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God created man in His own image, says the Bible; philosophers reverse the process: they create God in theirs
Every man has his moral backside which he refrains from showing unless he has to and keeps covered as long as possible with the trousers of decorum
Even truth needs to be clad in new garments if it is to appeal to a new age
Erudition can produce foliage without bearing fruit
Doubt must be no more than vigilance, otherwise it can become dangerous
Delight at having understood a very abstract and obscure system leads most people to believe in the truth of what it demonstrates
Be wary of passing the judgment: obscure. To find something obscure poses no difficult, elephants and poodles find many things obscure
A handful of soldiers is always better than a mouthful of arguments
A book is a mirror: if an ape looks into it an apostle is hardly likely to look out
With most people unbelief in one thing is founded upon blind belief in another
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On Anger: "For every minute you remain angry, you give up sixty seconds of peace of mind."
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On Destiny: "Our destiny exercises its influence over us even when, as yet, we have not learned its nature: it is our future that lays down the law of our today."
Human, All Too Human
Human, All Too Human
On Friendship: "A crowd is not company; and faces are but a gallery of pictures; and talk but a tinkling cymbal, where there is no love."
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