A sure sign of a good book is that you like it more the older you get.
The book which most deserved to be banned would be a catalog of banned books.
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.
Delight at having understood a very abstract and obscure system leads most people to believe in the truth of what it demonstrates.
Be attentive, feel nothing in vain, measure and compare: this is the whole law of philosophy.
There are people who think that everything one does with a serious face is sensible.
To read means to borrow; to create out of one s readings is paying off one's debts.
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.
Of all the inventions of man I doubt whether any was more easily accomplished than that of a Heaven.
Some people feel with their heads and think with their hearts.
Nothing makes one old so quickly as the ever-present thought that one is growing older.
A donkey appears to me like a horse translated into Dutch.
I forget the greater part of what I read, but all the same it nourishes my mind.
Probably no invention came more easily to man than heaven.
I am always grieved when a man of real talent dies. The world needs such men more than Heaven does.
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.
Food probably has a very great influence on the condition of men. Wine exercises a more visible influence, food does it more slowly but perhaps just as surely. Who knows if a well-prepared soup was not responsible for the pneumatic pump or a poor one for a war?
A schoolteacher or professor cannot educate individuals, he educates only species.
He who is enamored of himself will at least have the advantage of being inconvenienced by few rivals.
I have remarked very clearly that I am often of one opinion when I am lying down and of another when I am standing up.
In the world we live in, one fool makes many fools, but one sage only a few sages.
In every man there is something of all men.
Much can be inferred about a man from his mistress: in her one beholds his weaknesses and his dreams.
If we make a couple of discoveries here and there we need not believe things will go on like this for ever. Just as we hit water when we dig in the earth, so we discover the incomprehensible sooner or later.
As nations improve, so do their gods.
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