There is a great difference between still believing something and…

There is a great difference between still believing something and again believing it.

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The most successful tempters and thus the most dangerous are the deluded deluders. - View Quote Details on The most successful tempters and thus the most dangerous are…
It is we who are the measure of what is strange and miraculous: if we sought a universal measure the strange and miraculous would not occur and all things would be equal. - View Quote Details on It is we who are the measure of what is…
The American who first discovered Columbus made a bad discovery. - View Quote Details on The American who first discovered Columbus made a bad discovery.
What is called an acute knowledge of human nature is mostly nothing but the observer’s own weaknesses reflected back from others. - View Quote Details on What is called an acute knowledge of human nature is…
A great speech is easy to learn by heart and a great poem even easier. How hard it would be to memorize as many words linked together senselessly, or a speech in a foreign tongue! Sense and understanding thus come to the aid of memory. Sense is order and order is in the last resort conformity with our nature. When we speak rationally we are only speaking in accordance with the nature of our being. That is why we devise genera and species in the case of plants and animals. The hypotheses we make belong here too: we are obliged to have them because otherwise we would unable to retain things… The question is, however, whether everything is legible to us. Certainly experiment and reflection enable us to introduce a significance into what is not legible, either to us or at all: thus we see faces or landscapes in the sand, though they are certainly not there. The introducion of symmetries belongs here too, silhouettes in inkblots, etc. Likewise the gradation we establish in the order of creatures: all this is not in the things but in us. In general we cannot remember too often that when we observe nature, and especially the ordering of nature, it is always ourselves alone we are observing. - View Quote Details on A great speech is easy to learn by heart and…
If all else fails, the character of a man can be recognized by nothing so surely as by a jest which he takes badly. - View Quote Details on If all else fails, the character of a man can…
There exists a species of transcendental ventriloquism by means of which men can be made to believe that something said on earth comes from Heaven. - View Quote Details on There exists a species of transcendental ventriloquism by means of…
There are two ways of extending life: firstly by moving the two points “born” and “died” farther away from one another… The other method is to go more slowly and leave the two points wherever God wills they should be, and this method is for the philosophers. - View Quote Details on There are two ways of extending life: firstly by moving…
He who is enamored of himself will at least have the advantage of being inconvenienced by few rivals. - View Quote Details on He who is enamored of himself will at least have…
The great rule: If the little bit you have is nothing special in itself, at least find a way of saying it that is a little bit special. - View Quote Details on The great rule: If the little bit you have is…