It is always advisable to perceive clearly our ignorance.
A man's friendships are one of the best measures of his worth.
we are always slow in admitting any great change of which we do not see the intermediate steps
An agnostic would be the more correct description of my state of mind.
Free will is to mind what chance is to matter.
I never gave up Christianity until I was forty years of age.
With savages, the weak in body or mind are soon eliminated. We civilized men, on the other hand, do our utmost to check the process of elimination. We build asylums for the imbecile, the maimed and the sick. Thus the weak members of civilized societies propagate their kind. No one who has attended to the breeding of domestic animals will doubt that this must be highly injurious to the race of man. Hardly anyone is so ignorant as to allow his worst animals to breed.
Another source of conviction in the existence of God, connected with the reason and not with the feelings, impresses me as having much more weight. This follows from the extreme difficulty or rather impossibility of conceiving this immense and wonderful universe, including man with his capacity of looking far backwards and far into futurity, as the result of blind chance or necessity. When thus reflecting I feel compelled to look to a First Cause having an intelligent mind in some degree analogous to that of man; and I deserve to be called a Theist.
I am not apt to follow blindly the lead of other men
Everything in nature is the result of fixed laws.
The highest possible stage in moral culture is when we recognize that we ought to control our thoughts.
Much love much trial, but what an utter desert is life without love.
We are not here concerned with hopes or fears, only with truth as far as our reason permits us to discover it.
If I had my life to live over again, I would have made a rule to read some poetry and listen to some music at least once every week.
It is a cursed evil to any man to become as absorbed in any subject as I am in mine.
Blushing is the most peculiar and most human of all expressions.
Great is the power of steady misrepresentation
The question of whether there exists a Creator and Ruler of the Universe has been answered in the affirmative by some of the highest intellects that have ever existed.
Only the fittest will survive.
An American monkey, after getting drunk on brandy, would never touch it again, and thus is much wiser than most men.
Man with all his noble qualities, with sympathy which feels for the most debased, with benevolence which extends not only to other men but to the humblest living creature, with his god-like intellect which has penetrated into the movements and constitution of the solar system- with all these exalted powers- Man still bears in his bodily frame the indelible stamp of his lowly origin.
On the ordinary view of each species having been independently created, we gain no scientific explanation.
Ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge: it is those who know little, and not those who know much, who so positively assert that this or that problem will never be solved by science.
I have tried lately to read Shakespeare, and found it so intolerably dull that it nauseated me.
If every one were cast in the same mould, there would be no such thing as beauty.
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