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Prejudices are so to speak the mechanical instincts of men: through their prejudices they do without any effort many things they would find too difficult to think through to the point of resolving to do them.
One must judge men not by their opinions, but by what their opinions have made of them.
Everyone is a genius at least once a year. The real geniuses simply have their bright ideas closer together.
The pleasures of the imagination are as it were only drawings and models which are played with by poor people who cannot afford the real thing.
God created man in His own image, says the Bible philosophers reverse the process: they create God in theirs.
What is the good of drawing conclusions from experience? I don’t deny we sometimes draw the right conclusions, but don’t we just as often draw the wrong ones?
Much can be inferred about a man from his mistress: in her one beholds his weaknesses and his dreams.
Never undertake anything for which you wouldn’t have the courage to ask the blessings of heaven.
I cannot say whether things will get better if we change what I can say is they must change if they are to get better.
Even truth needs to be clad in new garments if it is to appeal to a new age.