understanding Quotes

Justice and truth are too such subtle points that our tools are too blunt to touch them accurately.

Truly it is an evil to be full of faults; but it is a still greater evil to be full of them and to be unwilling to recognize them, since that is to add the further fault of a voluntary illusion.

We view things not only from different sides, but with different eyes; we have no wish to find them alike.

Men are so necessarily mad, that not to be mad would amount to another form of madness.

Words differently arranged have a different meaning, and meanings differently arranged have different effects.

Contradiction is not a sign of falsity, nor the lack of contradiction a sign of truth.

People are generally better persuaded by the reasons which they have themselves discovered than by those which have come in to the mind of others.

The supreme function of reason is to show man that some things are beyond reason.

The last proceeding of reason is to recognize that there is an infinity of things which are beyond it. There is nothing so conformable to reason as this disavowal of reason.

Reason commands us far more imperiously than a master; for in disobeying the one we are unfortunate, and in disobeying the other we are fools.