“Ridicule is the only weapon which can be used against unintelligible propositions.”
Quotes for When You Need Peace · Page 45
Serene words to slow down your world and bring you back to stillness.
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“It is in our lives, and not from our words, that our religion must be read.”
“The force of public opinion cannot be resisted when permitted freely to be expressed.”
“There is not a truth existing which I fear or would wish unknown to the whole world.”
“Do not be frightened from this inquiry by any fear of its consequences.”
“Although we are free by the law, we are not so in practice.”
“After all, it is my principle that the will of the Majority should always prevail.”
“The sun passeth through pollutions and itself remains as pure as before.”
“The unassisted hand and the understanding left to itself possess but little power.”
“The subtlety of nature is greater many times over than the subtlety of argument.”
“Truth, therefore, and utility are here perfectly identical.”
“The human understanding is unquiet; it cannot stop or rest, and still presses onward, but in vain.”
“It is not possible to run a course aright when the goal itself has not been rightly placed.”
“But the best demonstration by far is experience, if it go not beyond the actual experiment.”
“The Idols of the Cave are the idols of the individual man.”