Men become richer not only by increasing their existing wealth but also by decreasing their expenditure.

Men create gods after their own image, not only with regard to their form but with regard to their mode of life.

Our problem is not that we aim too high and miss, but that we aim too low and hit.

For often, when one is asleep, there is something in consciousness which declares that what then presents itself is but a dream.

In a democracy the poor will have more power than the rich, because there are more of them, and the will of the majority is supreme.

If thinking is like perceiving, it must be either a process in which the soul is acted upon by what is capable of being thought, or a process different from but analogous to that. The thinking part of the soul must therefore be, while impassable, capable of receiving the form of an object; that is, must be potentially identical in character with its object without being the object. Mind must be related to what is thinkable, as sense is to what is sensible.

We do not know a truth without knowing its cause.