Marrying means doing whatever possible to become repulsed of each other

Rudeness is better than any argument; it totally eclipses intellect.

Men need some kind of external activity, because they are inactive within.

The ordinary method of education is to imprint ideas and opinions, in the strict sense of the word, prejudices, on the mind of the child, before it has had any but a very few particular observations. It is thus that he afterwards comes to view the world and gather experience through the medium of those ready-made ideas, rather than to let his ideas be formed for him out of his own experience of life, as they ought to be.

A pessimist is an optimist in full possession of the facts.

You are free to do what you want, but you are not free to want what you want.

This actual world of what is knowable, in which we are and which is in us, remains both the material and the limit of our consideration.