Man Is So Perfectable And Corruptible He

We Often Have Need Of A Profound Philosophy To Restore To Our Feelings Their Original State Of Innocence, To Find Our Way Out Of The Rubble Of Things Alien To Us, To Begin To Feel For Ourselves And To Speak Ourselves, And I Might Almost Say To Exist Ourselves.

What Concerns Me Alone I Only Think, What Concerns My Friends I Tell Them, What Can Be Of Interest To Only A Limited Public I Write, And What The World Ought To Know Is Printed.

The Great Rule: If The Little Bit You Have Is Nothing Special In Itself, At Least Find A Way Of Saying It That Is A Little Bit Special.

There Is No More Important Rule Of Conduct In The World Than This: Attach Yourself As Much As You Can To People Who Are Abler Than You And Yet Not So Very Different That You Cannot Understand Them.

One's First Step In Wisdom Is To Question Everything - And One's Last Is To Come To Terms With Everything.