First there is a time when we believe everything, then for a little while we believe with discrimination, then we believe nothing whatever, and then we believe everything again – and, moreover, give reasons why we believe.
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Absolute faith corrupts as absolutely as absolute power.
All human beings should try to learn before they die what they are running from, and to, and why.
The main things which seem to me important on their own account, and not merely as means to other things, are knowledge, art, instinctive happiness, and relations of friendship or affection.
What others think of us would be of little moment did it not, when known, so deeply tinge what we think of ourselves.
If you would be known, and not know, vegetate in a village; If you would know, and not be known, live in a city.
Life is nothing but a competition to be the criminal rather than the victim.
Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers.