"One sees a kind of procession of Egyptian priests, whose heads are shaven and crowned with leaves; they wear the dres…"

"You do not need to trouble yourself to send me the other portions of your poem; one can judge the lion by his claws. …"

"There are two ways of seeing things. One is simply looking at them, the other means considering them attentively. Onl…"

"They do not realize that it is contrary to order and nature to place very large and massive things in high places or …"

"To judge well is very difficult. To do so requires both theory and practice."

"Reason, not appetite, should control the judgment."

"Virgil, above all others, has shown himself a great observer. So proficient is he that often, by the mere sound of wo…"

"What perspective towards the horizon meant to Poussin, the force of gravity meant to Courbet. (italics in original)"

"Pascal contrasts the objects of mathematics with other objects that are completely different, which he does not group…"

"An attempt has been made to prove, by means of selected passages from Pascal's Pensées, an apology for Christianity w…"