“An extensive knowledge is needful to thinking people- it takes away the heat and fever; and helps, by widening speculation, to ease the burden of the mystery”
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“An extensive knowledge is needful to thinking people- it takes away the heat and fever; and helps, by widening speculation, to ease the burden of the mystery”
“The only means of strengthening one's intellect is to make up one's mind about nothing , to let the mind be a thoroughfare for all thoughts, not a select party”
“My unconscious knows more about the consciousness of the psychologist than his consciousness knows about my unconscious”
“The more I see of the representatives of the people, the more I admire my dogs”
“No one ever regarded the First of January with indifference. It is that from which all date their time, and count upon what is left. It is the nativity of our common Adam”
“The greatest pleasure I know is to do something by stealth and have it found out by accident”
“Separate from the pleasure of your company, I don't much care if I never see another mountain in my life”
“In everything that relates to science, I am a whole Encyclopaedia behind the rest of the world.”
“A person reveals his character by nothing so clearly as the joke he resents”
“To read means to borrow; to create out of one's readings is paying off one's debts”
“What most clearly characterizes true freedom and its true employment is its misemployment”
“Much can be inferred about a man from his mistress: in her one beholds his weaknesses and his dreams”
“He that judges without informing himself to the utmost that he is capable, cannot acquit himself of judging amiss”
“The only fence against the world is a thorough knowledge of it”
“It is one thing to show a man that he is in an error, and another to put him in possession of truth”
“No man's knowledge here can go beyond his experience”
“The improvement of understanding is for two ends: first, our own increase of knowledge; secondly, to enable us to deliver that knowledge to others”
“It is difficult to know at what moment love begins; it is less difficult to know that it has begun”
“I have studied many philosophers and many cats. The wisdom of the cats is infinitely superior. ”
“We study ourselves three weeks, we love each other three months, we squabble three years, we tolerate each other thirty years, and then the children start all over again”