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To Grow Wiser Means To Learn To Know Better And Better The Faults To Which This Instrument With Which We Feel And Judge Can Be Subject.

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To Grow Wiser Means To Learn To Know Better And Better The Faults To Which This Instrument With Which We Feel And Judge Can Be Subject.

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

Sickness Is Mankind's Greatest Defect.

It Is In Most Cases More Difficult To Make Intelligent People Believe That You Are What You Are Not, Than Really To Become What You Would Appear To Be.

No People Are More Conceited Than Those Who Depict Their Own Feelings, Especially If They Happen To Have A Little Prose At Their Command For The Occasion.

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.

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

One Should Never Trust A Person Who, While Assuring You Of Something, Puts His Hands On His Heart.

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

Everyone Is Perfectly Willing To Learn From Unpleasant Experience - If Only The Damage Of The First Lesson Could Be Repaired.

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

Fools And Foolishness

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.

The Motives That Lead Us To Do Anything Might Be Arranged Like The Thirty-two Winds And Might Be Given Names On The Same Pattern: For Instance, "bread-bread-fame" Or "fame-fame-bread."

An Hour-glass Is A Reminder Not Only Of Time's Quick Flight, But Also Of The Dust To Which We Must At Last Return

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

Do Not Say Hypothesis, And Even Less Theory: Say Way Of Thinking.

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 Book Which Most Deserved To Be Banned Would Be A Catalog Of Banned Books.

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.

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.

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.

A Good Means To Discovery Is To Take Away Certain Parts Of A System To Find Out How The Rest Behaves.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

Do We Write Books So That They Shall Merely Be Read? Don't We Also Write Them For Employment In The Household? For One That Is Read From Start To Finish, Thousands Are Leafed Through, Other Thousands Lie Motionless, Others Are Jammed Against Mouseholes, Thrown At Rats, Others Are Stood On, Sat On, Drummed On, Have Gingerbread Baked On Them Or Are Used To Light Pipes.

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.

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.

First There Is A Time When We Believe Everything, Then For A Little While We Believe With Discrimination, Then We Believe Nothing Whatever, And Then We Believe Everything Again - And, Moreover, Give Reasons Why We Believe.

People Who Have Read A Good Deal Rarely Make Great Discoveries. I Do Not Say This In Excuse Of Laziness, But Because Invention Presupposes An Extensive Independent Contemplation Of Things.

Everyone Should Study At Least Enough Philosophy And Belles-lettres To Make His Sexual Experience More Delectable.

To Live When You Do Not Want To Is Dreadful, But It Would Be Even More Terrible To Be Immortal When You Did Not Want To Be. As Things Are, However, The Whole Ghastly Burden Is Suspended From Me By A Thread Which I Can Cut In Two With A Penny-knife.

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

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.

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

A Good Part Of The Fame Of Most Celebrated Men Is Due To The Shortsightedness Of Their Admirers

Cautiousness In Judgment Is Nowadays To Be Recommended To Each And Every One: If We Gained Only One Incontestable Truth Every Ten Years From Each Of Our Philosophical Writers The Harvest We Reaped Would Be Sufficient.

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

As Nations Improve, So Do Their Gods.

The Sure Conviction That We Could If We Wanted To Is The Reason So Many Good Minds Are Idle.

Everyone Who Has Ever Written Will Have Discovered That Writing Always Awakens Something Which, Though It Lay Within Us, We Failed Clearly To Recognize Before.

After All, Is Our Idea Of God Anything More Than Personified Incomprehensibility?

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.

Nothing Makes One Old So Quickly As The Ever-present Thought That One Is Growing Older.

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

It Is Too Bad If You Have To Do Everything Upon Reflection And Can't Do Anything From Early Habit.

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.

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.

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

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

Above All Things Expand The Frontiers Of Science: Without This The Rest Counts For Nothing.

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.

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

It Is With Epigrams As With Other Inventions; The Best Ones Annoy Us Because We Didn't Think Of Them Ourselves.

Those Who Never Have Time Do Least

He Who Says He Hates All Kinds Of Flattery, And Says So In Earnest, Has Undoubtedly Not As Yet Become Acquainted With All Kinds Of It, Whether In Substance Or In Form.

The Fruits Of Philosophy Are The Important Thing, Not The Philosophy Itself. When We Ask The Time, We Don't Want To Know How Watches Are Made.

Reading Means Borrowing.

What We Have To Discover For Ourselves Leaves Behind In Our Mind A Pathway That Can Be Used On Another Occasion.

