knowledge Quotes

Every fact is related on one side to sensation, and, on the other, to morals. The game of thought is, on the appearance of one of these two sides, to find the other: given the upper, to find the under side.

For every benefit you receive a tax is levied.

Philosophically considered, the universe is composed of Nature and the Soul. Strictly speaking, therefore, all that is separate from us, all which Philosophy distinguishes as the 'Not Me,' that is, both nature and art, all other men and my own body, must be ranked under this name, 'Nature.'

Every burned book enlightens the world.

O Day of days when we can read! The reader and the book, either without the other is naught.

The civilized man has built a coach, but has lost the use of his feet.

Cause and effect are two sides of one fact.

We have listened too long to the courtly Muses of Europe.

People disparage knowing and the intellectual life, and urge doing. I am content with knowing, if only I could know.

Curiosity is lying in wait for every secret.