“The subtlety of nature is greater many times over than the subtlety of argument.”
Wisdom Quotes · Page 21
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“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.”
“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.”
“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.”
“Its finger was in the largest public pie, and in the smallest public tart.”
“I want to be something so much worthier than the doll in the doll's house.”
“The dignity of his office is never impaired by the absence of efforts on his part to maintain it.”
“To conceal anything from those to whom I am attached, is not in my nature.”
“I represent a party which does not yet exist: the party Revolution-Civilization.”
“He had the blind certainty of the arrow, which sees only the mark and flies to it.”
“To put everything in balance is good, to put everything in harmony is better.”