All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident.
Every man takes the limits of his own field of vision for the limits of the world.
Religions are like fireflies. They require darkness in order to shine.
The discovery of truth is prevented more effectively, not by the false appearance things present and which mislead into error, not directly by weakness of the reasoning powers, but by preconceived opinion, by prejudice.
The alchemists in their search for gold discovered many other things of greater value.
Empirical sciences prosecuted purely for their own sake, and without philosophic tendency are like a face without eyes.
Two Chinamen visiting Europe went to the theatre for the first time. One of them occupied himself with trying to understand the theatrical machinery, which he succeeded in doing. The other, despite his ignorance of the language, sought to unravel the meaning of the play. The former is like the astronomer, the latter the philosopher.
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