With Arguments Printed In Books. It Is Not To Do That, Therefore, That I Have Taken Up My Pen, But Merely So As To Annoy Them, And To Bestow Strength And Courage On Those On Our Own Side, And To Make It Known To The Others That They Have Not Convinced Us.

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How Did Mankind Ever Come By The Idea Of Liberty? What A Grand Thought It Was!

How Few Friends Would Remain Friends If Each Could See The Sentiments Of The Other In Their Entirety.

Men Still Have To Be Governed By Deception.

Even Truth Needs To Be Clad In New Garments If It Is To Appeal To A New Age.

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Actual Aristocracy Cannot Be Abolished By Any Law: All The Law Can Do Is Decree How It Is To Be Imparted And Who Is To Acquire It.

What Most Clearly Characterizes True Freedom And Its True Employment Is Its Misemployment.

Delicacy In Woman Is Strength.

Just As The Performance Of The Vilest And Most Wicked Deeds Requires Spirit And Talent, So Even The Greatest Demand A Certain Insensitivity Which Under Other Circumstances We Would Call Stupidity.

Nothing Puts A Greater Obstacle In The Way Of The Progress Of Knowledge Than Thinking That One Knows What One Does Not Yet Know.

Brevity: To Say At Once Whatever Is To Be Said.

If All Mankind Were Suddenly To Practice Honesty, Many Thousands Of People Would Be Sure To Starve.

Man Is A Masterpiece Of Creation . . .

The Greatest Things In The World Are Brought About By Other Things Which We Count As Nothing: Little Causes We Overlook But Which At Length Accumulate.

The Ordinary Man Is Ruined By The Flesh Lusting Against The Spirit; The Scholar By The Spirit Lusting Too Much Against The Flesh.

What We Are Able To Judge With Feeling Is Very Little; The Rest Is All Prejudice And Complaisance.

It Is Said That Truth Comes From The Mouths Of Fools And Children: I Wish Every Good Mind Which Feels An Inclination For Satire Would Reflect That The Finest Satirist Always Has Something Of Both In Him.

We Can See Nothing Whatever Of The Soul Unless It Is Visible In The Expression Of The Countenance; One Might Call The Faces At A Large Assembly Of People A History Of The Human Soul Written In A Kind Of Chinese Ideograms.

People Nowadays Have Such High Hopes Of America And The Political Conditions Obtaining There That One Might Say The Desires, At Least The Secret Desires, Of All Enlightened Europeans Are Deflected To The West, Like Our Magnetic Needles.

I Believe That Man Is In The Last Resort So Free A Being That His Right To Be What He Believes Himself To Be Cannot Be Contested.

Some People Come By The Name Of Genius In The Same Way That Certain Insects Come By The Name Of Centipede -- Not Because They Have A Hundred Feet, But Because Most People Can't Count Above 14.

If It Were True What In The End Would Be Gained? Nothing But Another Truth. Is This Such A Mighty Advantage? We Have Enough Old Truths Still To Digest, And Even These We Would Be Quite Unable To Endure If We Did Not Sometimes Flavor Them With Lies.

Some Theories Are Good For Nothing Except To Be Argued About.

Human Pride Is A Strange Thing; It Cannot Easily Be Suppressed, And If You Stop Up Hole A Will Peep Forth Again In A Twinkling From Another Hole B, And If This Is Closed It Is Ready To Come Out At Hole C, And So On.

When An Acquaintance Goes By I Often Step Back From My Window, Not So Much To Spare Him The Effort Of Acknowledging Me As To Spare Myself The Embarrassment Of Seeing That He Has Not Done So.

It Is Strange That Only Extraordinary Men Make The Discoveries, Which Later Appear So Easy And Simple.

Sickness Is Mankind's Greatest Defect.

Perhaps In Time The So-called Dark Ages Will Be Thought Of As Including Our Own.

Deliberate Virtue Is Never Worth Much: The Virtue Of Feeling Or Habit Is The Thing.

Be Wary Of Passing The Judgment: Obscure. To Find Something Obscure Poses No Difficult, Elephants And Poodles Find Many Things Obscure.

There Are People Who Possess Not So Much Genius As A Certain Talent For Perceiving The Desires Of The Century, Or Even Of The Decade, Before It Has Done So Itself.

