This same philosophy is a good horse in the stable, but an arrant jade on a journey.
This same philosophy is a good horse in the stable, but an arrant jade on a journey.
Both wit and understanding are trifles without integrity. The ignorant peasant without fault is greater than the philosopher with many. What is genius or courage without a heart.
There is nothing so absurd or ridiculous that has not at some time been said by some philosopher. Fontenelle says he would undertake to persuade the whole public of readers to believe that the sun was neither the cause of light or heat, if he could only get six philosophers on his side.
The greatest object in the universe, says a certain philosopher, is a good man struggling with adversity yet there is a still greater, which is the good man that comes to relieve it.
A man who leaves home to mend himself and others is a philosopher; but he who goes from country to country, guided by the blind impulse of curiosity, is a vagabond.
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