I Have The Courage To Be Mistaken.

Everybody Allows That To Know Any Other Science You Must Have First Studied It, And That You Can Only Claim To Express A Judgment Upon It In Virtue Of Such Knowledge. Everybody Allows That To Make A Shoe You Must Have Learned And Practised The Craft Of The Shoemaker, Though Every Man Has A Model In His Own Foot, And Possesses In His Hands The Natural Endowments For The Operations Required. For Philosophy Alone, It Seems To Be Imagined, Such Study, Care, And Application Are Not In The Least Requisite

The History Of The World Is Not The Theatre Of Happiness. Periods Of Happiness Are Blank Pages In It, For They Are Periods Of Harmony--periods When The Antithesis Is In Abeyance.

Whatever Happens, Every Individual Is A Child Of His Time; So Philosophy Too Is Its Own Time Apprehended In Thoughts. It Is Just As Absurd To Fancy That A Philosophy Can Transcend Its Contemporary World As It Is To Fancy That An Individual Can Overleap His Own Age, Jump Over Rhodes.

God Is The Absolute Truth...

When Philosophy With Its Abstractions Paints Grey In Grey, The Freshness And Life Of Youth Has Gone, The Reconciliation Is Not A Reconciliation In The Actual, But In The Ideal World.