A Man Has Virtues Enough If He Deserves Pardon For His Faults On Account Of Them.

The Girl Who Reveals Herself Heart And Soul To Her Friend Reveals The Secrets Of The Entire Sex; For Every Girl Is The Guardian Of The Feminine Mysteries.

Courage, Garrulousness And The Mob Are On Our Side. What More Do We Want?

There Can Hardly Be A Stranger Commodity In The World Than Books. Printed By People Who Don't Understand Them; Sold By People Who Don't Understand Them; Bound, Criticized And Read By People Who Don't Understand Them; And Now Even Written By People Who Don't Understand Them.

The Most Perfect Ape Cannot Draw An Ape; Only Man Can Do That; But, Likewise, Only Man Regards The Ability To Do This As A Sign Of Superiority.

There Is No More Important Rule Of Conduct In The World Than This: Attach Yourself As Much As You Can To People Who Are Abler Than You And Yet Not So Very Different That You Cannot Understand Them.

It Is Certainly Not A Matter Of Indifference Whether I Learn Something Without Effort Or Finally Arrive At It Myself Through My System Of Thought. In The Latter Case Everything Has Roots, In The Former It Is Merely Superficial.

Nowadays Beautiful Women Are Counted Among The Talents Of Their Husbands.

To Read Means To Borrow; To Create Out Of One S Readings Is Paying Off One's Debts.

Most Men Of Education Are More Superstitious Than They Admit - Nay, Than They Think.

Prejudices Are So To Speak The Mechanical Instincts Of Men: Through Their Prejudices They Do Without Any Effort Many Things They Would Find Too Difficult To Think Through To The Point Of Resolving To Do Them.

The Journalists Have Constructed For Themselves A Little Wooden Chapel, Which They Also Call The Temple Of Fame, In Which They Put Up And Take Down Portraits All Day Long And Make Such A Hammering You Can't Hear Yourself Speak.

Every Man Has His Moral Backside Which He Refrains From Showing Unless He Has To And Keeps Covered As Long As Possible With The Trousers Of Decorum.

One Of The Greatest Creations Of The Human Mind Is The Art Of Reviewing Books Without Having Read Them.

Honor Is Infinitely More Valuable Than Positions Of Honor.

The Man Was Such An Intellectual He Was Of Almost No Use.

I Am Always Grieved When A Man Of Real Talent Dies. The World Needs Such Men More Than Heaven Does.

I Would Give Something To Know For Whose Sake Precisely Those Deeds Were Really Done Which Report Says Were Done For The Fatherland.

There Is No Greater Impediment To Progress In The Sciences Than The Desire To See It Take Place Too Quickly.

If All Else Fails, The Character Of A Man Can Be Recognized By Nothing So Surely As By A Jest Which He Takes Badly.

Doubt Everything At Least Once, Even The Sentence "two Times Two Is Four."

Just As We Outgrow A Pair Of Trousers, We Outgrow Acquaintances, Libraries, Principles, Etc., At Times Before They're Worn Out And Times - And This Is The Worst Of All - Before We Have New Ones.

Astronomy Is Perhaps The Science Whose Discoveries Owe Least To Chance, In Which Human Understanding Appears In Its Whole Magnitude, And Through Which Man Can Best Learn How Small He Is.

There Is A Great Difference Between Believing In Something And Believing In It Again.

Believing In Something

We Often Have Need Of A Profound Philosophy To Restore To Our Feelings Their Original State Of Innocence, To Find Our Way Out Of The Rubble Of Things Alien To Us, To Begin To Feel For Ourselves And To Speak Ourselves, And I Might Almost Say To Exist Ourselves.

Man Is Always Partial And Is Quite Right To Be. Even Impartiality Is Partial.

Of All The Inventions Of Man I Doubt Whether Any Was More Easily Accomplished Than That Of A Heaven.

The Lower Classes Of Men, Though They Do Not Think It Worthwhile To Record What They Perceive, Nevertheless Perceive Everything That Is Worth Noting; The Difference Between Them And A Man Of Learning Often Consists In Nothing More Than The Latter's Facility For Expression.

A Handful Of Soldiers Is Always Better Than A Mouthful Of Arguments.

When A Book And A Head Collide And A Hollow Sound Is Heard, Must It Always Have Come From The Book?

We Have No Words For Speaking Of Wisdom To The Stupid. He Who Understands The Wise Is Wise Already.

Before One Blames, One Should Always Find Out Whether One Cannot Excuse.

I Am Convinced We Do Not Only Love Ourselves In Others But Hate Ourselves In Others Too.

If Another Messiah Was Born He Could Hardly Do So Much Good As The Printing-press.

Libraries Can In General Be Too Narrow Or Too Wide For The Soul.

The Highest Point To Which A Weak But Experienced Mind Can Rise Is Detecting The Weakness Of Better Men.

A Book Is A Mirror: If An Ape Looks Into It An Apostle Is Hardly Likely To Look Out.

Truly, Men Make Too Little Use Of Their Lives; And So It Is No Wonder That The World Should Still Be In Such A Poor Way.

What I Do Not Like About Our Definitions Of Genius Is That There Is In Them Nothing Of The Day Of Judgment, Nothing Of Resounding Through Eternity And Nothing Of The Footsteps Of The Almighty.

We Have To Believe That Everything Has A Cause, As The Spider Spins Its Web In Order To Catch Flies. But It Does This Before It Knows There Are Such Things As Flies.

The Proof That Man Is The Noblest Of All Creatures Is That No Other Creature Has Ever Denied It.

You Can Make A Good Living From Soothsaying But Not From Truthsaying.

Propositions On Which All Men Are In Agreement Are True: If They Are Not True We Have No Truth At All.

Before One Blames, One Should Always Find Out Whether One Cannot Excuse. To Discover Little Faults Has Been Always The Particularity Of Such Brains That Are A Little Or Not At All Above The Average. The Superior Ones Keep Quiet Or Say Something Against The Whole And The Great Minds Transform Without Blaming.

Never Undertake Anything Unless You Have The Heart To Ask Heaven's Blessing On Your Undertaking.

To Do Just The Opposite Is Also A Form Of Imitation.

The Construction Of The Universe Is Certainly Very Much Easier To Explain Than Is That Of The Plant.

Most Subjects At Universities Are Taught For No Other Purpose Than That They May Be Re-taught When The Students Become Teachers.

Some People Feel With Their Heads And Think With Their Hearts.

He Who Says He Hates Every Kind Of Flattery, And Says It In Earnest, Certainly Does Not Yet Know Every Kind Of Flattery.

A Man Always Writes Absolutely Well Whenever He Writes In His Own Manner, But The Wigmaker Who Tries To Write Like Gellert ... Writes Badly.

We Say That Someone Occupies An Official Position, Whereas It Is The Official Position That Occupies Him.

Here Take Back The Stuff That I Am, Nature, Knead It Back Into The Dough Of Being, Make Of Me A Bush, A Cloud, Whatever You Will, Even A Man, Only No Longer Make Me.

Man Is A Masterpiece Of Creation, If Only Because No Amount Of Determinism Can Prevent Him From Believing That He Acts As A Free Being.

If Countries Were Named After The Words You First Hear When You Go There, England Would Have To Be Called Damn It.

The Human Tendency To Regard Little Things As Important Has Produced Very Many Great Things.

To Write Brashly About Some Things, It Is Almost Necessary Not To Know Much About Them.

Reason Now Gazes Above The Realm Of The Dark But Warm Feelings As The Alpine Peaks Do Above The Clouds. They Behold The Sun More Clearly And Distinctly, But They Are Cold And Unfruitful.

He Marvelled At The Fact That The Cats Had Two Holes Cut In Their Fur At Precisely The Spot Where Their Eyes Were.

Perhaps Pure Reason Without Heart Would Never Have Thought Of God.

Perseverance Can Lend The Appearance Of Dignity And Grandeur To Many Actions, Just As Silence In Company Affords Wisdom And Apparent Intelligence To A Stupid Person.

If It Is Permissible To Write Plays That Are Not Intended To Be Seen, I Should Like To See Who Can Prevent Me From Writing A Book No One Can Read.

It Is In The Gift For Employing All The Vicissitudes Of Life To One's Own Advantage And To That Of One's Craft That A Large Part Of Genius Consists.

