“No delusion is greater than the notion that method and industry can make up for lack of mother-wit, either in science or in practical life.”
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I do not say think as I think, but think in my way. Fear no shadows, least of all in that great spectre of personal unhappiness which binds half the world to orthodoxy.
Science and literature are not two things, but two sides of one thing.
If a little knowledge is dangerous, where is the man who has so much as to be out of danger?
I protest that if some great Power would agree to make me always think what is true and do what is right, on condition of being turned into a sort of clock and would up every morning before I got out of bed, I should instantly close with the offer.