Genius: the superhuman in man.
Men use thought only as authority for their injustice, and employ speech only to conceal their thoughts.
If you leave the smallest corner of your head vacant for a moment, other people’s opinions will rush in from all quarters.
A pencil and rubber are of more use to thought than a battalion of assistants. To happiness the same applies as to truth: one does not have it, but is in it.
Because thought has by now been perverted into the solving of assigned problems, even what is not assigned is processed like a problem.
There is one spectacle grander than the sea, that is the sky; there is one spectacle grander than the sky, that is the interior of the soul.
I can well conceive a man without hands, feet, head. But I cannot conceive man without thought; he would be a stone or a brute.
The man who does not know other languages, unless he is a man of genius, necessarily has deficiencies in his ideas.
The freedom of thought is a sacred right of every individual man, and diversity will continue to increase with the progress, refinement, and differentiation of the human intellect.
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