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- Intelligence
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- Nov 07, 2020
Everyone is a genius at least once a year. The real geniuses simply have their bright ideas closer together.
- New
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Dark Ages
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- Nov 07, 2020
Perhaps in time the so-called Dark Ages will be thought of as including our own.
- Heaven
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- Nov 07, 2020
Never undertake anything for which you wouldn't have the courage to ask the blessings of heaven.
- Governed
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- Nov 07, 2020
Men still have to be governed by deception.
- Men
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- Nov 07, 2020
One must judge men not by their opinions, but by what their opinions have made of them.
- God
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- Nov 07, 2020
God created man in His own image, says the Bible; philosophers reverse the process: they create God in theirs.
- Himself
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- Nov 07, 2020
He who is in love with himself has at least this advantage - he won't encounter many rivals.
- Experience
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- Nov 07, 2020
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?
- Always
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- Nov 07, 2020
We cannot remember too often that when we observe nature, and especially the ordering of nature, it is always ourselves alone we are observing.
- Stupid
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- Nov 07, 2020
We have no words for speaking of wisdom to the stupid. He who understands the wise is wise already.
- Lights
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- Nov 07, 2020
The fly that doesn't want to be swatted is most secure when it lights on the fly-swatter.
- Nothing
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- Nov 07, 2020
Nothing is more conducive to peace of mind than not having any opinion at all.
- Better
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- Nov 07, 2020
If you are going to build something in the air it is always better to build castles than houses of cards.
- He
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- Nov 07, 2020
If all else fails, the character of a man can be recognized by nothing so surely as by a jest which he takes badly.
- Believe
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- He
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Effort
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Prevent
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- Nov 07, 2020
There are very many people who read simply to prevent themselves from thinking.
- Place
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- Nov 07, 2020
There is no greater impediment to progress in the sciences than the desire to see it take place too quickly.
- Imitation
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- Nov 07, 2020
To do the opposite of something is also a form of imitation, namely an imitation of its opposite.
- Nothing
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- Nov 07, 2020
Nothing can contribute more to peace of soul than the lack of any opinion whatever.
- Nothing
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- Nov 07, 2020
Nothing makes one old so quickly as the ever-present thought that one is growing older.
- Premeditation
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- Nov 07, 2020
Virtue by premeditation isn't worth much.
- Idle
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- Nov 07, 2020
The sure conviction that we could if we wanted to is the reason so many good minds are idle.
- Look
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- Nov 07, 2020
A book is a mirror: if an ape looks into it an apostle is hardly likely to look out.
- Cleverest
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- Nov 07, 2020
To err is human also in so far as animals seldom or never err, or at least only the cleverest of them do so.
- Opinions
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- Nov 07, 2020
We accumulate our opinions at an age when our understanding is at its weakest.
- Man
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- Nov 07, 2020
That man is the noblest creature may also be inferred from the fact that no other creature has yet contested this claim.
- I Am
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- Nov 07, 2020
I am convinced we do not only love ourselves in others but hate ourselves in others too.
- Her
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- Nov 07, 2020
Much can be inferred about a man from his mistress: in her one beholds his weaknesses and his dreams.
- Clever
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- Nov 07, 2020
We are obliged to regard many of our original minds as crazy at least until we have become as clever as they are.
- Blind
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- Nov 07, 2020
With most people disbelief in a thing is founded on a blind belief in some other thing.
- Position
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- Nov 07, 2020
We say that someone occupies an official position, whereas it is the official position that occupies him.
- Greatest
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- Nov 07, 2020
Sickness is mankind's greatest defect.
- Chair
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Gift
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Others
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- Nov 07, 2020
With a pen in my hand I have successfully stormed bulwarks from which others armed with sword and excommunication have been repulsed.
- Earth
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Most
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- Nov 07, 2020
Delight at having understood a very abstract and obscure system leads most people to believe in the truth of what it demonstrates.
- Human Nature
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- Nov 07, 2020
What is called an acute knowledge of human nature is mostly nothing but the observer's own weaknesses reflected back from others.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Decree
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Gliding
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Our
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Grow
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Human
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- Nov 07, 2020
The human tendency to regard little things as important has produced very many great things.
- Know
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- Nov 07, 2020
Once we know our weaknesses they cease to do us any harm.
- Feel
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Find
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- Nov 07, 2020
Be wary of passing the judgment: obscure. To find something obscure poses no difficult, elephants and poodles find many things obscure.
- Determinism
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- Nov 07, 2020
Man is a masterpiece of creation if for no other reason than that, all the weight of evidence for determinism notwithstanding, he believes he has free will.
- Human Nature
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Our
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- Nov 07, 2020
Many things about our bodies would not seem to us so filthy and obscene if we did not have the idea of nobility in our heads.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
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 me.
- Noble
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- Nov 07, 2020
The noble simplicity in the works of nature only too often originates in the noble shortsightedness of him who observes it.
- Hunger
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- Nov 07, 2020
If people should ever start to do only what is necessary millions would die of hunger.
- Fruit
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- Nov 07, 2020
Erudition can produce foliage without bearing fruit.
- He
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- Nov 07, 2020
He who says he hates every kind of flattery, and says it in earnest, certainly does not yet know every kind of flattery.
- God
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- Nov 07, 2020