“Man is to be found in reason, God in the passions.”
                                        
                                        K 21 
Aphorisms (1765-1799), Notebook K (1789-1793)
                                    
“Man is to be found in reason, God in the passions.”
                                        
                                        K 21 
Aphorisms (1765-1799), Notebook K (1789-1793)
                                    
“The sure conviction that we could if we wanted to is the reason so many good minds are idle.”
                                        
                                        K 27 
Aphorisms (1765-1799), Notebook K (1789-1793)
                                    
“One has to do something new in order to see something new.”
                                        
                                        J 1770 
Aphorisms (1765-1799), Notebook J (1789)
                                    
“Much reading has brought upon us a learned barbarism.”
                                        
                                        F 144 
Aphorisms (1765-1799), Notebook F (1776-1779)
                                    
                                        
                                        F 123 
Aphorisms (1765-1799), Notebook F (1776-1779)
                                    
                                        
                                        E 92 
Aphorisms (1765-1799), Notebook E (1775 - 1776)
                                    
“The American who first discovered Columbus made a bad discovery.”
                                        
                                        G 42 
Aphorisms (1765-1799), Notebook G (1779-1783)
                                    
“Even truth needs to be clad in new garments if it is to appeal to a new age.”
                                        
                                        C 33 
Aphorisms (1765-1799), Notebook C (1772-1773)
                                    
“If this is philosophy it is at any rate a philosophy that is not in its right mind.”
                                        
                                        L 23 
Aphorisms (1765-1799), Notebook L (1793-1796)
                                    
                                        
                                        K 48 
Aphorisms (1765-1799), Notebook K (1789-1793)
                                    
                                        
                                        E 69 
Aphorisms (1765-1799), Notebook E (1775 - 1776)
                                    
“Courage, garrulousness and the mob are on our side. What more do we want?”
                                        
                                        E 32 
Aphorisms (1765-1799), Notebook E (1775 - 1776)
                                    
                                        
                                        F 47 
Aphorisms (1765-1799), Notebook F (1776-1779)