I believe that man is in the last resort so free a being that his right to be what he believes himself to be cannot be contested.
Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
What is the good of drawing conclusions from experience? I don't deny we sometimes draw the right conclusions, but don't we just as often draw the wrong ones?
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People often become scholars for the same reason they become soldiers: simply because they are unfit for any other station. Their right hand has to earn them a livelihood; one might say they lie down like bears in winter and seek sustenance from their paws.
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Man is always partial and is quite right to be. Even impartiality is partial.
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If this is philosophy it is at any rate a philosophy that is not in its right mind.
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