“Nothing can contribute more to peace of soul than the lack of any opinion whatever.”
“If this is philosophy it is at any rate a philosophy that is not in its right mind.”
“A book is a mirror: If an ass peers into it, you can't expect an apostle to look out.”
“If people should ever start to do only what is necessary millions would die of hunger.”
“With most people disbelief in a thing is founded on a blind belief in some other thing.”
“I am convinced we do not only love ourselves in others but hate ourselves in others too.”
“What most clearly characterizes true freedom and its true employment is its misemployment.”
“The sure conviction that we could if we wanted to is the reason so many good minds are idle.”
“With the majority of people unbelief in one thing is founded on the blind belief in another.”
“The worst thing you can possibly do is worrying and thinking about what you could have done.”
“The human tendency to regard little things as important has produced very many great things.”
“He who is in love with himself has at least this advantage -- he won't encounter many rivals.”
“There are people who believe everything is sane and sensible that is done with a solemn face.”
“Everyone is a genius at least once a year; a real genius has his original ideas closer together.”
“To do the opposite of something is also a form of imitation, namely an imitation of its opposite.”
“He was always smoothing and polishing himself, and in the end he became blunt before he was sharp.”
“If all mankind were suddenly to practice honesty, many thousands of people would be sure to starve.”
“We have no words for speaking of wisdom to the stupid. He who understands the wise is wise already.”
“Of all the inventions of man I doubt whether any was more easily accomplished than that of a Heaven.”
“He who is enamored of himself will at least have the advantage of being inconvenienced by few rivals.”
“Much can be inferred about a man from his mistress: in her one beholds his weaknesses and his dreams.”
“If you are going to build something in the air it is always better to build castles than houses of cards.”
“We say that someone occupies an official position, whereas it is the official position that occupies him.”
“If there were only turnips and potatoes in the world, someone would complain that plants grow the wrong way.”
“To err is human also in so far as animals seldom or never err, or at least only the cleverest of them do so.”
“There is no greater impediment to progress in the sciences than the desire to see it take place too quickly.”
“We are obliged to regard many of our original minds as crazy at least until we have become as clever as they are.”
“If all else fails, the character of a man can be recognized by nothing so surely as by a jest which he takes badly.”
“He who says he hates every kind of flattery, and says it in earnest, certainly does not yet know every kind of flattery.”
“That man is the noblest creature may also be inferred from the fact that no other creature has yet contested this claim.”