False facts are highly injurious to the progress of science, for they often endure long but false views, if supported by some evidence, do little harm, for every one takes a salutary pleasure in proving their falseness.
Therefore, the good of man must be the end of the science of politics.
Friendship is an arrangement by which we undertake to exchange small favors for big ones.
The attempt to combine wisdom and power has only rarely been successful and then only for a short while.
An excellent man he has no enemies and none of his friends like him.
The modern mind is in complete disarray. Knowledge has stretched itself to the point where neither the world nor our intelligence can find any foot-hold. It is a fact that we are suffering from nihilism.
Suppose you were an idiot, and suppose you were a member of Congress but I repeat myself.
Good actions give strength to ourselves and inspire good actions in others.
Conscience is God present in man.
Until the men of action clear out the talkers we who have social consciences are at the mercy of those who have none.
Man is so made that by continually telling him he is a fool he believes it, and by continually telling it to himself he makes himself believe it.
The kernel of all jealousy is lack of love.
One may smile, and smile, be a villain.
To misname things is to contribute to the world's miseries.
The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd; indeed in view of the silliness of the majority of mankind, a widespread belief is more likely to be foolish than sensible.
The relation of superior to inferior excludes good manners.
I found one day in school a boy of medium size ill-treating a smaller boy. I expostulated, but he replied: 'The bigs hit me, so I hit the babies; that's fair.' In these words he epitomized the history of the human race.
People tend to believe the bad rather than the good.
The facts of life do not penetrate to the sphere in which our beliefs are cherished.
Of men who reach my tale of years Who least has cause to make his moan? He who has learnt to banish fears, Who lives and dies unknown.
Pleasant it is, when over a great sea the winds trouble the waters, to gaze from shore upon another's great tribulation: not because any man's troubles are a delectable joy, but because to perceive from what ills you are free yourself is pleasant.
I want death to find me planting my cabbages, but careless of death, and still more of my unfinished garden.
Man is a rational animal who always loses his temper when he is called upon to act in accordance with the dictates of reason.
It is not without good reason said, that he who has not a good memory should never take upon him the trade of lying.
Laziness: the habit of resting before fatigue sets in.
Light had its allotted time; but timeless and infinite is the reign of the night − the duration of sleep eternal.
Everything evil is rooted in some good and everything false in some truth.
A systematic revolution of basic concepts begins with Einsteinian science. In the very detail of its concepts a relativism of the rational and the empirical is established. Science then undergoes what Nietzsche called 'an upheaval of concepts,' as if the earth, the universe, things, possessed a different structure from the fact that their explanation rests upon new foundations. All rational organization is 'shaken' when the fundamental concepts undergo dialectical transformation.
Yet do I fear thy nature: It is too full o'th'milk of human kindness To catch the nearest way.
Mediocre minds usually dismiss anything which reaches beyond their own understanding.
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