• Art and Culture

  Most subjects at universities are taught for no other purpose than that they may be re-taught when the students become teachers.

  4.0 · 35 votes · 137 reads

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• Nature

  Much can be inferred about a man from his mistress: in her one beholds his weaknesses and his dreams.

  3.8 · 62 votes · 42 reads

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• Art and Culture

  Nowadays three witty turns of phrase and a lie make a writer.

  3.4 · 16 votes · 189 reads

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• Society

  Of all the inventions of man I doubt whether any was more easily accomplished than that of a Heaven.

  3.8 · 32 votes · 81 reads

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• Time

  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, a

  4.9 · 57 votes · 42 reads

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• Various

  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.

  3.9 · 53 votes · 194 reads

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• Defects

  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.

  4.5 · 28 votes · 85 reads

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• Thought and Reason

  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.

  3.6 · 43 votes · 147 reads

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• Thought and Reason

  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.

  3.2 · 43 votes · 122 reads

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• Nature

  That man is the noblest creature may also be inferred from the fact that no other creature has yet contested this claim.

  3.9 · 29 votes · 6 reads

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• Art and Culture

  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.

  4.0 · 20 votes · 166 reads

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• Virtues

  The noble simplicity in the works of nature only too often originates in the noble shortsightedness of him who observes it.

  3.4 · 27 votes · 2 reads

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• Nature

  The sure conviction that we could if we wanted to is the reason so many good minds are idle.

  3.1 · 30 votes · 144 reads

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• Feelings

  The worst thing you can possibly do is worrying and thinking about what you could have done.

  3.0 · 33 votes · 55 reads

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• Virtues

  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.

  4.0 · 48 votes · 175 reads

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• Art and Culture

  There are very many people who read simply to prevent themselves from thinking.

  3.5 · 12 votes · 31 reads

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• Society

  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.

  4.4 · 57 votes · 75 reads

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• Society

  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 the

  3.6 · 44 votes · 108 reads

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• Feelings

  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.

  3.2 · 22 votes · 80 reads

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• Various

  To err is human also in so far as animals seldom or never err, or at least only the cleverest of them do so.

  3.4 · 7 votes · 26 reads

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• Various

  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.

  4.1 · 51 votes · 161 reads

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• Thought and Reason

  We accumulate our opinions at an age when our understanding is at its weakest.

  4.6 · 22 votes · 95 reads

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• Virtues

  We are obliged to regard many of our original minds as crazy at least until we have become as clever as they are.

  4.3 · 59 votes · 54 reads

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• Virtues

  We have no words for speaking of wisdom to the stupid. He who understands the wise is wise already.

  3.2 · 19 votes · 0 reads

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• Thought and Reason

  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 ourse

  3.8 · 48 votes · 70 reads

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• Virtues

  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.

  4.5 · 28 votes · 128 reads

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• Nature

  What is called an acute knowledge of human nature is mostly nothing but the observer's own weaknesses reflected back from others.

  4.3 · 57 votes · 124 reads

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• Virtues

  What is the good of drawing conclusions from experience? I don't deny we sometimes draw the right conclusions, but don't we just as often draw the wrong ones?

  4.8 · 33 votes · 106 reads

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• Society

  What most clearly characterizes true freedom and its true employment is its misemployment.

  4.0 · 32 votes · 142 reads

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• Art and Culture

  With a pen in my hand I have successfully stormed bulwarks from which others armed with sword and excommunication have been repulsed.

  3.6 · 59 votes · 27 reads

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• Thought and Reason

  With most people disbelief in a thing is founded on a blind belief in some other thing.

  4.4 · 14 votes · 41 reads

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• Thought and Reason

  With the majority of people unbelief in one thing is founded on the blind belief in another.

  4.2 · 19 votes · 2 reads

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