The human tendency to regard little things as important has produced very many great things. |
The journalists have constructed for themselves a little wooden chapel, which they also call the Temple of Fame, in which they put up and take down portraits all day long and make such a hammering you can't hear yourself speak. |
The most accomplished monkey cannot draw a monkey, this only man can do; just as it is also only man who regards his ability to do this as a distinct merit |
The most dangerous of all falsehoods is a slightly distorted truth |
The most dangerous untruths are truths moderately distorted. |
The noble simplicity in the works of nature only too often originates in the noble shortsightedness of him who observes it. |
The sure conviction that we could if we wanted to is the reason so many good minds are idle. |
The thoughts written on the walls of madhouses by their inmates might be worth publicizing. |
The worst thing you can possibly do is worrying and thinking about what you could have done. |
Theologians always try to turn the Bible into a book without common sense |
There are very many people who read simply to prevent themselves from thinking. |
There is no greater impediment to progress in the sciences than the desire to see it take place too quickly. |
Those who never have time do least |
To be content with life - or to live merrily, rather -all that is required is that we bestow on all things only a fleeting, superficial glance; the more thoughtful we become the more earnest we grow. |
To do just the opposite is also a form of imitation |