New opinions are always suspected, and usually opposed, without any other reason but because they are not already common.
The business of education is not to make the young perfect in any one of the sciences, but so to open and dispose their minds as may best make them capable of any, when they shall apply themselves to it.
The discipline of desire is the background of character.
We should have a great fewer disputes in the world if words were taken for what they are, the signs of our ideas only, and not for things themselves.
Where all is but dream, reasoning and arguments are of no use, truth and knowledge nothing. |
