Learning, the destroyer of arrogance, begets arrogance in fools, even as light that illumines the eye, makes owls blind.

This dualityhas been reflected in classical as well as modern literature as reason versuspassion, or mind versus intuition. The split between the ‘conscious’ mind andthe ‘unconscious.’ There are moments in each of our lives when ourverbal-intellect sugges

Almost all four faults are more pardonable than the methods we think up to hide them

Man must not check reason by tradition, but must check tradition by reason.

Men are mortal, but ideas are immortal.

If pain could have cured us, we should have long ago been saved.

To believe in something, and not to live it, is dishonest.

Mostpeople I ask little from. I try to give them much, and expect nothing inreturn and I do very well in the bargain.

Quite often good things have hurtful consequnces. There are instances of men who have been ruined by their money or killed by their courage.

Outside noisy, inside empty.

Most ofour so-called reasoning consists in finding arguments for going on believingas we already do.

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