Man is always partial and is quite right to be. Even impartiality is partial.
Georg Christoph Lichtenberg Quotes
To do just the opposite is also a form of imitation.
In each of us there is a little of all of us.
There were honest people long before there were Christians and there are, God be praised, still honest people where there are no Christians. It could therefore easily be possible that people are Christians because true Christianity corresponds to what they would have been even if Christianity did not exist.
If all mankind were suddenly to practice honesty, many thousands of people would be sure to starve.
Perhaps in time the so-called dark ages will be thought of as including our own.
Nothing contributes more to a person’s peace of mind than having no opinions at all.
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?
Man loves company even if only that of a small burning candle.
I cannot say whether things will get better if we change; what I can say is they must change if they are to get better.
