“We accumulate our opinions at an age when our understanding is at its weakest.”
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Even truth needs to be clad in new garments if it is to appeal to a new age.
The Greeks possessed a knowledge of human nature we seem hardly able to attain to without passing through the strengthening hibernation of a new barbarism.
Nothing is more conducive to peace of mind than not having any opinion at all.
Prejudices are so to speak the mechanical instincts of men: through their prejudices they do without any effort many things they would find too difficult to think through to the point of resolving to do them.