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Genius has never been accepted without a measure of condonement.
There is no fair wind for one who knows not whither he is bound.
Straightforwardness and simplicity are in keeping with goodness.
Auditur et altera pars. (The other side shall be heard as well.)
Drunkenness does not create vice; it merely brings it into view.
Religion worships God, while superstition profanes that worship.
It is a youthful failing to be unable to control one's impulses.
To be always relevant, you have to say things which are eternal.
The feeding of those that are hungry is a form of contemplation.
Why should we pay so much attention to what the majority thinks?
You have however within you an inclination towards completeness.
To make a revolution is not in the grain of our people's nature.
Life, the river of the Spirit, consenting to anguish and sorrow.
Simply look at whatever happens and know that you are beyond it.
If you believe in God, work with Him. If you do not, become one.
To see the unreal is wisdom. Beyond this lies the inexpressible.
The bigger you build the bonfire, the more darkness is revealed.
We're not dropping out here, we're infiltrating and taking over.
A great man shows his greatness by the way he treats little men.
Whose school-hours are all the days and nights of our existence.
Love is the only game that is not called on account of darkness.
The eternal stars shine out again, so soon as it is dark enough.
The All of Things is an infinite conjugation of the verb To do .
A frightful dialect for the stupid, the pedant and dullard sort.
To the vulgar eye, few things are wonderful that are not distant
It is the feeling of injustice that is insupportable to all men.
Skepticism means, not intellectual doubt alone, but moral doubt.
There is more in Mersenne than in all the universities together.
The problem of suffering is: why is there the suffering we know?
We do not possess an 'ego.' We are possessed by the idea of one.
It is less what one is that should matter, than what one is not.
Logic is an old subject, and since 1879 it has been a great one.
The aim of science is always to reduce complexity to simplicity.
Our view of the world is truly shaped by what we decide to hear.
We are spinning our own fates, good or evil, never to be undone.
We all have a lifelong habit of inferiority to our full self..."
a man does not cry because he is sad, he is sad because he cries
Counsel in trouble gives small comfort when help is past remedy.
A virtuous man concentrates on his own work, not that of others.
By silence, I hear other men's imperfections and conceal my own.
He who knows the activities of Nature lives according to Nature.
The real tragedy of the poor is the poverty of their aspirations.
Who would imagine that I was to be the founder of a new religion.
People become concerned with being more humble than other people.
Second order effects, such as belief in belief, makes fanaticism.
The vice lies not in entering the bordello but in not coming out.
Education is an ornament in prosperity and a refuge in adversity.
The aim of the wise is not to secure pleasure, but to avoid pain.
Let us first understand the facts and then we may seek the cause.
When the looms spin by themselves, we'll have no need for slaves.