understanding Quotes

There is an optical illusion about every person we meet.

Our admiration of the antique is not admiration of the old, but of the natural.

A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines.

Without electricity, the air would rot.

The method of nature: who could ever analyze it?

Every book is a quotation; and every house is a quotation out of all forests, and mines, and stone quarries; and every man is a quotation from all his ancestors.

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.

Every man supposes himself not to be fully understood or appreciated.

If the tongue had not been framed for articulation, man would still be a beast in the forest.

Who hears me, who understands me, becomes mine, a possession for all time.