Wisdom Quotes · Page 46
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“Thought and reason, unless matched by feelings, are empty, delusive things.”
“There is no democracy in the world of intellect, and no democracy of taste.”
“Foolish people laugh at those readers a century ago who wept over the novels of Dickens.”
“A pig can learn more tricks than a dog, but has too much sense to want to do it.”
“Modern man is a debtor, or he is nothing, and money becomes more and more illusory.”
“It seems to me that most of us get all the adventure we are capable of digesting.”
“Without language, how can we tell anyone what we feel, or what we think?”
“We mistrust anything that too strongly challenges our ideal of mediocrity.”
“There is only one good. And that is to act according to the dictates of one's conscience.”
“What has value in their eyes is never what is done for them; it's what they do for themselves.”
“It is for man to establish the reign of liberty in the midst of the world of the given.”
“The present enshrines the past—and in the past all history has been made by men.”
“Society cares about the individual only in so far as he is profitable. The young know this.”
“It is precisely in knowing its limits that philosophy consists.”
“All human knowledge begins with intuitions, proceeds from thence to concepts, and ends with ideas.”
“I have therefore found it necessary to deny knowledge in order to make room for faith.”
“Out of the crooked timber of humanity, no straight thing was ever made.”
“By a lie a man throws away and, as it were, annihilates his dignity as a man.”
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