It is we who are the measure of what is strange and miraculous: if we sought a universal measure the strange and miraculous would not occur and all t… - Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

We accumulate our opinions at an age when our understanding is at its weakest.

Wouldn't things look much better for the human race if we no longer had history, at least no political history? The human being then would act more in accordance with the energies he possesses at any given time; for as things stand today, the example that now and then makes one person better makes a thousand others worse.

People nowadays have such high hopes of America and the political conditions obtaining there that one might say the desires, at least the secret desires, of all enlightened Europeans are deflected to the west, like our magnetic needles.