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“The consequences of our actions take hold of us, quite indifferent to our claim that meanwhile we have 'improved.”
― Beyond Good and Evil
― Beyond Good and Evil
“A map of the world that does not include Utopia is not worth even glancing at, for it leaves out the one country at which Humanity is always landing. And when Humanity lands there, it looks out, and, seeing a better country, sets sail. Progress is the realisation of Utopias.”
― The Soul of Man Under Socialism
― The Soul of Man Under Socialism
“I know of no society in human history that ever suffered because its people became too desirous of evidence in support of their core beliefs.”
― Letter to a Christian Nation
― Letter to a Christian Nation
“Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.”
― Complete Essays, Vol. II: 1926-1929
― Complete Essays, Vol. II: 1926-1929
“Good sense is, of all things among men, the most equally distributed; for every one thinks himself so abundantly provided with it, that those even who are the most difficult to satisfy in everything else, do not usually desire a larger measure of this quality than they already possess.”
― Discourse on the Method of Rightly Conducting the Reason, and Seeking Truth in the Sciences
― Discourse on the Method of Rightly Conducting the Reason, and Seeking Truth in the Sciences
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