“We should have a great fewer disputes in the world if words were taken for what they are, the signs of our ideas only, and not for things themselves”
“We should have a great fewer disputes in the world if words were taken for what they are, the signs of our ideas only, and not for things themselves”
“In everything that relates to science, I am a whole Encyclopaedia behind the rest of the world.”
“A man should have the fine point of his soul taken off to become fit for this world”
“Are there not thousands in the world who love their fellows even to the death, who feel the giant agony of the world, and more, like slaves to poor humanity, labor for mortal good?”
“The agitator seizes the world. The artist is seized by it”
“How is the world ruled and how do wars start? Diplomats tell lies to journalists and then believe what they read”
“To love truth for truth's sake is the principal part of human perfection in this world, and the seed-plot of all other virtues”