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One's first step in wisdom is to question everything -- one's last step is to come to terms with everything.

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Now that education is so easy, men are drilled for greatness, just as dogs are trained to retrieve. In this way we've discovered a new sort of genius, those great at being drilled. These are the people who are mainly spoiling the market.

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If we make a couple of discoveries here and there we need not believe things will go on like this for ever. Just as we hit water when we dig in the earth, so we discover the incomprehensible sooner or later.

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If it were true what in the end would be gained Nothing but another truth. Is this such a mighty advantage We have enough old truths still to digest, and even these we would be quite unable to endure if we did not sometimes flavor them with lies.

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Erudition can produce foliage without bearing fruit.

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Man can acquire accomplishments or he can become an animal, whichever he wants. God makes the animals, man makes himself.

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The most perfect ape cannot draw an ape only man can do that but, likewise, only man regards the ability to do this as a sign of superiority.

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Love is blind, but marriage restores its sight.

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Man is always partial and is quite right to be. Even impartiality is partial.

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If people should ever start to do only what is necessary millions would die of hunger.

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To err is human also in so far as animals seldom or never err, or at least only the cleverest of them do so.

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One might call habit a moral friction something that prevents the mind from gliding over things but connects it with them and makes it hard for it to free itself from them.

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Most subjects at universities are taught for no other purpose than that they may be re-taught when the students become teachers.

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The most successful tempters and thus the most dangerous are the deluded deluders.

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It may not be natural for man to walk on two legs, but it was a noble invention.

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The most heated defenders of a science, who cannot endure the slightest sneer at it, are commonly those who have not made very much progress in it and are secretly aware of this defect.

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With prophecies the commentator is often a more important man than the prophet.

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The pleasures of the imagination are as it were only drawings and models which are played with by poor people who cannot afford the real thing.

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Good taste is either that which agrees with my taste or that which subjects itself to the rule of reason. From this we can see how useful it is to employ reason in seeking out the laws of taste.

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Much reading has brought upon us a learned barbarism.

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We cannot remember too often that when we observe nature, and especially the ordering of nature, it is always ourselves alone we are observing.

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He who is enamored of himself will at least have the advantage of being inconvenienced by few rivals.

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In the world we live in, one fool makes many fools, but one sage only a few sages.

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To do the opposite of something is also a form of imitation, namely an imitation of its opposite.

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There are people who possess not so much genius as a certain talent for perceiving the desires of the century, or even of the decade, before it has done so itself.

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