"The type of fig leaf which each culture employs to cover its social taboos offers a twofold description of its morality. It reveals that certain unacknowledged behavior exists and it suggests the form that such behavior takes."

"Characteristically, major social movements are spawned in obscurity at the periphery of public awareness, seem to burst suddenly and dramatically into public view, and eventually fade into the landscape not because they have diminished but because they have become a permanent part of our perceptions and experience."

"The passionate controversies of one era are viewed as sterile preoccupations by another, for knowledge alters what we seek as well as what we find."

"Genius is one of the many forms of insanity."

""Lawsuit mania"… a continual craving to go to law against others, while considering themselves the injured party."

"The ignorant man always adores what he cannot understand."

"The appearance of a single great genius is more than equivalent to the birth of a hundred mediocrities."

"Klopstock was questioned regarding the meaningof a passage in his poem. He replied, "God and I both knew what it meant once; now God alone knows.""

"Good sense travels on the well-worn paths; genius, never. And that is why the crowd, not altogether without reason, is so ready to treat great men as lunatics."

"Unfortunately, goodness and honor are rather the exception than the rule among exceptional men, not to speak of geniuses."