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- 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…
- 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…
- It is too bad if you have to do everything upon reflection and can't do anything from early habit.
- 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…
- 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…
- 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…
- 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.
- The great trick of regarding small departures from the truth as the truth itself - on which is founded the entire integral calculus - is…
- There exists a species of transcendental ventriloquism by means of which men can be made to believe that something said on earth comes from Heaven.
- 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,…
- 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…
- The celebrated painter Gainsborough got as much pleasure from seeing violins as from hearing them.
- You can make a good living from soothsaying but not from truthsaying.
- Everyone is perfectly willing to learn from unpleasant experience - if only the damage of the first lesson could be repaired.
- As soon as you know a man to be blind, you imagine that you can see it from his back.
- 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…
- 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…
- That man is the noblest creature may also be inferred from the fact that no other creature has yet contested this claim.
- Much can be inferred about a man from his mistress: in her one beholds his weaknesses and his dreams.
- 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…
- 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…
- There are very many people who read simply to prevent themselves from thinking.
- What is called an acute knowledge of human nature is mostly nothing but the observer's own weaknesses reflected back from others.
- With a pen in my hand I have successfully stormed bulwarks from which others armed with sword and excommunication have been repulsed.
- 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…
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