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.
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.
Man is a masterpiece of creation if for no other reason than that, all the weight of evidence for determinism notwithstanding, he believes he has free will.
Here take back the stuff that I am, nature, knead it back into the dough of being, make of me a bush, a cloud, whatever you will, even a man, only no longer make me me.
If all else fails, the character of a man can be recognized by nothing so surely as by a jest which he takes badly.
Man is to be found in reason, God in the passions.
That man is the noblest creature may also be inferred from the fact that no other creature has yet contested this claim.
Much can be inferred about a man from his mistress: in her one beholds his weaknesses and his dreams.
There exists a species of transcendental ventriloquism by means of which men can be made to believe that something said on earth comes from Heaven.
Man loves company - even if it is only that of a small burning candle.
I believe that man is in the last resort so free a being that his right to be what he believes himself to be cannot be contested.
The most perfect ape cannot draw an ape; only man can do that; but, likewise, only man regards the ability to do this as a sign of superiority.
Men still have to be governed by deception.
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