"Cautiousness in judgment is nowadays to be recommended to each and every one: if we gained only one incontestable tru…"

"Prejudices are so to speak the mechanical instincts of men: through their prejudices they do without any effort many …"

"It is we who are the measure of what is strange and miraculous: if we sought a universal measure the strange and mira…"

"People often become scholars for the same reason they become soldiers: simply because they are unfit for any other st…"

"One has to do something new in order to see something new."

"If an angel were ever to tell us anything of his philosophy I believe many propositions would sound like 2 times 2 eq…"

"The sure conviction that we could if we wanted to is the reason so many good minds are idle."

"Food probably has a very great influence on the condition of men. Wine exercises a more visible influence, food does …"

"Man is to be found in reason, God in the passions."

"We can see nothing whatever of the soul unless it is visible in the expression of the countenance; one might call the…"