The fundament upon which all our knowledge and learning rests is the inexplicable. |
The greatest achievements of the human mind are generally received with distrust. |
The greatest of follies is to sacrifice health for any other kind of happiness. |
The highest, most varied and lasting pleasures are those of the mind |
The longer a man's fame is likely to last, the longer it will be in coming. |
The man never feels the want of what it never occurs to him to ask for. |
The memory should be specially taxed in youth, since it is then that it is strongest and most tenacious. But in choosing the things that should be committed to memory the utmost care and forethought must be exercised; as lessons well learnt in youth are never forgotten. |
The middle ages showed us the results of thinking without experimentation, our present century shows us what experimentation without thinking leads to. |
The more unintelligent a man is, the less mysterious existence seems to him |
The person who writes for fools is always sure of a large audience. |
The present is the only reality and the only certainty. |
The problem with Germans is that they look in the clouds for what lies at their feet. |
The two foes of human happiness are pain and boredom |
The wise have always said the same things, and fools, who are the majority have always done just the opposite. |
The word of man is the most durable of all material. |