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It is almost everywhere the case that soon after it is begotten the greater part of human wisdom is laid to rest in repositories.
We have no words for speaking of wisdom to the stupid. He who understands the wise is wise already.
Perhaps in time the so-called Dark Ages will be thought of as including our own.
Nothing can contribute more to peace of soul than the lack of any opinion whatever.
Nothing is more conducive to peace of mind than not having any opinion at all.
The noble simplicity in the works of nature only too often originates in the noble shortsightedness of him who observes it.
Here take back the stuff that I am, nature, knead it back into the dough of being, make of me a bush, a cloud, whatever you will, even a man, only no longer make me me.
We cannot remember too often that when we observe nature, and especially the ordering of nature, it is always ourselves alone we are observing.
What is called an acute knowledge of human nature is mostly nothing but the observer’s own weaknesses reflected back from others.
The Greeks possessed a knowledge of human nature we seem hardly able to attain to without passing through the strengthening hibernation of a new barbarism.