We Judge Nothing So Hastily As Character, And Yet There Is Nothing Over Which We Should Be More Cautious.... I Have Always Found That The So-called Bad People Improve On Closer Acquaintance, While The Good Fall Off.

I Cannot Say Whether Things Will Get Better If We Change; What I Can Say Is They Must Change If They Are To Get Better.

It Is A Question Whether, When We Break A Murderer On The Wheel, We Do Not Fall Into The Error A Child Makes When It Hits The Chair It Has Bumped Into.

I Forget Most Of What I Read, Just As I Do Most Of What I Have Eaten, But I Know That Both Contribute No Less To The Conservation Of My Mind And My Body On That Account.

There Are People Who Think That Everything One Does With A Serious Face Is Sensible.

I Have Never Yet Met Anyone Who Did Not Think It Was An Agreeable Sensation To Cut Tinfoil With Scissors.

With God Thoughts Are Colors, With Us They Are Pigments-even The Most Abstract One May Be Accompanied By Physical Pain.

Never Trust A Man Who Lays His Hand On His Heart When He Assures You Of Anything.

We Accumulate Our Opinions At An Age When Our Understanding Is At Its Weakest.

As Nations Improve, So Do Their Gods.

It Thunders, Howls, Roars, Hisses, Whistles, Blusters, Hums, Growls, Rumbles, Squeaks, Groans, Sings, Crackles, Cracks, Rattles, Flickers, Clicks, Snarls, Tumbles, Whimpers, Whines, Rustles, Murmurs, Crashes, Clucks, To Gurgle, Tinkles, Blows, Snores, Claps, To Lisp, To Cough, It Boils, To Scream, To Weep, To Sob, To Croak, To Stutter, To Lisp, To Coo, To Breathe, To Clash, To Bleat, To Neigh, To Grumble, To Scrape, To Bubble. These Words, And Others Like Them, Which Express Sounds Are More Than Mere Symbols: They Are A Kind Of Hieroglyphics For The Ear.

To Err Is Human Also In So Far As Animals Seldom Or Never Err, Or At Least Only The Cleverest Of Them Do So.

Many A Man Who Is Willing To Be Shot For His Belief In A Miracle Would Have Doubted, Had He Been Present At The Miracle Itself.

One Might Call Habit A Moral Friction: Something That Prevents The Mind From Gliding Over Things But Connects It With Them And Makes It Hard For It To Free Itself From Them.

Honest Unaffected Distrust Of Human Abilities Under All Circumstances Is The Surest Sign Of Strength Of Mind.

Much Reading Has Brought Upon Us A Learned Barbarism.

There Were Honest People Long Before There Were Christians And There Are, God Be Praised, Still Honest People Where There Are No Christians. It Could Therefore Easily Be Possible That People Are Christians Because True Christianity Corresponds To What They Would Have Been Even If Christianity Did Not Exist.

Never Undertake Anything For Which You Wouldn't Have The Courage To Ask The Blessings Of Heaven.

If Brandy Was Made Out Of Sparrows There Would Soon Be No Sparrows.

Do Not Take Too Artificial A View Of Mankind But Judge Them From A Natural Standpoint, Deeming Them Neither Over Good Nor Over Bad.

The Course Of The Seasons Is A Piece Of Clockwork, With A Cuckoo To Call When It Is Spring.

It Is We Who Are The Measure Of What Is Strange And Miraculous: If We Sought A Universal Measure The Strange And Miraculous Would Not Occur And All Things Would Be Equal.

The Greater Part Of Human Misery Is Caused By Indolence.

Probably No Invention Came More Easily To Man Than Heaven.

Nothing Reveals A Man's Character Better Than The Kind Of Joke At Which He Takes Offense.

I Forget The Greater Part Of What I Read, But All The Same It Nourishes My Mind.

Is It So Unjust That A Man Should Leave The World By The Same Gate Through Which He Entered It?

The Grave Is Still The Best Shelter Against The Storms Of Destiny.

If An Angel Were To Tell Us About His Philosophy, I Believe Many Of His Statements Might Well Sound Like '2 X 2= 13'.

One's First Step In Wisdom Is To Question Everything - And One's Last Is To Come To Terms With Everything.

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