The middle ages showed us the results of thinking without experimentation, our present centuryshows us what experimentation without thinking leads to.
Each day is a little life: every waking and rising a little birth, every fresh morning a little youth, every going to rest and sleep a little death.
We can come to look upon the deaths of our enemies with as much regret as we feel for those of our friends, namely, when we miss their existence as witnesses to our success.
Talent hits a target no one else can hit Genius hits a target no one else can see.
They tell us that suicide is the greatest piece of cowardice; . . . that suicide is wrong; when it is quite obvious that there is nothing in the world to which every man has a more unassailable title than to his own life and person.
The doctor sees all the weakness of mankind the lawyer all the wickedness, the theologian all the stupidity.
Newspapers are the second hand of history. This hand, however, is usually not only of inferior metal to the other hands, it also seldom works properly.
It is with trifles and when he is off guard that a man best reveals his character.
There are, first of all, two kinds of authors: those who write for the subject's sake, and those who write for writing's sake. [...] The truth is that when an author begins to write for the sake of covering paper, he is cheating the reader; because he writes under the pretext that he has something to say.
No one writes anything worth writing, unless he writes entirely for the sake of his subject.
Philosophy... is a science, and as such has no articles of faith; accordingly, in it nothing can be assumed as existing except what is either positively given empirically, or demonstrated through indubitable conclusions.
Truth is most beautiful undraped.
Talent hits a target no one else can hit. Genius hits a target no one else can see.
I owe what is best in my own development to the impression made by Kant's works, the sacred writings of the Hindus, and Plato.
There is not a grain of dust, not an atom that can become nothing, yet man believes that death is the annhilation of his being.
Human existence must be a kind of error...it may be said of it, 'it is bad today and every day it will get worse, until the worst of all happens'.
The greatest of follies is to sacrifice health for any other kind of happiness.
We forfeit three-fourths of ourselves in order to be like other people.
Sleep is the interest we have to pay on the capital which is called in at death and the higher the rate of interest and the more regularly it is paid, the further the date of redemption is postponed.
The first forty years of life give us the text; the next thirty supply the commentary on it.
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