reflection Quotes

Although the most acute judges of the witches and even the witches themselves, were convinced of the guilt of witchery, the guilt nevertheless was non-existent. It is thus with all guilt.

In the course of history, men come to see that iron necessity is neither iron nor necessary.

We often refuse to accept an idea merely because the tone of voice in which it has been expressed is unsympathetic to us.

Thoughts are the shadows of our feelings - always darker, emptier and simpler.

To be ashamed of one's immorality: that is a step on the staircase at whose end one is also ashamed of one's morality.

Those who cannot understand how to put their thoughts on ice should not enter into the heat of debate.

What then in the last resort are the truths of mankind? They are the irrefutable errors of mankind.

Idleness is the parent of psychology.

Whoever has witnessed another's ideal becomes his inexorable judge and as it were his evil conscience.

When one has finished building one's house, one suddenly realizes that in the process one has learned something that one really needed to know in the worst way - before one began.