“Not just in commerce but in the world of ideas too our age is putting on a veritable clearance sale. Everything can be had so dirt cheap that one begins to wonder whether in the end anyone will want to make a bid”
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“Not just in commerce but in the world of ideas too our age is putting on a veritable clearance sale. Everything can be had so dirt cheap that one begins to wonder whether in the end anyone will want to make a bid”
“My imagination is a monastery and I am its monk”
“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”
“Philosophy will clip an angel's wings”
“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”
“What occasions the greater part of the world's quarrels? Simply this: Two minds meet and do not understand each other in time enough to prevent any shock of surprise at the conduct of either party”
“Four seasons fill the measure of the year; there are four seasons in the mind of man”
“And when he is out of sight, quickly also is he out of mind.”
“Psychoanalysis is that mental illness for which it regards itself as therapy”
“No ideas and the ability to express them - that's a journalist”
“The people only understand what they can feel; the only orators that can affect them are those who move them”
“He is no lawyer who cannot take two sides”
“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”
“We grow gray in our spirit long before we grow gray in our hair.”
“He who doesn't lose his wits over certain things has no wits to lose”
“One might call habit a moral friction: something that prevents the mind from gliding over things but connects it with them and makes it hard for it to free itself from them”
“To read means to borrow; to create out of one's readings is paying off one's debts”
“The sure conviction that we could if we wanted to is the reason so many good minds are idle”
“The thoughts written on the walls of madhouses by their inmates might be worth publicizing”
“Erudition can produce foliage without bearing fruit.”