understanding Quotes

A commodity appears at first sight an extremely obvious, trivial thing. But its analysis brings out that it is a very strange thing, abounding in metaphysical subtleties and theological niceties.

On a level plain, simple mounds look like hills; and the insipid flatness of our present bourgeoisie is to be measured by the altitude of its great intellects.

Greek philosophy seems to have met with something with which a good tragedy is not supposed to meet, namely, a dull ending.

Reason has always existed, but not always in a reasonable form.

What is a weed? A plant whose virtues have never been discovered.

The invariable mark of wisdom is to see the miraculous in the common.

Science does not know its debt to imagination.

Everything in Nature contains all the powers of Nature. Everything is made of one hidden stuff.

Common sense is genius dressed in its working clothes.

Jesus Christ belonged to the true race of prophets. He saw with open eye the mystery of the soul. Drawn by its severe harmony, ravished with its beauty, he lived in it and had his being there. Alone in all history, he estimated the greatness of man.