42 RECORDS FOUND
"It is only a man's own fundamental thoughts that have truth and life in them. For it is these that he really and completely understands. To read the thoughts of others is like taking the remains of someone else's meal, like putting on the discarded clothes of a stranger."
"The discovery of truth is prevented more effectively, not by the false appearance things present and which mislead into error, not directly by weakness of the reasoning powers, but by preconceived opinion, by prejudice."
"All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident."
"Almost all of our sorrows spring out of our relations with other people."
"We can come to look upon the deaths of our enemies with as much regret as we feel for those of our friends, namely, when we miss their existence as witnesses to our success."
"Will power is to the mind like a strong blind man who carries on his shoulders a lame man who can see."
"Politeness is to human nature what warmth is to wax."
"Suffering by nature or chance never seems so painful as suffering inflicted on us by the arbitrary will of another."
"Music is the melody whose text is the world."
"Because people have no thoughts to deal in, they deal cards, and try and win one another's money. Idiots!"
"Men are by nature merely indifferent to one another but women are by nature enemies."
"The doctor sees all the weakness of mankind the lawyer all the wickedness, the theologian all the stupidity."
"Patriotism, when it wants to make itself felt in the domain of learning, is a dirty fellow who should be thrown out of doors."
"The fundament upon which all our knowledge and learning rests is the inexplicable."
"As the biggest library if it is in disorder is not as useful as a small but well-arranged one, so you may accumulate a vast amount of knowledge but it will be of far less value than a much smaller amount if you have not thought it over for yourself."
"Nature shows that with the growth of intelligence comes increased capacity for pain, and it is only with the highest degree of intelligence that suffering reaches its supreme point."
"Talent hits a target no one else can hit Genius hits a target no one else can see."
"Newspapers are the second hand of history. This hand, however, is usually not only of inferior metal to the other hands, it also seldom works properly."
"Every possession and every happiness is but lent by chance for an uncertain time, and may therefore be demanded back the next hour."
"Money is human happiness in the abstract he, then, who is no longer capable of enjoying human happiness in the concrete devotes himself utterly to money."
"The greatest of follies is to sacrifice health for any other kind of happiness."
"The two enemies of human happiness are pain and boredom."
"Great minds are related to the brief span of time during which they live as great buildings are to a little square in which they stand: you cannot see them in all their magnitude because you are standing too close to them."
"Great men are like eagles, and build their nest on some lofty solitude."
"With people of limited ability modesty is merely honesty. But with those who possess great talent it is hypocrisy."
"In action a great heart is the chief qualification. In work, a great head."
"Buying books would be a good thing if one could also buy the time to read them in: but as a rule the purchase of books is mistaken for the appropriation of their contents."
"Satisfaction consists in freedom from pain, which is the positive element of life."
"Martyrdom is the only way a man can become famous without ability."
"Sleep is the interest we have to pay on the capital which is called in at death and the higher the rate of interest and the more regularly it is paid, the further the date of redemption is postponed."
"Every parting gives a foretaste of death, every reunion a hint of the resurrection."
"After your death you will be what you were before your birth."
"Each day is a little life: every waking and rising a little birth, every fresh morning a little youth, every going to rest and sleep a little death."
"They tell us that suicide is the greatest piece of cowardice... that suicide is wrong when it is quite obvious that there is nothing in the world to which every man has a more unassailable title than to his own life and person."
"It is with trifles, and when he is off guard, that a man best reveals his character."
"Religion is the masterpiece of the art of animal training, for it trains people as to how they shall think."
"Treat a work of art like a prince. Let it speak to you first."
"Hatred is an affair of the heart contempt that of the head."
"Change alone is eternal, perpetual, immortal."
"To live alone is the fate of all great souls."
"A man can be himself only so long as he is alone."
"There is no absurdity so palpable but that it may be firmly planted in the human head if you only begin to inculcate it before the age of five, by constantly repeating it with an air of great solemnity."
