“Nothing is easier than self-deceit. For what each me wishes, that he also believes is true.”

“Nothing is easier than self-deceit.For what every man wishes,that he also believes to be true.”

“What a man wishes he generally believes to be true”

“As a vessel is known by its sound whether it be cracked or not, so men are proved by their speeches whether they be wise or foolish.”

“Was man wünscht, das glaubt auch jeder.”

“Beware lest in your anxiety to avoid war you obtain a master.”

“Since we are not yet fully comfortable with the idea that people from the next village are as human as ourselves, it is presumptuous in the extreme to suppose we could ever look at sociable, tool-making creatures who are from other evolutionary paths and see not beasts, but brothers, not rivals, but fellow pilgrims journeying to the shrine of intelligence...The difference... is not in the creature judged, but in the creature judging.”