We have really, that I know of, no philosophical basis for high and low. Moreover, the vegetable kingdom does not culminate, as the animal kingdom does. It is not a kingdom, but a common-wealth; a democracy, and therefore puzzling and unaccountable from the former point of view.
In my work I now have the comfortable feeling that I am so to speak on my own ground and territory and almost certainly not competing in an anxious race and that I shall not suddenly read in the literature that someone else had done it all long ago. It is really at this point that the pleasure of research begins, when one is, so to speak, alone with nature and no longer worries about human opinions, views and demands. To put it in a way that is more learned than clear: the philological aspect drops out and only the philosophical remains.
Humility is the most difficult of all virtues to achieve; nothing dies harder than the desire to think well of self.
There is no such thing as philosophy-free science, just science that has been conducted without any consideration of its underlying philosophical assumptions.
Light troubles speak; the weighty are struck dumb.
For greed, all nature is too little.
Liberty consists in doing what one desires.
I have loved to the point of madness; That which is called madness, That which to me, Is the only sensible way to love.
May be is very well, but Must is the master. It is my duty to show justice without recompense.
Life contains but two tragedies. One is not to get your heart's desire; the other is to get it.
Football is the ballet of the masses.
Understanding is nothing else than conception caused by speech.
I have never known any distress that an hour's reading did not relieve.
We are more often frightened than hurt; and we suffer more from imagination than from reality.
A great fortune is a great slavery.
It is better of course to know useless things than to know nothing.
He who learns but does not think, is lost. He who thinks but does not learn is in great danger.
What can I know? What ought I to do? What may I hope?
Constant exposure to dangers will breed contempt for them.
There is a noble manner of being poor, and who does not know it will never be rich.
He has committed the crime who profits by it.
In masks outrageous and austere The years go by in single file; But none has merited my fear, And none has quite escaped my smile.
It is not races but individuals that are noble and courageous or ignoble and craven or considerate or persistent or philosophical or reasonable. The race gets credit when the percentage of noble individuals is high.
Civilizations die from philosophical calm, irony, and a sense of fair play quite as surely as they die of debauchery.
The Arab who built himself a hut with marbles from the temple of Palmyra is more philosophical than all the curators of the museums of London, Paris, and Munich.
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