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Perhaps pure reason without heart would never have thought of God.
The grave is still the best shelter against the storms of destiny.
One can live in this world on soothsaying but not on truth saying.
If brandy was made out of sparrows there would soon be no sparrows.
A good metaphor is something even the police should keep an eye on.
A handful of soldiers is always better than a mouthful of arguments.
You can make a good living from soothsaying but not from truthsaying.
Man loves company - even if it is only that of a small burning candle.
A sure sign of a good book is that you like it more the older you get.
It often takes more courage to change one's opinion than to stick to it.
Doubt must be no more than vigilance, otherwise it can become dangerous.
Before one blames, one should always find out whether one cannot excuse.
People who never have any time on their hands are those who do the least.
The drive to propagate our race has also propagated a lot of other things
Courage, garrulousness and the mob are on our side. What more do we want?
Nowadays beautiful women are counted among the talents of their husbands.
There are people who can believe anything they wish. What lucky creatures!
With most men, unbelief in one thing springs from blind belief in another.
Theologians always try to turn the Bible into a book without common sense.
Doubt everything at least once, even the sentence "Two times two is four."
No despotism is so formidable as that of a religion or a scientific system.
Even truth needs to be clad in new garments if it is to appeal to a new age.
A person reveals his character by nothing so clearly as the joke he resents.
Man is always partial and is quite right to be. Even impartiality is partial.
The book which most deserved to be banned would be a catalog of banned books.
Man is so perfectable and corruptible he can become a fool through good sense.
Nothing is more conducive to peace of mind than not having any opinion at all.
We accumulate our opinions at an age when our understanding is at its weakest.
How did mankind ever come by the idea of liberty? What a grand thought it was!
With prophecies the commentator is often a more important man than the prophet.
Marriage, in contrast to the flu, starts with a fever and ends with the chills.
There are very many people who read simply to prevent themselves from thinking.
Perhaps in time the so-called Dark Ages will be thought of as including our own.
I forget the greater part of what I read, but all the same it nourishes my mind.
Never trust a man who lays his hand on his heart when he assures you of anything.
After all, is our idea of God anything more than personified incomprehensibility?
A man has virtues enough if he deserves pardon for his faults on account of them.
To many people virtue consists chiefly in repenting faults, not in avoiding them.
He swallowed a lot of wisdom, but all of it seems to have gone down the wrong way.
If another Messiah was born he could hardly do so much good as the printing-press.
The most successful tempters and thus the most dangerous are the deluded deluders.
A schoolteacher or professor cannot educate individuals, he educates only species.
In the world we live in, one fool makes many fools, but one sage only a few sages.
If this is philosophy it is at any rate a philosophy that is not in its right mind.
Nothing can contribute more to peace of soul than the lack of any opinion whatever.
Deliberate virtue is never worth much: The virtue of feeling or habit is the thing.
To read means to borrow; to create out of one s readings is paying off one's debts.
Why does a suppurating lung give so little warning and a sore on the finger so much?
Most men of education are more superstitious than they admit - nay, than they think.
A book is a mirror: if an ape looks into it an apostle is hardly likely to look out.