Thoughtful Thursday

"Just as those who practice the same profession recognize each other instinctively, so do those who practice the same vice."
- Marcel Proust

"Consistency requires you to be as ignorant today as you were a year ago." - Bernard Berenson

"From fanaticism to barbarism is only one step."
- Denis Diderot

"We are not satisfied to be right, unless we can prove others to be quite wrong."
- William Hazlitt

"Those who are believed to be most abject and humble are usually most ambitious and envious."
- Benedict Spinoza

"Many a man fails to become a thinker for the sole reason that his memory is too good."
- Friedrich Nietzsche

"Everything that emancipates the spirit without giving us control over ourselves is harmful."
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe