Those who want to row on the ocean of human knowledge do not get far, and the storm drives those out of their course who set sail.
From Franz Grillparzer
The ideas of an age are most abundant where they are not crowded by original ideas.
The uneducated person perceives only the individual phenomenon, the partly educated person the rule, and the educated person the exception.
If we notice a few errors in the work of a proven master, we may and even will often be correct; if we believe, however, that he is completely and utterly mistaken, we are in danger of missing his entire concept.
If someone were to think that trees are made to support the sky, they would all seem too short.
Mankind is getting smarter every day. Actually, it only seems so. At least we are making progress. We're progressing, to be sure, ever more deeply into the forest.
There shall be no slave in your home, male or female: Least of all the mother of your son.
No one will stop to help you when you are in need, but everyone forces opinions upon you that you do not require.
This searching and doubting and vacillating where nothing is clear but the arrogance of quest. I, too, had such noble ideas when I was still a boy.
Whoever places his trust into a system will soon be without a home. While you are building your third story, the two lower ones have already been dismantled.
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