Body and soul: a horse harnessed beside an ox.

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There is no more important rule of conduct in the world than this: attach yourself as much as you can to people who are abler than you and yet not so very different that you cannot understand them. - View Quote Details on There is no more important rule of conduct in the…
The human tendency to regard little things as important has produced very many great things. - View Quote Details on The human tendency to regard little things as important has…
As I take up my pen I feel myself so full, so equal to my subject, and see my book so clearly before me in embryo, I would almost like to try to say it all in a single word. - View Quote Details on As I take up my pen I feel myself so…
Cautiousness in judgment is nowadays to be recommended to each and every one: if we gained only one incontestable truth every ten years from each of our philosophical writers the harvest we reaped would be sufficient…. To grow wiser means to learn to know better and better the faults to which this instrument with which we feel and judge can be subject. - View Quote Details on Cautiousness in judgment is nowadays to be recommended to each…
Courage, garrulousness and the mob are on our side. What more do we want? - View Quote Details on Courage, garrulousness and the mob are on our side. What…
Every man has his moral backside which he refrains from showing unless he has to and keeps covered as long as possible with the trousers of decorum. - View Quote Details on Every man has his moral backside which he refrains from…
The “second sight” possessed by the Highlanders in Scotland is actually a foreknowledge of future events. I believe they possess this gift because they don’t wear trousers… That is also why in all countries women are more prone to utter prophecies. - View Quote Details on The “second sight” possessed by the Highlanders in Scotland is…
We live in a world in which one fool makes many fools but one wise man only a few wise men. - View Quote Details on We live in a world in which one fool makes…
Ideas too are a life and a world. - View Quote Details on Ideas too are a life and a world.
There can hardly be stranger wares in the world than books: printed by people who do not understand them; sold by people who do not understand them; bound, reviewed and read by people who do not understand them; and now even written by people who do not understand them. - View Quote Details on There can hardly be stranger wares in the world than…