It is strange that only extraordinary men make the discoveries, which later appear so easy and simple.
The proof that man is the noblest of all creatures is that no other creature has ever denied it.
I ceased in the year 1764 to believe that one can convince one’s opponents with arguments printed in books. It is not to do that, therefore, that I have taken up my pen, but merely so as to annoy them, and to bestow strength and courage on those on our own side, and to make it known to the others that they have not convinced us.
The greater part of human misery is caused by indolence.
Great men too make mistakes, and many among them do it so often that one is almost tempted to call them little men.
We have no words for speaking of wisdom to the stupid. He who understands the wise is wise already.
Popular presentation today is all too often that which puts the mob in a position to talk about something without understanding it.
A book is a mirror: if an ape looks into it an apostle is hardly likely to look out.
There are two ways of extending life: firstly by moving the two points "born" and "died" farther away from one another. The other method is to go more slowly and leave the two points wherever God wills they should be, and this method is for the philosophers.
Before we blame we should first see whether we cannot excuse.
Man loves company - even if it is only that of a small burning candle.
He who understands the wise is wise already.
You believe I run after the strange because I do not know the beautiful; no, it is because you do not know the beautiful that I seek the strange.
The fruits of philosophy are the important thing, not the philosophy itself. When we ask the time, we don't want to know how watches are made.
There are many who believe that 'Marriage is not a word - it is a sentence!' Whether you are indeed 'married' or if you are 'single', I am sure that funny quotes on weddings and marriages always tend to put a wicked smile to the face. It is often said that 'People who are married are often desperate to get out of it and people who are single can't wait to get in!'
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.
What we are able to judge with feeling is very little; the rest is all prejudice and complaisance.
Delicacy in woman is strength.
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.
What we have to discover for ourselves leaves behind in our mind a pathway that can be used on another occasion.
Men still have to be governed by deception.
I am convinced we do not only love ourselves in others but hate ourselves in others too.
Those who never have time do least
Doubt everything at least once, even the sentence "Two times two is four."
Rational free spirits are the light brigade who go on ahead and reconnoiter the ground which the heavy brigade of the orthodox will eventually occupy.
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