“The human understanding is unquiet; it cannot stop or rest, and still presses onward, but in vain.”
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“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.”
“Those who have handled sciences have been either men of experiment or men of dogmas.”
“There are and can be only two ways of searching into and discovering truth.”
“Truth will sooner come out from error than from confusion.”
“Old wood best to burn, old wine to drink, old friends to trust, and old authors to read.”
“Cato said the best way to keep good acts in memory was to refresh them with new.”
“One must learn to know oneself before knowing anything else.”
“When you love much, you are forgiven much, and when you are forgiven much, you love much.”
“Only by being before God can one totally come to oneself in the transparency of soberness.”
“I am an unauthorized poet who influences by means of the ideas.”
“In hidden inwardness all are Christians; who would dare deny this?”
“The world and Christianity have completely opposite conceptions.”