Knowledge

Civilization should be something added to this, not substituted for it,

Poetry surrounds us everywhere, but getting it onto paper is something that unfortunately doesn't go as readily as looking.

This story is really nothing at all, and the scratch is nothing too, but from one thing and another you'll perhaps understand what I mean, namely that of late everything had a je ne sais quoi that made one feel like scribbling it down on paper.

What God hath made, into that let man inquire.

I count myself happy, in the search after truth, to have so great an ally as yourself, and one who is so great a friend of the truth itself.

I have collected many arguments for the purpose of refuting the latter; but I do not venture to bring them to the light of publicity, for fear of sharing the fate of our master, Copernicus, who, although he has earned immortal fame with some, yet with very many has become an object of ridicule and scorn.

The reading, not of all books, but especially of such as have been written by persons capable of conveying proper instruction, for it is a species of conversation we hold with their authors.

It does not suffice that the understanding be good - it must be well applied.

The first degree contains only notions so clear of themselves that they can be acquired without meditation.

This sort of men fancied that philosophy was to be studied like the Aeneid or Odyssey, and that the true reading of nature was to be detected by the collation of texts.

I shall only add a promise to peruse your book dispassionately, and with a conviction that I shall find in it much to admire.

Man is a growth by law, and not a creation by artifice, and cause and effect is as absolute and undeviating in the hidden realm of thought as in the world of visible and material things.

This truth, philosophy, though eagle-eyed In nature's tendencies, oft overlooks; And, having found his own mind, in the rest disclaims it.

Being the third son of the family and not bred to any trade, my head began to be filled very early with rambling thoughts.

So few people who can write know anything.

The reason why so few good books are written is that so few people that can write know anything.

We may believe what goes beyond our experience, only when it is inferred from that experience by the assumption that what we do not know is like what we know.

The most successful person is usually the one with the best information

If you know how to spend less than you get, you have the philosopher's stone.

The shortest answer is doing the thing