Ein Buch ist ein Spiegel wenn ein Affe hineinsieht so kann kein Apostel heraus gucken.

Aujourd’hui, on cherche partout à répandre le savoir; qui sait si, dans quelques siècles, il n’y aura pas des universités pour rétablir l’ancienne ignorance?

Don’t judge a man by his opinions, but what his opinions have made of him.

I would give something to know for precisely whom the deeds were really done, of which it is publicly stated they were done ‘for the Fatherland’.

The thoughts written on the walls of madhouses by their inmates might be worth publicizing.

Libraries can in general be too narrow or too wide for the soul.

The highest level than can be reached by a mediocre but experienced mind is a talent for uncovering the weaknesses of those greater than itself.

It is almost impossible to carry the torch of truth through a crowd without singeing somebody’s beard.

I cannot say whether things will get better if we change; what I can say is that they must change if they are to get better.

The most dangerous of all falsehoods is a slightly distorted truth.

C nd ai de facut o lucrare, nu te g ndi mereu la întregimea ei; executa fragmentul pe care-l ai în fata, si c nd ai terminat cu el, mergi mai departe

When they have discovered truth in nature they fling it into a book, where it is even worse hands.

With most men, unbelief in one thing springs from blind belief in another.

…if we gained only one incontestable truth every ten years from each of our philosophical writers the harvest we reaped would be sufficient.

I am confident of my ability to demonstrate that one can sometimes believe in something and yet not believe in it. Nothing is less fathomable than the systems that motivate our actions.

If we thought more for ourselves we would have very many more bad books and very many more good ones.

Nothing is more conductive to peace of mind than not having any opinions at all.

Man…who lives in three places – in the past, in the present, and in the future – can be unhappy if one of these three is worthless. Religion has even added a fourth – eternity.

A person reveals his character by nothing so clearly as the joke he resents.

What I do not like about our definitions of genius is that there is in them nothing of the day of judgment, nothing of resounding through eternity and nothing of the footsteps of the Almighty.

Diogenes, filthily attired, paced across the splendid carpets in Plato’s dwelling. Thus, said he, do I trample on the pride of Plato. Yes, Plato replied, but only with another kind of pride.

Many are less fortunate than you’ may not be a roof to live under, but it will serve to retire beneath in the event of a shower.