Prejudices are so to speak the mechanical instincts of men: through their prejudices they do without any effort many things they would find too difficult to think through to the point of resolving to do them.
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The Greeks possessed a knowledge of human nature we seem hardly able to attain to without passing through the strengthening hibernation of a new barbarism.
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What is called an acute knowledge of human nature is mostly nothing but the observer’s own weaknesses reflected back from others.
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Everyone is a genius at least once a year. The real geniuses simply have their bright ideas closer together.
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The pleasures of the imagination are as it were only drawings and models which are played with by poor people who cannot afford the real thing.
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God created man in His own image, says the Bible philosophers reverse the process: they create God in theirs.
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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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Much can be inferred about a man from his mistress: in her one beholds his weaknesses and his dreams.
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