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| One might call habit a moral friction: something that prevents the mind from gliding over things but connects it with them and makes it hard for it to free itself from them. | | Uncategorized | |
| One must judge men not by their opinions, but by what their opinions have made of them. | | Uncategorized | |
| One's first step in wisdom is to question everything - and one's last is to come to terms with everything | | Uncategorized | |
| Perhaps in time the so-called Dark Ages will be thought of as including our own. | | Uncategorized | |
| Probably no invention came more easily to man than Heaven | | Uncategorized | |
| Rational free spirits are the light brigade who go on ahead and reconnoiter the ground which the heavy brigade of the orthodox will eventually occupy. | | Uncategorized | |
| Reason now gazes above the realm of the dark but warm feelings as the Alpine peaks do above the clouds. They behold the sun more clearly and distinctly, but they are cold and unfruitful. | | Uncategorized | |
| Some men come by the name of genius in the same way as an insect comes by the name of centipede - not because it has a hundred feet, but because most people can't count above fourteen | | Uncategorized | |
| Some people read because they are too lazy to think. | | Uncategorized | |
| The drive to propagate our race has also propagated a lot of other things | | Race | |
| The fly that doesn't want to be swatted is most secure when it lights on the fly-swatter. | | Uncategorized | |
| The grave is still the best shelter against the storms of destiny | | Uncategorized | |
| The great rule: If the little bit you have is nothing special in itself, at least find a way of saying it that is a little bit special. | | Uncategorized | |
| The highest point to which a weak but experienced mind can rise is detecting the weakness of better men | | Uncategorized | |
| The human tendency to regard little things as important has produced very many great things. | | Uncategorized | |
| 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. | | Uncategorized | |
| 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 | | Ability | |
| The most dangerous of all falsehoods is a slightly distorted truth | | Uncategorized | |
| The most dangerous untruths are truths moderately distorted. | | Uncategorized | |
| The noble simplicity in the works of nature only too often originates in the noble shortsightedness of him who observes it. | | Uncategorized | |