People Who Never Have Any Time On Their Hands Are Those Who Do The Least.

Theologians Always Try To Turn The Bible Into A Book Without Common Sense.

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.

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

In Each Of Us There Is A Little Of All Of Us.

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

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

Erudition Can Produce Foliage Without Bearing Fruit.

The World Is A Body Common To All Men, Changes To It Bring About A Change In The Souls Of All Men Who Are Turned Towards That Part Of It At That Moment.

Where The Frontier Of Science Once Was Is Now The Centre.

Ask Yourself Always: How Can This Be Done Better?

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

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.

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

Ambition And Suspicion Always Go Together.

The Greeks Possessed A Knowledge Of Human Nature We Seem Hardly Able To Attain To Without Passing Through The Strengthening Hibernation Of A New Barbarism.

One Has To Do Something New In Order To See Something New.

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.

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

It Is A Sure Evidence Of A Good Book If It Pleases Us More And More As We Grow Older.

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

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

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

There Is Something In The Character Of Every Man Which Cannot Be Broken In--the Skeleton Of His Character; And To Try To Alter This Is Like Training A Sheep For Draught Purposes.

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 Wisdom Of Providence Is As Much Revealed In The Rarity Of Genius, As In The Circumstance That Not Everyone Is Deaf Or Blind.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

Everyone Is A Genius At Least Once A Year. The Real Geniuses Simply Have Their Bright Ideas Closer Together.

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

He Swallowed A Lot Of Wisdom, But All Of It Seems To Have Gone Down The Wrong Way.

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

He Who Understands The Wise Is Wise Already.

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

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

Too Much Is Unwholesome.

Barbaric Accuracy - Whimpering Humility.

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

We Are Obliged To Regard Many Of Our Original Minds As Crazy At Least Until We Have Become As Clever As They Are.

Is It Not Strange That Mankind Should So Willingly Battle For Religion And So Unwillingly Live According To Its Precepts?

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.

Virtue By Premeditation Isn't Worth Much.

I Am Grateful That I Am Not As Judgmental As All Those Censorious, Self-righteous People Around Me. In Each Of Us There Is A Little Of All Of Us.

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

Many Intelligent People, When About To Write . . . , Force On Their Minds A Certain Notion About Style, Just As They Screw Up Their Faces When They Sit For Their Portraits.

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.

With Prophecies The Commentator Is Often A More Important Man Than The Prophet.

The Excuses We Make To Ourselves When We Want To Do Something Are Excellent Material For Soliloquies, For They Are Rarely Made Except When We Are Alone, And Are Very Often Made Aloud.

The Celebrated Painter Gainsborough Got As Much Pleasure From Seeing Violins As From Hearing Them.

Universal Morality Is To Be Found In Little Everyday Penny-events Just As Much As In Great Ones.

The Fly That Doesn't Want To Be Swatted Is Most Secure When It Lights On The Fly-swatter.

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

Personality Flaws

Probably No Invention Came More Easily To Man Than Heaven.

Do Not Commence Your Exercises In Philosophy In Those Regions Where An Error Can Deliver You Over To The Executioner.

The Great Rule: If The Little Bit You Have Is Nothing Special In Itself, At Least Find A Way Of Saying It That Is A Little Bit Special.

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

The Rules Of Grammar Are Mere Human Statutes, Which Is Why When He Speaks Out Of The Possessed The Devil Himself Speaks Bad Latin.

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.

The Great Trick Of Regarding Small Departures From The Truth As The Truth Itself - On Which Is Founded The Entire Integral Calculus - Is Also The Basis Of Our Witty Speculations, Where The Whole Thing Would Often Collapse If We Considered The Departures With Philosophical Rigour.

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.

It Is Hardly To Be Believed How Spiritual Reflections When Mixed With A Little Physics Can Hold People's Attention And Give Them A Livelier Idea Of God Than Do The Often Ill-applied Examples Of His Wrath.

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

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

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

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

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

The Greater Part Of Human Misery Is Caused By Indolence.

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.

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

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

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

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

In Every Man There Is Something Of All Men.

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.

If Nature Be Regarded As The Teacher And We Poor Human Beings As Her Pupils, The Human Race Presents A Very Curious Picture. We All Sit Together At A Lecture And Possess The Necessary Principles For Understanding It, Yet We Always Pay More Attention To The Chatter Of Our Fellow Students Than To The Lecturer's Discourse. Or, If Our Neighbor Copies Something Down, We Sneak It From Him, Stealing What He Himself May Have Heard Imperfectly, And Add It To Our Own Errors Of Spelling And Opinion.

