The little honesty that exists among authors is discernible in the unconscionable way they misquote from the writings of others.

No one writes anything worth writing, unless he writes entirely for the sake of his subject.

Ordinary people merely think how they shall 'spend' their time; a man of talent tries to 'use' it.

The less one, as a result of objective or subjective conditions, has to come into contact with people, the better off one is for it.

Women remain children all their lives, for they always see only what is near at hand, cling to the present, take the appearance of a thing for reality, and prefer trifling matters to the most important.

We forfeit three-quarters of ourselves in order to be like other people.

There is more to be learnt from every page of David Hume than from the collected philosophical works of Hegel, Herbart, and Schleiermacher are taken together.