The wisdom of one generation will be folly in the next.

The wisdom of one generation will be folly in the next.

To me there is in happiness an element of self-forgetfulness. You lose yourself in something outside yourself when you are happy; just as when you are desperately miserable you are intensely conscious of yourself, are a solid little lump of ego weighing a ton.

The greater part of critics are parasites, who, if nothing had been written, would find nothing to write.

The more elaborate our means of our common sense is, the less the common sense it becomes.

In completing one discovery we never fail to get an imperfect knowledge of others of which we could have no idea before, so that we cannot solve one doubt without creating several new ones.

But it is not given to every electrician to die in so glorious a manner as the justly envied Richmann.