A person possessed with an idea cannot be reasoned with. |
Human improvement is from within outward. |
In everyday things the law of sacrifice takes the form of positive duty. |
Instruction does not prevent waster of time or mistakes; and mistakes themselves are often the best teachers of all. |
No person is ever good for much, that hasn't been swept off their feet by enthusiasm between ages twenty and thirty. |
Our human laws are more or less imperfect copies of the external laws as we see them. |
Philosophy goes no further than probabilities, and in every assertion keeps a doubt in reserve. |
Science rests on reason and experiment, and can meet an opponent with calmness; but a belief is always sensitive. |
The better one is morally the less aware they are of their virtue. |
The essence of greatness is neglect of the self. |
The first duty of an historian is to be on guard against his own sympathies. |
The secret of a person's nature lies in their religion and what they really believes about the world and their place in it. |
The superstition of science scoffs at the superstition of faith. |
To deny the freedom of the will is to make morality impossible. |
We enter the world alone, we leave the world alone. |