One Must Judge Men Not By Their Opinions, But By What Their Opinions Have Made Of Them.

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.

Marriage, In Contrast To The Flu, Starts With A Fever And Ends With The Chills.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

What Makes Our Poetry So Contemptible Nowadays Is Its Paucity Of Ideas. If You Want To Be Read, Invent. Who The Devil Wouldn't Like To Read Something New?

Much Reading Has Brought Upon Us A Learned Barbarism.

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

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.

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

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

Man Is To Be Found In Reason, God In The Passions.

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

A Good Method Of Discovery Is To Imagine Certain Members Of A System Removed And Then See How What Is Left Would Behave: For Example, Where Would We Be If Iron Were Absent From The World: This Is An Old Example.

Those Who Have Racked Their Brains To Discover New Proofs Have Perhaps Been Induced To Do So By A Compulsion They Could Not Quite Explain To Themselves. Instead Of Giving Us Their New Proofs They Should Have Explained To Us The Motivation That Constrained Them To Search For Them.

As I Take Up My Pen I Feel Myself So Full, So Equal To My Subject, And See My Book So Clearly Before Me In Embryo, I Would Almost Like To Try To Say It All In A Single Word.

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.

Diogenes, Filthily Attired, Paced Across The Splendid Carpets In Plato's Dwelling. Thus, Said He, Do I Trample On The Pride Of Plato. Yes, Plato Replied, But Only With Another Kind Of Pride.

There Are Very Many People Who Read Simply To Prevent Themselves From Thinking.

The Drive To Propagate Our Race Has Also Propagated A Lot Of Other Things

The More Experiences And Experiments Accumulate In The Exploration Of Nature, The More Precarious The Theories Become. But It Is Not Always Good To Discard Them Immediately On This Account. For Every Hypothesis Which Once Was Sound Was Useful For Thinking Of Previous Phenomena In The Proper Interrelations And For Keeping Them In Context. We Ought To Set Down Contradictory Experiences Separately, Until Enough Have Accumulated To Make Building A New Structure Worthwhile.

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

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

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.

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.

What You Have Been Obliged To Discover By Yourself Leaves A Path In Your Mind Which You Can Use Again When The Need Arises.

There Are People Who Believe Everything Is Sane And Sensible That Is Done With A Solemn Face. ... It Is No Great Art To Say Something Briefly When, Like Tacitus, One Has Something To Say; When One Has Nothing To Say, However, And None The Less Writes A Whole Book And Makes Truth ... Into A Liar - That I Call An Achievement.

Whenever He Composes A Critical Review, I Have Been Told, He Gets An Enormous Erection.

To Grow Wiser Means To Learn To Know Better And Better The Faults To Which This Instrument With Which We Feel And Judge Can Be Subject.

The Greatest Events Occur Without Intention Playing Any Part In Them; Chance Makes Good Mistakes And Undoes The Most Carefully Planned Undertaking. The World's Greatest Events Are Not Produced, They Happen.

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

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.

The American Who First Discovered Columbus Made A Bad Discovery.

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

He Who Is In Love With Himself Has At Least This Advantage - He Won't Encounter Many Rivals.

A Man Of Spirit Must Not Think Of The Word Difficulty As So Much As Existing. Away With It!

There Is Something In Our Minds Like Sunshine And The Weather, Which Is Not Under Our Control. When I Write, The Best Things Come To Me From I Know Not Where.

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

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

To Be Content With Life Or To Live Merrily, Rather All That Is Required Is That We Bestow On All Things Only A Fleeting, Superficial Glance; The More Thoughtful We Become The More Earnest We Grow.

Superficial Things

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

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

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

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

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.

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

Great Men Too Make Mistakes, And Many Among Them Do It So Often That One Is Almost Tempted To Call Them Little Men.

God Created Man In His Own Image, Says The Bible; Philosophers Reverse The Process: They Create God In Theirs.

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

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

The Most Heated Defenders Of A Science, Who Cannot Endure The Slightest Sneer At It, Are Commonly Those Who Have Not Made Very Much Progress In It And Are Secretly Aware Of This Defect.

There Are Many Who Believe That 'marriage Is Not A Word - It Is A Sentence!' Whether You Are Indeed 'married' Or If You Are 'single', I Am Sure That Funny Quotes On Weddings And Marriages Always Tend To Put A Wicked Smile To The Face. It Is Often Said That 'people Who Are Married Are Often Desperate To Get Out Of It And People Who Are Single Can't Wait To Get In!'

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

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