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.
Doubt must be no more than vigilance, otherwise it can become dangerous.
Once we know our weaknesses they cease to do us any harm.
Man is a masterpiece of creation if for no other reason than that, all the weight of evidence for determinism notwithstanding, he believes he has free will.
A person reveals his character by nothing so clearly as the joke he resents.
Nothing is more conducive to peace of mind than not having any opinion at all.
The American who first discovered Columbus made a bad discovery.
A book is a mirror: if an ape looks into it an apostle is hardly likely to look out.
We have no words for speaking of wisdom to the stupid. He who understands the wise is wise already.
Everyone is a genius at least once a year. The real geniuses simply have their bright ideas closer together.
Man loves company - even if it is only that of a small burning candle.
Every man has his moral backside which he refrains from showing unless he has to and keeps covered as long as possible with the trousers of decorum.
God created man in His own image, says the Bible; philosophers reverse the process: they create God in theirs.
Much can be inferred about a man from his mistress: in her one beholds his weaknesses and his dreams.
The human tendency to regard little things as important has produced very many great things.
What is called an acute knowledge of human nature is mostly nothing but the observer's own weaknesses reflected back from others.
Perhaps in time the so-called Dark Ages will be thought of as including our own.
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?
If you are going to build something in the air it is always better to build castles than houses of cards.
With most people disbelief in a thing is founded on a blind belief in some other thing.
