It is not without good reason said, that he who has not a good memory should never take upon him the trade of lying.
Laziness: the habit of resting before fatigue sets in.
Light had its allotted time; but timeless and infinite is the reign of the night − the duration of sleep eternal.
Everything evil is rooted in some good and everything false in some truth.
A systematic revolution of basic concepts begins with Einsteinian science. In the very detail of its concepts a relativism of the rational and the empirical is established. Science then undergoes what Nietzsche called 'an upheaval of concepts,' as if the earth, the universe, things, possessed a different structure from the fact that their explanation rests upon new foundations. All rational organization is 'shaken' when the fundamental concepts undergo dialectical transformation.
Yet do I fear thy nature: It is too full o'th'milk of human kindness To catch the nearest way.
Mediocre minds usually dismiss anything which reaches beyond their own understanding.
My difficulty is only an — enormous — difficulty of expression.
The sad truth of the matter is that most evil is done by people who never made up their minds to be or do either evil or good.
The main scourge of humanity is not ignorance, because the ignorant often have excuses, but the refusal to know.
One can say that to some extent fascism has added a new variation to the old art of lying — the most devilish variation — that of lying the truth.
Not doubt, certainty is what drives one insane.
Every animal loves itself.
I think that only daring speculation can lead us further and not accumulation of facts.
Irony hurts, humour treats. Irony can kill; humour helps to live. Irony wants to establish domination; humour liberates. Irony is cruel, humor is forgiving. Irony is humiliating; humor is humble.
Political questions are far too serious to be left to the politicians.
To save all we must dare all.
The beautiful is the symbol of the morally good.
Nothing so much prevents us from being natural as the desire to appear so.
Love eagerly believes everything it wants to.
Women forge themselves the chains with which men do not wish to burden them.
Some men make fortunes, but not to enjoy them; for, blinded by avarice, they live to make fortunes.
The extreme limit of wisdom — that’s what the public calls madness.
All man's misfortune consists in this one thing, his inability to remain quietly in one room.
It is human nature to think wisely and act in an absurd fashion.
The human mind cannot be absolutely destroyed with the body, but there remains of it something which is eternal.
And when you look long into an abyss, the abyss also looks into you.
Contempt for happiness is usually contempt for other people's happiness, and is an elegant disguise for hatred of the human race.
The condition of man... is a condition of war of everyone against everyone.
Force and fraud are in war the two cardinal virtues.
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