All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident..

Still, instead of trusting what their own minds tell them, men have as a rule a weakness for trusting others who pretend to supernatural sources of k….

It takes place, by and large, with the same sort of necessity as a tree brings forth fruit, and demands of the world no more than a soil on which the….

Just as the largest library, badly arranged, is not so useful as a very moderate one that is well arranged, so the greatest amount of knowledge, if n….

However, for the man who studies to gain insight, books and studies are merely rungs of the ladder on which he climbs to the summit of knowledge. As ….

The memory should be specially taxed in youth, since it is then that it is strongest and most tenacious. But in choosing the things that should be co….

It is a curious fact that in bad days we can very vividly recall the good time that is now no more; but that in good days, we have only a very cold a….

The fourfold root of the principle of sufficent reason is "Anything perceived has a cause. All conclusions have premises. All effects have causes. Al….

When a new truth enters the world, the first stage of reaction to it is ridicule, the second stage is violent opposition, and in the third stage, tha….

The common man is not concerned about the passage of time, the man of talent is driven by it..

Optimism is not only a false but also a pernicious doctrine, for it presents life as a desirable state and man's happiness as its aim and object. Sta….

One can never read too little of bad, or too much of good books: bad books are intellectual poison; they destroy the mind. In order to read what is g….

We forfeit three-quarters of ourselves in order to be like other people..

With people of limited ability modesty is merely honesty. But with those who possess great talent it is hypocrisy..

Every truth passes through 3 stages before it is recognized 1)ridicule 2) opposition 3) accepted as self-evident..

A man can do what he wants, but not want what he wants..

In our early youth we sit before the life that lies ahead of us like children sitting before the curtain in a theatre, in happy and tense anticipatio….

Physics is unable to stand on its own feet, but needs a metaphysics on which to support itself, whatever fine airs it may assume towards the latter..

If a relationship is perfectly natural there will be a complete fusion of the happiness of both of you-owing to fellow-feeling and various other laws….

Opinion is like a pendulum and obeys the same law. If it goes past the centre of gravity on one side, it must go a like distance on the other; and it….

There is only one inborn error. and that is the notion that we exist in order to be happy..