philosophy
“Every peasant has a lawyer inside of him, just as every lawyer, no matter how urbane he may be, carries a peasant within himself.”
“Use harms and even destroys beauty. The noblest function of an object is to be contemplated.”
“Warmth, warmth, more warmth! for we are dying of cold and not of darkness. It is not the night that kills, but the frost.”
“Man is said to be a reasoning animal... More often I have seen a cat reason than laugh or weep.”
“Consciousness is a disease.”
“We never know, believe me, when we have succeeded best.”
“The devil is an angel too.”
“Isolation is the worst possible counselor.”
“It is sad not to be loved, but it is much sadder not to be able to love.”
“Faith which does not doubt is dead faith.”
“The world is my representation.”
“The more we understand particular things, the more we understand God.”
“In all affairs it’s a healthy thing now and then to hang a question mark on the things you have long taken for granted.”
“To regard all things and principles of things as inconstant modes or fashions has more and more become the tendency of modern thought.”
“Not the fruit of experience, but experience itself, is the end.”
“The real is that whose characters are independent of what anybody may think them to be.”
“The production of belief is the sole function of thought.”
“To ridicule philosophy is truly to philosophize.”
“The eternal silence of these infinite spaces frightens me.”
“All nature is but art, unknown to thee.”